Mount Davies (South Australia)

Mount Davies, is a mountain in the Tomkinson Ranges in the north-west corner of South Australia,[1][2] with an altitude of about 1,039 m above sea level.[3] The nearest settlement is Kaltukatjara (Docker River) just off the Great Central Road in the Northern Territory.

History

The Mount is in the traditional lands of the Pitjantjatjara one of the Anangu peoples of the central desert, who speak the Western Desert language. William Gosse (explorer) was the first European the see the Mount was W.C. Gosse on 27 August 1873, and he named it after Richard Davies Hanson Acting Governor from December 1872 to June 1873.[1]

Access to the areas was improved in the 1950s when the Mount Davies Road was constructed to provide access to a remote weather station, as part of the British nuclear testing program.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 South Australian Names.
  2. ↑ "Search result for "Mount Davies, MT" (N.B. please select the info" button for coordinate information)". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
  3. ↑ Mount Davies at Bozle.com.
  4. ↑ Shephard, Mark (1998). A Lifetime in the Bush:The biography of Len Beadell. Adelaide: Corkwood Press.

26°12′48″S 129°15′30″E / 26.2133885°S 129.2582379°E / -26.2133885; 129.2582379Coordinates: 26°12′48″S 129°15′30″E / 26.2133885°S 129.2582379°E / -26.2133885; 129.2582379

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.