Mount Barney

Mount Barney

Mount Barney is close to the border with New South Wales in southeastern Queensland, about 130 km from Brisbane in the McPherson Range. He is the fourth highest mountain in Queensland. The resulting by volcanic processes mountain is one of the focal peak and has two main peaks, the east and the higher western summit.

Geology

The 1,359 m high Mount Barney consists of Granophyr, a granite-like rock that penetrated ancient sandstone by a resting 350 million years ago and created a mountain with an altitude of 2,000 m. Originally from the Carboniferous sandstone eroded, while of the 23 million year old Granophyr resistance. In the development process and the nearby mountains Mount May, Mount Maroon, Mount Lindesay and Mount Ernest emerged resigned as glowing lava and solidified to form rhyolite.

History

Mount Barney is of great importance, since this is about a murder that is the mountain in relation to the Dreamtime of the local Aborigines. That's why many of them are denied the access to the mountain.

The first Europeans who came to the eastern summit of the mountain in January 1828, was in Patrick Logan, after the Logans Ridge is named. For his expedition members Charles Fraser and Allan Cunningham, the increase was too burdensome. After this expedition started in the 1840s, the population of this mountainous region by British colonists. According to reports began in the 1860s, first ascents of the mountain and walks of recreation seekers. The higher and more difficult -to-climb West summit was climbed from the early 1930s.

In 1947 the area around Mount Barney was put under protection and in 1984 part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia as Mount Barney National Park.

Furthermore, there are around Mount Barney hiking trails and camping facilities for tourists.