Place Names Register Extract
Mount Sweet
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| Name |
Mount Sweet |
| Type Designation |
Mount |
| Place Id |
15824 |
| Place Type |
Feature |
| Status |
Historical |
| Date Registered |
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| Location (Datum GDA94) |
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Latitude:
-13° 30' S
(Decimal degrees -13.513395) |
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Longitude:
131° 58' E
(Decimal degrees 131.980496) |
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| Locality / Suburb |
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Burrundie |
| Local Government Area |
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Victoria-Daly Shire Council |
| History/Origin |
G.G. McLachlan named Mount Sweet after Capt. S.W Sweet who brought a party north on the "Gulnare" in 1870. Sweets Lookout is later believed to have replaced Litchfields "Mt. Hunchback"
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