Mount Woodroffe

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Mount Woodroffe, called by the Aborigines of the Pitjantjatjara Ngarutjaranya, is the highest mountain in South Australia with 1435 m height.

Location

The Mount nearest places are Fregon ( Kaltjiti ) in about 57 km, Amata in Musgrave Park, 63 km and mimili in 123 km.

Mount Woodroffe is in the northwest of South Australia in the Musgrave Ranges. The existing granite and gneiss mountain rises 700 to 800 over the plain. Go to Mount Woodroffe leads the fortified Lasseter Highway, the last part of the course consists of 11 km of unpaved road.

History

The mountain, the William Gosse saw the first European on July 20, 1873 was named by him after George Woodroffe Goyder, a senior surveyors and early explorers in South Australia and the Northern Territory.

In the 1960s, the Mount Woodroffe the site of the Anglo-Australian Telescope ( AAT) should be, but this was in New South Wales to set up and is now as Siding Spring Observatory, among other astronomical observatories.