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English: Locator map for Cradle Mountain - Lake St Clair national park within Tasmania. View Cradle Mountain - Lake St Clair national park on OpenStreetMap. Made with OpenStreetMap data using Maperitive and Inkscape. Design partly derived from File:Australia Tasmania location map blank.svg and Wikipedia map design conventions.
Cradle Mountain is a locality and mountain in the Central Highlands region of the Australian state of Tasmania. The mountain is situated in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park . At 1,545 metres (5,069 ft) above sea level , it is the sixth-highest mountain in Tasmania .
Both Lake St Clair and Cradle Mountain were regarded by European settlers as attractive destinations, with tourist lodges at each location. [3] In the 1910s Gustav and Kate Cowle began campaigning for the area from Cradle Mountain to Lake St Clair to be a national park. It was declared a scenic reserve in 1922, a wildlife reserve in 1927 and ...
A wider overview of the area is available on the Tasmap Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair Map & Notes publication. To ascend the mountain, the most commonly used route is from the southern end of the Mersey Forrest Road on the eastern side of Lake Rowallan via the Moses Creek track. Then to Chapter Lake, Grail Falls, Chalice Lake and Tent Tarn.
The locality has an area of 839.4 square kilometres (324.1 sq mi), of which the lake occupies about 45 square kilometres (17 sq mi) in the south-east corner. [7] The Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park occupies all of the locality, plus the locality of Cradle Mountain to the north.
Mount Ossa is the highest mountain in Tasmania, with a summit elevation of 1,617 metres (5,305 ft) above sea level. [3] It makes up part of the Pelion Range within Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park in the Central Highlands region of Tasmania, Australia.
Mount Geryon is a mountain in the Central Highlands region of the Australian state of Tasmania. The mountain is part of the Du Cane Range and is situated within the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park. With two peaks, Mount Geryon North has an elevation of 1,516 metres (4,974 feet) above sea level [2] and is the twelfth-highest mountain ...
The mountain is situated in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park at the junction of the easternmost points of the Murchison and Mackintosh river catchments. At 1,559 metres (5,115 ft) above sea level it is the fourth highest mountain in Tasmania, [ 2 ] exceeding the height of the more famous Cradle Mountain by 14 metres (46 ft).