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States and Territories of Australia [1] State / Territory Highest point Elevation AHD Notes m ft; Ashmore and Cartier Islands: Cartier Island: 5 16 [2] Australian Antarctic Territory: Dome A: 4,093 13,428 [3] [4] [5] Australian Capital Territory: Bimberi Peak: 1,913 6,276 Christmas Island: Murray Hill: 361 1,184 [6] Cocos (Keeling) Islands ...
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.
Based on Strzelecki’s records, Australia’s highest summit was mapped. A cartographical mistake made in an edition of Victorian maps transposed Mount Kosciusko to the position of the present Mount Townsend. Later editions of the map continued to show the original location. [11] NSW maps did not make this mistake. [citation needed]
The MacDonnell Ranges, or Tjoritja in Arrernte, is a mountain range located in southern Northern Territory.MacDonnell Ranges is also the name given to an interim Australian bioregion broadly encompassing the mountain range, with an area of 3,929,444 hectares (9,709,870 acres).
Grampians National Park is home to one of Australia's longest running food and wine festivals, Grampians Grape Escape, held over the first weekend of May in Halls Gap every year. Launched in 1992, the Grampians Grape Escape is a hallmark event for Victoria and provides food and wine offerings by more than 100 local artisan producers, live music ...
The Seven Summits consist of the highest mountain peak on each of the continents. Different lists include slight variations, but generally, the same core is maintained. The seven summits depend on the definition used for a continent – in particular the location of the border of that continent. This results in two major points of variation.
The first humans to inhabit the Flinders Ranges were the Adnyamathanha people (meaning "hill people" or "rock people") whose descendants still reside in the area, [3] and the Ngadjuri (Ndajurri) people, [4] [5] They inhabited the range for tens of thousands of years [3] [5] before being dispersed by European settlement after colonisation.
Mount Barney is a mountain within the Scenic Rim Region in south-east Queensland, Australia. [1] It lies approximately 130 kilometres (81 mi) south-west of Brisbane, not far from the Queensland - New South Wales border, and forms part of the McPherson Range.