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Mount Olympus
Highest point
Elevation	1,472 m (4,829 ft)
Prominence	592 m (1,942 ft)
Isolation	6.35 km (3.95 mi)
Coordinates	42°02′24″S 146°06′36″E / 42.04000°S 146.11000°E / -42.04000; 146.11000
Geography
Mount OlympusLocation in Tasmania
Location	Tasmania, Australia

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 1,472 metres (4,829 ft) above sea level and is situated about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) South-East of Mount Gould and about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) west of Lake St. Clair.

History

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

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, "the first Australian work purchased by public subscription", and the first work acquired by the gallery of an Australian-born artist.

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

Flora

Nothofagus gunnii was first collected by Ronald Campbell Gunn in 1847 from Olympus. 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.

See also

• List of highest mountains of Tasmania
• List of mountains in Australia

References

1. "LISTmap (enter "Mount Olympus")". Tasmanian Government Department of Primary Industries and Water. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
2. ^ "Mount Olympus, Australia". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
3. ""A Walk in the Park": Tasmania - Leeawuleena (Lake St Clair) National Park". abc.net.au. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 24 December 2004. Retrieved 12 June 2017. He 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
4. "Collection:Mount Olympus, Lake St Clair, Tasmania, the source of the Derwent". artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
5. Roslynn Haynes (2003). David S. Trigger; Gareth Griffiths (eds.). Disputed Territories: Culture and Identity in Settler Societies - From Habitat to Wilderness: Tasmania's Role in the Politicising of Place. Hong Kong University Press. p. 92. ISBN 978-9-62209-692-9.
6. "An Artist in the Wilderness: Piguenit and the Australian Landscape". Tasmanian Geographic (11). 1 January 2014. Retrieved 15 June 2017. 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.
7. "Mt. Olympus, Lake St. Clair, Tasmania, 1878 [picture] / W.C. Piguenit". trove.nla.gov.au. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
8. "HO:HO 6492: Preserved specimen of Nothofagus gunnii recorded on 1847-01-05". biocache.ala.org.au. National Research Infrastructure for Australia. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
9. "Deciduous beech, or Fagus, Nothofagus gunnii". parks.tas.gov.au. Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service. Retrieved 15 June 2017.

v t e 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) 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) Heemskirk 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)
Highest summit elevation in Tasmania Category

• Mountains of Tasmania
• Central Highlands (Tasmania)
• Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park