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Naming of High Dome

Postby guyburns » Sat 16 Oct, 2021 2:12 pm

As part of the upcoming Eldons Boys AV night in Ulverstone in November, I'm adding the finishing touches to a section on High Dome. I've got a whole heap of material to choose from including Chris Binks's negatives from a trip at Easter 1951 (led by Keith Lancaster); slides by Dave Pinkard and Jim Kerrison from a 1959 trip; and notes from 1966 written by Peter Sims describing how they cut the track from the Collingwood.

I want to find out about the naming. High Dome is not labelled on Charles Gould's 1860 map (https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-232322104/view), but The Amphitheatre is. On Sketch Map West Coast of Tasmania (~1950, below), High Dome appears. So somewhere between 1860 and 1950, the name was assigned.

Anyone have any further info?
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Re: Naming of High Dome

Postby Azza » Sun 17 Oct, 2021 6:46 pm

https://www.placenames.tas.gov.au/

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Not that helpful - but a clue maybe

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Re: Naming of High Dome

Postby JamesMc » Tue 26 Oct, 2021 10:23 am

I reckon that old map indicates High Dome at the location of what we now The Amphitheater, and Mt Thetis at Perrins Bluff.
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Re: Naming of High Dome

Postby icefest » Tue 26 Oct, 2021 3:49 pm

JamesMc wrote:I reckon that old map indicates High Dome at the location of what we now The Amphitheater, and Mt Thetis at Perrins Bluff.

Mount Gould is also placed at the location of mt geryon/the acropolis at that map...
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Re: Naming of High Dome

Postby north-north-west » Fri 29 Oct, 2021 1:05 pm

it's one of those questions that's always bugged me: why High Dome, when there are two domes and a spire?
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