Mount Olympus (Tasmania) Explained

Mount Olympus
Map:Australia Tasmania
Map Relief:1
Map Size:260
Label Position:right
Elevation M:1,472
Elevation Ref:[1] [2]
Prominence M:592
Isolation Km:6.35
Location:Tasmania, Australia
Coordinates:-42.04°N 146.11°W

Mount Olympus is a mountain in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park in Tasmania, Australia. It is the 24th highest mountain in Tasmania at above sea level[2] and is situated about South-East of Mount Gould[2] and about west of Lake St. Clair.[2]

History

In 1835 George Frankland climbed the mountain and named it Mount Olympus.[3]

Art

Mount Olympus was painted by the Australian landscape painter, William Charles Piguenit. It was purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1875 and was the Gallery's first oil painting acquisition,[4] "the first Australian work purchased by public subscription",[5] and the first work acquired by the gallery of an Australian-born artist.[6]

Another of Piguenit's Olympus paintings is held by the National Library of Australia.[7]

Flora

Nothofagus gunnii was first collected by Ronald Campbell Gunn in 1847 from Olympus.[8] It is "Australia's only cold climate winter-deciduous tree", is found mainly in areas above 800 metres with rainfall of more than 1800mm, and is one of the plants that indicates Gondwana.[9]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: LISTmap (enter "Mount Olympus") . Tasmanian Government Department of Primary Industries and Water . 12 June 2017 .
  2. 11524 . Mount Olympus, Australia . meters . 12 June 2017 .
  3. Web site: "A Walk in the Park": Tasmania - Leeawuleena (Lake St Clair) National Park . 24 December 2004 . He [Frankland] climbed up to the mountain on 12th February, 1835. ... So, he named Mt Olympus because he thought it truly was the place of the Gods, and he named a lot of other features using names from Greek Mythology . abc.net.au . Australian Broadcasting Corporation . 12 June 2017.
  4. Web site: Collection:Mount Olympus, Lake St Clair, Tasmania, the source of the Derwent . artgallery.nsw.gov.au . Art Gallery of New South Wales . 15 June 2017.
  5. Book: Disputed Territories: Culture and Identity in Settler Societies - From Habitat to Wilderness: Tasmania's Role in the Politicising of Place . 978-9-62209-692-9 . David S. Trigger . Gareth Griffiths . 92 . Roslynn Haynes . 2003 . Hong Kong University Press .
  6. 1 January 2014 . An Artist in the Wilderness: Piguenit and the Australian Landscape . Tasmanian Geographic . We need to focus on Piguenit's painting of Mount Olympus because it was the first work by an Australian-born artist to be acquired, in 1875, by the Art Gallery of NSW. . 11 . 15 June 2017.
  7. Web site: Mt. Olympus, Lake St. Clair, Tasmania, 1878 [picture] / W.C. Piguenit. ]. trove.nla.gov.au . National Library of Australia . 15 June 2017.
  8. Web site: HO:HO 6492: Preserved specimen of Nothofagus gunnii recorded on 1847-01-05 . biocache.ala.org.au . National Research Infrastructure for Australia . 15 June 2017.
  9. Web site: Deciduous beech, or Fagus, Nothofagus gunnii . parks.tas.gov.au . Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service . 15 June 2017.

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