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Mount Remarkable Summit Hike

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Mount Remarkable Summit Hike
Mount Remarkable Summit Hike
Mount Remarkable Summit Hike
Mount Remarkable Summit Hike
Mount Remarkable Summit Hike
Mount Remarkable Summit Hike
Mount Remarkable Summit Hike
Mount Remarkable Summit Hike
Mount Remarkable Summit Hike
Mount Remarkable Summit Hike
Mount Remarkable Summit Hike
Mount Remarkable Summit Hike
Mount Remarkable Summit Hike
Mount Remarkable Summit Hike
Mount Remarkable Summit Hike
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Joe's Road Melrose | Accessible from Melrose. Summit hiking trail commences at monument accessed via caravan park, Melrose, South Australia 5483, Australia

Mount Remarkable is a mountain in South Australia located in the Flinders Ranges about 250 kilometres north of the centre of the capital city of Adelaide and immediately north-west of the town of Melrose which is located at its base.The mountain has a height of 961 metres . It and the adjoining range is described as having “high strike ridges on quartzite” with “lower rounded ridges on shale” and as having a “cover of forest, parkland and some woodland”. Since 1972, it has been located within the boundaries of the protected area known as the Mount Remarkable National Park. The mountain’s summit can be reached via a walking trail known as the Mount Remarkable Summit Hike which starts in the town of Melrose and which is graded by the national park’s managing authority as being a “moderate hike’ of a distance of 12.2 km and that has a “round” time of five hours.The mountain is reported as being discovered by Colonial Europeans and named by Edward John Eyre either in 1839 or on 27 June 1840. Eyre is quoted as saying from the lofty way it towered above the surrounding hills I named it Mount Remarkable.
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