Bushwalk Australia

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?

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



Not that helpful - but a clue maybe

Assigned at Meeting Number 2.
Meeting 163: Approved from Names on Murchison Map Sheet - non-statutory decision.

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

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...

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