Mount Wellington
Mount Wellington
Elevation	1,271 metres AHD (4,170 feet)
Location	Tasmania, Australia
Range	Wellington Range
Coordinates	42°53′57″S, 147°13′57″E
First ascent	25 December 1798 - George Bass (May have been a partial climb) 18 February 1804 - Robert Brown
Easiest route	Hike, road

Mount Wellington is the mountain on whose foothills is built much of the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is frequently snow covered, sometimes even in summer. It is often referred to simply as 'the Mountain' by Hobartians, and it rises to 1,271 metres AHD. Mount Wellingon File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... A topographical summit is a point on a surface which is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. ... The Australian Height Datum is a theoretical reference surface (datum) for altitude measurement in Australia. ... Emblems: Flora - Tasmanian Blue Gum; Mineral - Crocoite Motto: Ubertas et Fidelitas (Fertility and Faithfulness) Slogan or Nickname: The Apple Isle; Holiday Isle Other Australian states and territories Capital Hobart Government Const. ... The Himalaya as seen from the International Space Station A mountain range is a group of mountains bordered by lowlands or separated from other mountain ranges by passes or rivers. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... In climbing, a first ascent (FA) is the first climb to reach the top of a mountain, or the first to follow a particular climbing route. ... December 25 is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 6 days remaining for the year. ... 1798 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... George Bass George Bass, British naval surgeon and explorer of Australia (1771 – unknown, post 1803), was born at Aswarby, a hamlet near Sleaford Lincolnshire and was educated at Boston Grammar School. ... February 18 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1804 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Robert Brown (1773–1858) Robert Brown (December 21, 1773–June 10, 1858) is acknowledged as the leading British botanist to collect in Australia during the first half of the 19th century. ... Southern and northern Mount Everest climbing routes as seen from the International Space Station. ... A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. ... View of the Hobart downtown district and Mt Wellington from Constitution Dock Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. ... Emblems: Flora - Tasmanian Blue Gum; Mineral - Crocoite Motto: Ubertas et Fidelitas (Fertility and Faithfulness) Slogan or Nickname: The Apple Isle; Holiday Isle Other Australian states and territories Capital Hobart Government Const. ... The Australian Height Datum is a theoretical reference surface (datum) for altitude measurement in Australia. ...

The lower slopes are thickly forested, but criss-crossed by many walking tracks and a few fire trails. There is also a sealed but narrow road to the summit, about 22 km (14 miles) travel from the city. Halfway up this road is a picnic area called "The Springs", near the site of a chalet/health spa that was destroyed by bushfire in 1967. An enclosed lookout near the summit provides spectacular views of the city below and to the east, the Derwent estuary, and also glimpses of the World Heritage Area nearly 100 km (60 miles) to the west. km redirects here. ... A mile is a unit of length, usually used to measure distance, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, United States customary units and Norwegian/Swedish mil. ... Friends and family gather for a picnic in a public park in Columbus, Ohio, c. ... Backburning in Townsville, Australia. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... The Derwent is a river in Tasmania, Australia. ... Tasmania may be the smallest state in Australia, but it contains no fewer than 495 separate Protected Areas with a total area of 22,034 km² (land area: 22,020 km² – 32. ... A mile is a unit of length, usually used to measure distance, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, United States customary units and Norwegian/Swedish mil. ...

The Mountain has played host to some notorious characters over time, especially thebushranger 'Rocky' Whelan, who murdered several bushwalkers through the early 19th century. The cave where he lived is known appropriately as 'Rocky Whelan's Cave', and is an easy walk from the Springs.

Throughout the 19th and into the 20th centuries, the Mountain was a popular day-resort for Hobartains, who, with no TV, were forced to find alternate means or occupation. To that end, many excursion huts were built over the lower slopes of the mountain. However, none of these early huts survive as they were all destroyed during the diastrous bushfires of 1967, though modern huts are open to the public at the Springs, the Pinnacle, the Chalet - a picnic spot about halfway between the Springs and the Pinnacle - and elsewhere. Sadly, many of the more remote huts have suffered from vandalism, and some are in virtually derelict condition.

The road to the summit was constructed in the early 1930s as a relief scheme for the unemployed, an idea initiated by Mr. A.G. Ogilvie, the Premier of Tasmania of the day. While the road is officially known as the Pinnacle Drive, it was, for some time, also widely known among Hobartians as 'Ogilvies Scar' because at the time it was constructed 'the Mountain' was heavily logged and almost bare, and the road was an all-too-obvious scar across the already denuded mountain. Today the trees have grown again but the road is still noticeable. The road was opened in August 1937, after nearly two years of work, by Governor Sir Ernest Clark.

Hobart, view from Mount Wellington

From Hobart, the most distinctive feature of Mt. Wellington is the cliff of dolerite columns known as the Organ Pipes. Image File history File links Mount-Wellington-001. ... Image File history File links Mount-Wellington-001. ... Dolerite (from the Greek word doleros meaning deceptive), in petrology is the name given by Hauy to those basaltic rocks which are comparatively coarse grained. ...

The mountain significantly influences the city's weather, and intending visitors to the summit are advised to dress warmly against the often icy winds at the summit, which have been recorded at sustained speeds of over 157 km/h (97 mph), with raregusts of up to 200km/h. Kilometre per hour (American spelling: kilometer per hour) is a unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector). ... Miles per hour is a unit of speed, expressing the number of international miles covered per hour. ...

In February 1836, Charles Darwin, visited Hobart Town and climbed Mt. Wellington. In his book "The Voyage of the Beagle", Darwin described the mountain thus; "... In many parts the Eucalypti grew to a great size, and composed a noble forest. In some of the dampest ravines, tree-ferns flourished in an extraordinary manner; I saw one which must have been at least twenty feet high to the base of the fronds, and was in girth exactly six feet. The fronds forming the most elegant parasols, produced a gloomy shade, like that of the first hour of the night. The summit of the mountain is broad and flat, and is composed of huge angular masses of naked greenstone. Its elevation is 3100 feet above the level of the sea. The day was splendidly clear, and we enjoyed a most extensive view; to the north, the country appeared a mass of wooded mountains, of about the same height with that on which we were standing, and with an equally tame outline: to the south the broken land and water, forming many intricate bays, was mapped with clearness before us. ..." October 2, Charles Darwin returns from his voyage around the world. ... Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist [1] who achieved lasting fame by producing considerable evidence that species originated through evolutionary change, at the same time proposing the scientific theory that natural selection is the mechanism by which such change occurs. ...

The first weather station was set up on Mount Wellington in 1895 by Clement Lindley Wragge. 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Portrait of Clement Lindley Wragge. ...

The lookout building near the summit, with the main television and radio transmitter in the background.

Mt. Wellington was selected by many broadcasters as the site of broadcast radio and television transmitters because it provides line-of-sight transnmission to a much larger area of Hobart and surrounding districts than any other point in the region. The first television stations to transmit from there were TVT-6 (now WIN Television) and ABT-2 (the ABC) in 1960. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 186 KB) Summary The lookout near the summit of Mount Wellington, Tasmania. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 186 KB) Summary The lookout near the summit of Mount Wellington, Tasmania. ... TVT-6 was Hobarts, and Tasmanias, first television station, delivering its first official broadcast on 23 May 1960. ... WIN Television or WIN is an Australian regional television network. ... ABT-2 is a television station in Hobart, Tasmania. ... This is the current Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight! Please help improve it to featured article standard. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ...

A cable car development has been proposed for the mountain on various occasions, but public opposition has so far prevented any major developments. A cable car is any of a variety of transportation systems relying on cables to pull vehicles along or lower them at a steady rate, or a vehicle on these systems. ...

External links

• Mt. Wellington on Peakware