Place Names Register Extract
Mount Giles
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Print Extract | Search Again| Name | Mount Giles |
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| Type Designation | Mount |
| Place Id | 15491 |
| Place Type | Feature |
| Status | Registered |
| Date Registered | 5 August 1959 |
| Location (Datum GDA94) | |
| Latitude: -23° 37' S (Decimal degrees -23.6333) | |
| Longitude: 132° 52' E (Decimal degrees 132.8667) | |
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| Locality / Suburb | |
| Burt Plain | |
| Local Government Area | |
| MacDonnell Shire Council | |
| History/Origin | Mount Giles is believed to have been applied around 1873 by the South Australian Government after Ernest Giles, the explorer. Mount Giles first appears on maps compiled in: - 1874 showing the route of the Overland Telegraph Line through central Australia, and - 1876 by order of GW Goyder, Surveyor-General, from Ernest Giles original plans of his exploration of 1872 to the west of Alice Springs. Mt Giles is not shown on the map accompanying Giles' journal nor does he mention the name in his journal, however in his "Geographic Travels in Central Australia" of 1875, Giles mentions "a number of high mountains", but does not name them. In the Journal footnote, Ferd. von Mueller alludes to him (von Mueller) naming some of the peaks. Bessie Threadgill in her 1922 "South Australian Land Exploration 1856 to 1880" in a footnote on page 135 while referring to places named by von Mueller mentions "Other features left unnamed by Giles, Mueller left to the discretion of the SA Government." With reference to South Australian Archive dockets CSO 103/1873 and SGO 220/1873). WH Tietkens on 10 April 1889 in his journal of the "Central Asutralian Exploring Expedition" (South Australian Parliamentary Paper No 111 of 1890) records the aboriginal name for Mt Giles as Um-bat-thera. |
Register & Gazettal information
| Date | Gazettal | Comment |
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| 05/08/1959 | NTG34 |