Mount Wellington (Tasmania)

Seen Mount Wellington from Sandy Bay from

Mount Wellington is the home mountain of Hobart, capital of Tasmania.

Several trails lead to the direct route to the summit. A street car travels around the mountain. With views of the entire Derwentmündung as well as the Tasman Peninsula, a basalt cliff, called a part of the organ pipes to the main attractions of the climb.

Mount Wellington is often, sometimes even snowy in the summer. Temperature differences of up to 10 ° C in comparison to the city are not uncommon, moreover, the mountain is shrouded the most of the year in clouds. At the annual freestyle climb a number of participants have died whose graves now dot the climb routes in the past century. The Tasmanian bushfires of 1967 destroyed a large part of the vegetation.

Mount Wellington is the largest volcano in Tasmania. Around him tarry additional older and smaller volcanic cones.