Giblin Peak

Giblin Peak
Giblin Peak is located in Tasmania
Giblin Peak
Giblin Peak
Location in Tasmania
Highest point
Elevation1,569 m (5,148 ft)[1][2]
Prominence9 m (30 ft)[2]
Isolation0.34 km (0.21 mi)[2]
Listing3rd highest mountain in Tasmania[2]
Coordinates41°31′48″S 147°39′00″E / 41.53000°S 147.65000°E / -41.53000; 147.65000[3]
Geography
LocationNortheast Tasmania, Australia
Parent rangeBen Lomond

The Giblin Peak is a mountain of the Ben Lomond mountain range in northeast Tasmania, Australia.[4] It is the highest elevation on Giblin Fells, a prominent bluff south of Ben Lomond's highest elevation - Legges Tor.

With an elevation of 1,569 metres (5,148 ft) above sea level, it is the third highest mountain in Tasmania[2] and named after William Giblin, a previous Premier of Tasmania.[5][6][7][8]

Before the northern aspect of the Ben Lomond plateau was surveyed, Stacks Bluff (at the plateau's southern extremity) was thought to be the highest elevation on the Ben Lomond plateau. From 1905 to 1912 a full survey of Ben Lomond was conducted by Colonel W.V. Legge and his survey party. The survey party explored the highlands on the north of the plateau in 1907. Legge had long suspected that the north of the plateau was higher than the trigonometric station on Stacks Bluff although it is less obviously elevated from casual observation. Moreover, the area was, at the time, an area so remote and unexplored that Legge described it as 'untrodden as the distant ranges of the west coast'.[7] Lyndhurst Giblin, a member of Legge's survey party, climbed and measured the true summit and named it after Legge and, in turn, the prominent bluff to the south of the summit was named for Giblin's father - Giblin Fells.[7][8]

See also

References

  1. ^ "LISTmap (Giblin Peak)". Tasmanian Government Department of Primary Industries and Water. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Giblin Peak, Australia". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  3. ^ "Giblin Peak (TAS)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
  4. ^ "Giblin Peak". Placenames Tasmania. Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment, Government of Tasmania.
  5. ^ Cain, Neville (1981). "Giblin, Lyndhurst Falkiner (1872–1951)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 8. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  6. ^ Giblin, L. F.; Piesse, E. L. (1913). "The Height of Ben Lomond" (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania: 5–13.
  7. ^ a b c W.V. Legge (14 Jun 1907). [trove.nla.gov.au "The Ben Lomond plateau. Discovery of high land at the north end"]. The Examiner. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
  8. ^ a b "Legge's Tor highest peak". The Examiner. 24 Aug 1946. Retrieved 27 July 2015.


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