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Mount Hopeless (other)
Mount Hopeless is the name of several mountains: * Mount Hopeless (South Australia) * Mount Hopeless (New South Wales) * Mount Hopeless (Queensland) Mount Hopeless () is a mountain in the Murweh Shire of Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_nam ... * Mount Hopeless (Victoria) * Mount Hopeless (New Zealand) {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Hopeless (South Australia)
Mount Hopeless / Maiurru Mitha Vambata is in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, south-west of Lake Blanche. It is little more than a stony rise of 127 metres. It was over-named by the explorer Edward Eyre. In June 1840, Eyre left Adelaide with the aim of leading an expedition to the ‘centre’ of the Australian continent – the first colonist to make such an attempt. But in early September he was in despair. The land was dry. Most of the water he encountered was salty and it seemed to him that Adelaide was cut off from the interior by a great horseshoe shaped salt lake. On 2 September that year he climbed a stony rise which he named ‘Mount Hopeless’. As he explained, ‘cheerless and hopeless indeed was the prospect before us.’ The great salt lake, he went on, ‘was now visible to the north and to the east; and I had at last ascertained, beyond all doubt, that its basin, commencing near the head of Spencer's Gulf, and following the course of Flinders range (bendin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Hopeless (New South Wales)
Mount Hopeless is a mountain in the Central Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia. The mountain is situated between the headwaters of Doris Creek about south by east of Mount Goondel in the Oberon local government area. See also *List of mountains of Australia This is a list of mountains in Australia. Highest points by state and territory List of mountains in Australia by topographic prominence This is a list of the top 50 mountains in Australia ranked by topographic prominence. Most of these ... References {{New South Wales mountains , state=autocollapse Hopeless Hopeless ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Hopeless (Queensland)
Mount Hopeless () is a mountain in the Murweh Shire of Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_ .... It has an maximum altitude of 833 metres above the sea level. References Hopeless {{Australia-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Hopeless (Victoria)
Mount Hopeless () is a mountain in Victoria, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma .... It is in a range on the eastern side of the Tambo River near Mount Bindi, Mount Tongio, and Mount Elizabeth. See also * List of mountains in Victoria Hopeless {{Australia-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |