Mount_Munro

Mount Munro

Mount Munro

Mountain in Tasmania, Australia

40.3698°S 148.1173°E / -40.3698; 148.1173 Mount Munro is, at 715 metres, the highest point on Cape Barren Island in Bass Strait, Tasmania, Australia.[1] It was probably named after James Munro (c1779-1845), a former convict who had been a sealer and beachcomber in Bass Strait from the early 1820s and lived for more than twenty years on nearby Preservation Island, where he had several "wives"[clarification needed]. Cape Barren Island is now an Aboriginal community island.

References

  • N. J. B. Plomley & K. A. Henley, The Sealers of Bass Strait and the Cape Barren Island Community, Blubber Head Press, Hobart, 1990.
  1. [1]
    "Island Directory Tables Islands by Altitude". UN System-Wide Earthwatch Web Site. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). 18 February 1998. Retrieved 4 June 2011.


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