Legges Tor

Legges Tor
Legges Tor
	Legges Tor from the summit looking towards the Ben Lomond Ski Resort
Highest point
Elevation	1,572 m (5,157 ft)
Prominence	1,303 m (4,275 ft)
Isolation	140 km (87 mi)
Listing	2nd highest mountain in Tasmania
Coordinates	41°31′48″S 147°39′00″E / 41.53000°S 147.65000°E
Geography
	Legges Tor Location in Tasmania
Location	Northeast Tasmania, Australia
Parent range	Ben Lomond
Geology
Age of rock	Jurassic

The Legges Tor is the summit of the Ben Lomond mountain range in northeast Tasmania, Australia.^[4]

It is the second highest mountain in Tasmania^[2] and named after William Vincent Legge who explored the region.^[5] It is an unimposing feature on the plateau, being a rocky knoll behind the more spectacular cliffs of Giblin Fells, yet as the summit of the national park it is a popular destination with bushwalkers. A walking track leads to the summit from the ski village and from Carr Villa hut in the northern foothills of Ben Lomond.^[6]

Before Legges Tor was surveyed, Stacks Bluff (at the plateau's southern extremity) was thought to be the highest elevation on the Ben Lomond plateau. From 1905 to 1912 a full survey of Ben Lomond was conducted by Legge and his survey party. The survey party explored the highlands on the north of the plateau in 1907. Legge had long suspected that the north of the plateau was higher than the trigonometric station on Stacks Bluff although it is less obviously elevated from casual observation. Moreover, the area was, at the time, an area so remote and unexplored that Legge described it as 'untrodden as the distant ranges of the west coast'.^[7] Lyndhurst Giblin, a member of Legge's survey party, climbed and measured the true summit and named it after Legge and, in turn, the prominent bluff to the south of the summit was named for Giblin's father - Giblin Fells.^[7]^[8]

References

^ "LISTmap (Legges Tor)". Tasmanian Government Department of Primary Industries and Water. Retrieved 14 January 2008.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Legges Tor, Australia". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
^ "Legges Tor (TAS)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
Government of Tasmania
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^ Giblin, L. F.; Piesse, E. L. (1913). "The Height of Ben Lomond" (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania: 5–13.

^ Wilkinson, Bill (1994). The Abels: Tasmania's Mountains over 1100m high, Vol 1. Moonah, Tasmania: Tasmanian Outdoors Collection.

^ ^a ^b W.V. Legge (14 Jun 1907). [trove.nla.gov.au "The Ben Lomond plateau. Discovery of high land at the north end"]. The Examiner. Retrieved 20 February 2016.

^ "Legge's Tor highest peak". The Examiner. 24 Aug 1946. Retrieved 27 July 2015.

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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)¹

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)

¹ Highest summit elevation in Tasmania
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[height-1] "LISTmap (Legges Tor)". Tasmanian Government Department of Primary Industries and Water. Retrieved 14 January 2008.

[pb-2] "Legges Tor, Australia". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 5 June 2015.

[3] "Legges Tor (TAS)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.

[4] Government of Tasmania
.

[5] Giblin, L. F.; Piesse, E. L. (1913). "The Height of Ben Lomond" (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania: 5–13.

[6] Wilkinson, Bill (1994). The Abels: Tasmania's Mountains over 1100m high, Vol 1. Moonah, Tasmania: Tasmanian Outdoors Collection.

[W.V._Legge_1907-7] W.V. Legge (14 Jun 1907). [trove.nla.gov.au "The Ben Lomond plateau. Discovery of high land at the north end"]. The Examiner. Retrieved 20 February 2016.

[8] "Legge's Tor highest peak". The Examiner. 24 Aug 1946. Retrieved 27 July 2015.

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