Musgrave Ranges

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The Musgrave Ranges are a mountain range in Central Australia. The mountain range stretches out on the border of South Australia and the Northern Territory and extends to Western Australia. It is bordered by the Great Victoria Desert in the south and the Gibson Desert in the north. The highest peak of this mountain area, Mount Woodroffe, is the highest mountain in South Australia with a height of 1435 m.

The Musgrave Ranges form a collection of granite mountains in the north-western South Australia, located parallel to the Northern Territory in a length of 210 kilometers. Much of the mountain reaches a height of 1100 m. The mountain range was sighted in 1873 by William Gosse and Ernest Giles and named after Sir Anthony Musgrave, the Vice Governor of South Australia. In this mountainous country lived the traditional owners, the Pitjantjatjara Aborigines, the angeigneten the European settlers. In the 1980s, it was handed over to them again that there traditionalle use several places to initiation.

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