Pick this Mount

Not a mountain but it looks like the view west from Point Lilian on the Connie Sue.

Mount Worsnop?

Mount Beadell?
Barry

This feature has its very own 250k mapsheet named after it.

It is in WA.

Blackdown Tableland area?

Cheers
Jim

Mount Bannerman.

Another place with a view.

I think this photo is in the The little Desert National Park Victoria.

Frank is getting there with some help from Stephen.

In September 1875 Ernest Giles arrived at a small lake ‘150 yards in circumference and from two to three feet deep’ and called itQueen Victoria Spring. It was the first water his party had found in 17 days.

He also named the desert he was crossing the Great Victoria Desert. It is the largest desert in Australia. The tree pictured above is a Marble Gum and is unique to this desert.

A later explorer had difficulty locating the spring and climbed the prominent white sandhill.

There is a commemorative plaque on the post on top of the sandhill.

All of these features are in Western Australia.


So all we need now are the names of this later explorer and the sandhill.

Cheers, John

The Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition reached Queen Victoria Spring in September 1891. They had travelled 375 miles in 23 days without finding water, the ‘biggest journey on record without water’ . The leader reported he was ‘greatly disappointed’ to find ‘the spring had dried up’ - ‘alas for us, the magnificent spring, which we had come 400 miles to find, had ceased to exist, for no water was visible’ .

The leader named the prominent sandhill after the expedition’s geologist.

OK, I think I've found it - Streich Mound?
Named after Victor Streich.

Barry

That's a wonderful and wide playground!

Fred Newman, a Swedish prospector and explorer, reached Queen Victoria Spring 6 months before the Elder expedition. He sent a report of his trip to David Lindsay. He described the water as a soakage about 12 feet square. He also made an intriguing observation. ‘Newman saw great numbers of natives there. They made no secret of being cannibals’ .

Here is the relevant page written by David Lindsay:

Queen Victoria Spring is dried up

Cheers, John