Mount Lindesay (Queensland)

Mount Lindesay

The 1177 m high Mount Lindesay is located at the common boundary of Queensland and New South Wales, about 140 km south-west of Brisbane in Australia. The mountain is the remnant of a lava flow, the solidified 23 million years ago.

Geology

The Mount Lindesay has a remarkably graded summit, which is reminiscent of remnants of volcanic lava flows of the nearby Focal Peak, a shield volcano. In fact, the Mount Lindesay and the westward -lying Mount Glennie, however remnants of a horizontally flowing and red-hot rock river, which was formed by the Mount Gillies Volcanics, possibly from Mount Gillies. Lava and was solidified to rhyolite freigewittert over time.

Location

The Mount Lindesay is located in Mount Barney National Park in Queensland and in the Border Ranges National Park in New South Wales. Away from the northern slopes of the rest of the mountain is covered with dense rainforest. The summit is often covered by clouds and haze.

On the west side of the Mount Lindesay Highway takes you past the mountain.

History

The traditional owners of the Mount Lindesay were the Aborigines of Githabul. They were successful back transferred as native title with 1120 km ² of land on February, 2007, the Mountain. The mountain is for them of special ceremonial significance.

The first Europeans who saw the mountain from a distance, were Patrick Logan, the Scottish botanist Charles Fraser and Allan Cunningham ( botanist ), which climbed to an expedition in 1828 to Mount Barney. Francis Roberts, an explorer, and his assistant Isiah Rowland were the first Europeans who traversed the area of Mt. The mountain was named by Cunningham after a British botanist named Hooker Mount Hooker. Later it was renamed after Sir Patrick Lindesay, a Governor of New South Wales.

Mountaineering

The first Europeans who climbed the mountain in May 1872 were Thomas de Montmorency Murray - Prior and Phillip Walter Pears. However, the Aborigines had climbed the mountain for thousands of years. This was followed by other European climbers and the first women on the mountain were Jean Easton and Nora Dimes from Brisbane in March 1931.