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Mt Townsend is Australia's second highest mountain, adjacent to and almost the same height as Mt Kosciuszko, and Strzelecki saw that the neighbouring peak was slightly higher. In the presence of Macarthur he named the higher summit Mount Kosciusko after the famous Polish-Lithuanian military leader who died in 1817.
Castle Cliff, at 986 metres (3,235 ft) Mount Solitary, at 950 metres ... Mount Meharry (at 1,249 metres above sea level, the highest peak in Western Australia)
The cliffs are subjected to high-energy waves from the Southern Ocean, and are receding northwards. The same formation extends from Eucla to Madura in Western Australia where it forms the scarp separating the Roe Plains from the Hampton Tableland , but in this section the coastline has moved away from the cliffs.
All of mainland Australia's alpine areas, including its highest mountain, Mount Kosciuszko (2,228 metres or 7,310 feet AHD), are part of this range, called the Main Range. [4] The highest areas in southern New South Wales and eastern Victoria are known as the Australian Alps .
Unlike the high mountain ranges found in places like the Rockies (highest peak 4,401 m (14,439 ft)), the European Alps (highest peak 4,808 m (15,774 ft)) or the Himalayas (highest peak 8,848 m (29,029 ft)), the Australian Alps were not formed by two continental plates colliding and pushing up the Earth's rocky mantle to form jagged, rocky peaks.
Mount Bogong from Tawonga Gap lookout Staircase Spur after the July 2014 blizzards Cleve Cole Hut. Mount Bogong, / ˈ b oʊ ɡ ɒ ŋ / located in the Alpine National Park and part of the Victorian Alps of the Great Dividing Range, is the highest mountain in Victoria, Australia, at 1,986 metres (6,516 ft) above sea level.
Hangman cliffs, Devon 318 m above Bristol Channel is the highest sea cliff in England; Benwee Head Cliffs, Erris, County Mayo, Ireland, 304 m above Atlantic Ocean; Dingli Cliffs, Malta, 250 m above Mediterranean sea; High Cliff, between Boscastle and St Gennys, 223 m above Celtic Sea [2] Cliffs of Moher, Ireland, 217 m above Atlantic Ocean
The highest point in the Blue Mountains, as it is now defined, is an unnamed point with an elevation of 1,189 m (3,901 ft) AHD, located 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) north-east of Lithgow. However, the highest point in the broader region that was once considered to be the Blue Mountains is Mount Bindo, with an elevation 1,362 m (4,469 ft) AHD. [5]