Mount Eccles

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Mount Eccles is an inactive volcano, which consists of lavas of different volcanic eruptions and is located in southwest Victoria, Australia near the town of Macarthur.

Description

The name of the mountain, which gave him the Aborigines of Gunditjmara, is budj Bim, which means high head. The approximately conical mountain reaches a height of 178 m.

Numerous eruptions occurred in the period 30000-20000 years ago. In the crater of the volcano is the Lake Surprise. The eruptions with lava flows changed the water management and wetlands in the landscape. The volcanic mountain is closest to Mount Napier, situated at a distance of 25 km north-east of Mount Eccles.

The mountain was named in 1836 by the explorer Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Mount Eeles by William Eeles from the 95th Regiment of Foot, who fought with Mitchell together in the Napoleonic wars on the Iberian Peninsula. Due to a clerical error, the name changed in 1845 in Eccles.

The Mount Eccles National Park and Lake Surprise covers an area of 61.2 km ² and contains interesting geological phenomena such as lava flows, lava tubes, quarries, ash hills and crater lakes.

As in the landscape around the mountain were the oldest and largest aquaculture Aboriginal, the only stone buildings of the Australian Aborigines and Aboriginal Mission Station, the Australian Federal Government has an area that budj Bim National Heritage Landscape in the Australian National Heritage List as a historical monument of national importance identified.

The Dreamtime legends of the local Koori report of volcanic eruptions of the past.

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