Giblin Peak

Giblin Peak
Giblin Peak Location in Tasmania
Highest point
Elevation	1,569 m (5,148 ft)^[1]^[2]
Prominence	9 m (30 ft)^[2]
Isolation	0.34 km (0.21 mi)^[2]
Listing	3rd highest mountain in Tasmania^[2]
Coordinates	41°31′48″S 147°39′00″E / 41.53000°S 147.65000°E / -41.53000; 147.65000^[3]
Geography
Location	Northeast Tasmania, Australia
Parent range	Ben Lomond

The Giblin Peak is a mountain of the Ben Lomond mountain range in northeast Tasmania, Australia.^[4] It is the highest elevation on Giblin Fells, a prominent bluff south of Ben Lomond's highest elevation - Legges Tor.

With an elevation of 1,569 metres (5,148 ft) above sea level, it is the third highest mountain in Tasmania^[2] and named after William Giblin, a previous Premier of Tasmania.^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]

Before the northern aspect of the Ben Lomond plateau was surveyed, Stacks Bluff (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 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'.^[7] Lyndhurst Giblin, 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.^[7]^[8]

References

^ "LISTmap (Giblin Peak)". Tasmanian Government Department of Primary Industries and Water. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Giblin Peak, Australia". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
^ "Giblin Peak (TAS)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
^ "Giblin Peak". Placenames Tasmania. Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment, Government of Tasmania.
^ Cain, Neville (1981). "Giblin, Lyndhurst Falkiner (1872–1951)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 8. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
^ Giblin, L. F.; Piesse, E. L. (1913). "The Height of Ben Lomond" (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania: 5–13.
^ ^a ^b ^c W.V. Legge (14 Jun 1907). [trove.nla.gov.au "The Ben Lomond plateau. Discovery of high land at the north end"]. The Examiner. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Legge's Tor highest peak". The Examiner. 24 Aug 1946. Retrieved 27 July 2015.

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Parks Tasmania

Mountains in Tasmania, Australia

Arthur Range

Eastern	Federation (1,224 m or 4,016 ft)

Ben Lomond

Legges Tor (1,572 m or 5,157 ft)
Giblin Peak (1,569 m or 5,148 ft)
Markham Heights (1,542 m or 5,059 ft)
Hamilton Crags (1,540 m or 5,052 ft)
Stacks Bluff (1,527 m or 5,010 ft)
Misery Bluff (1,520 m or 4,987 ft)
Ossian’s Throne (1,498 m or 4,915 ft)
Coalmine Crag (1,498 m or 4,915 ft)
Magnet Crag (1,464 m or 4,803 ft)
Victoria (1,213 m or 3,980 ft)

Du Cane Range

unnamed peak (1,520 m or 4,987 ft)
Geryon North (1,516 m or 4,974 ft)
Massif (1,514 m or 4,967 ft)
Geryon South (1,509 m or 4,951 ft)
Gould (1,485 m or 4,872 ft)
Castle Crag (1,482 m or 4,862 ft)
Thetis (1,482 m or 4,862 ft)
The Acropolis (1,481 m or 4,859 ft)
Achilles (1,363 m or 4,472 ft)

Eldon Range

Eldon Peak (1,440 m or 4,724 ft)
Eldon Bluff

Great Western Tiers

Ironstone (1,443 m or 4,734 ft)

Pelion Range

Ossa (1,614 m or 5,295 ft)¹
Pelion West (1,560 m or 5,118 ft)
Pelion East (1,461 m or 4,793 ft)

Wellington Range

Kunanyi / Wellington (1,269 m or 4,163 ft)

West Coast Range

Murchison (1,275 m or 4,183 ft)
Jukes (1,168 m or 3,832 ft)
Sedgwick (1,147 m or 3,763 ft)
Owen (1,146 m or 3,760 ft)
Sorell (1,144 m or 3,753 ft)
Read (1,124 m or 3,688 ft)
Proprietary Peak (1,103 m or 3,619 ft)
Hamilton (1,103 m or 3,619 ft)
Darwin (1,031 m or 3,383 ft)

<span style="color:black">Heemskirk</span>	Agnew (848 m or 2,782 ft) Dundas (1,143 m or 3,750 ft) Heemskirk (751 m or 2,464 ft) Zeehan (701 m or 2,300 ft)
Sticht	unnamed peak (1,080 m or 3,543 ft)
Tyndall	Geikie (1,191 m or 3,907 ft) Tyndall (1,179 m or 3,868 ft)

Not in a defined range

Mount Olympus (1,472 m or 4,829 ft)
Frenchmans Cap (1,446 m or 4,744 ft)
Barrow (1,406 m or 4,613 ft)

¹ Highest summit elevation in Tasmania

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