The Giblin Peak is a
mountain
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of the
Ben Lomond
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mountain range
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in northeast
Tasmania
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,
Australia
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. It is the highest elevation on Giblin Fells, a prominent bluff south of Ben Lomond's highest elevation - Legges Tor.
With an elevation of
above sea level
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, it is the
third highest mountain in Tasmania
and named after
William Giblin
William Robert Giblin (4 November 1840 – 17 January 1887) was Premier of Tasmania (Australia) from 5 March 1878 until 20 December 1878 and from 1879 until 1884.
Early life
Giblin was born at Hobart, Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania), son of W ...
, a previous Premier of Tasmania.
[W.V. Legge (14 Jun 1907). rove.nla.gov.au "The Ben Lomond plateau. Discovery of high land at the north end" The Examiner. Retrieved 20 February 2016.]["Legge's Tor highest peak". The Examiner. 24 Aug 1946. Retrieved 27 July 2015.]
Before the northern aspect of the Ben Lomond plateau was surveyed,
Stacks Bluff
The Stacks Bluff is a peak in northeast Tasmania, Australia. The mountain is situated on the Ben Lomond plateau.
At above sea level, it is the ninth highest mountain in Tasmania, and is a feature visible throughout the Tasmanian Midlands - ...
(at the plateau's southern extremity) was thought to be the highest elevation on the Ben Lomond plateau. From 1905 to 1912 a full survey of Ben Lomond was conducted by Colonel W.V.
Legge Legge () is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Alexander Legge (1866–1933), US businessman, president of International Harvester
* Anthony Legge (1939–2013), British archaeologist specialized in zooarchaeology
* Arthur Kaye Le ...
and his survey party.
The survey party explored the highlands on the north of the plateau in 1907. Legge had long suspected that the north of the plateau was higher than the trigonometric station on Stacks Bluff although it is less obviously elevated from casual observation. Moreover, the area was, at the time, an area so remote and unexplored that Legge described it as 'untrodden as the distant ranges of the west coast'.
Lyndhurst Giblin
Lyndhurst Falkiner Giblin, (29 November 1872 – 1 March 1951) was an Australian statistician and economist. He was an unsuccessful gold prospector, played rugby union for England, and fought in the First World War.
Biography
Giblin was th ...
, a member of Legge's survey party, climbed and measured the true summit and named it after Legge and, in turn, the prominent bluff to the south of the summit was named for
Giblin's father - Giblin Fells.
See also
*
List of highest mountains of Tasmania
The Australian island state of Tasmania has a diverse range of geography but a prominent feature is the mountains of the island.
Overall Tasmania is comparatively low-lying with the highest point at . Tasmania has ten peaks over the height of . ...
References
External links
Parks Tasmania
Mountains of Tasmania
North East Tasmania
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