Mount Jellore High Range, New South Wales, Australia
By
Geocaching Australia on 01-Sep-09. Waypoint TP2032
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | TrigPoint |
| Container: | Other |
| Coordinates: | S34° 22.172' E150° 22.228' (WGS 84) |
| 56H 258193E 6193735N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 809 m |
| Local Government Area: | Wingecarribee |
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Description
The nation's first trig.
In the 1820s, much of New South Wales remained a mystery to the European arrivals. To aid the mapping of the country, the science of trigonometic surveying was introduced by Major Thomas Mitchell who had been brought out to the colony as Assistant Surveyor General of New South Wales. The freestanding peak of Mount Jellore was selected as the first trigonometric summit for his triangulation survey of the countryside. Mitchell headed south from Sydney with a small party and camped at the base of the basalt, making daily excursions to the top. While his convict crew cleared the summit of trees, Mitchell plotted and measured distant peaks and sketched the skyline. Just as Mitchell concluded his work on Mount Jellore, news arrived that John Oxley, the Surveyor General of NSW, had died in Camden. Mitchell inherited the post and exercised it for the next 27 years until his death. So, no doubt Mount Jellore was a little bit special to him too.
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Addtional Information
Source: Geoscience Australia
Type: Horizontal Control Point
Elevation: 834.3
PID: 2950547
Other Information: Geoscience Australia
Logs
Standby while Throsbyonchurch finds our photos to add to our logs.
Standby while Throsbyonchurch finds our photos to add to our logs.
Got to find the photo on my computer now ..... standby...
Lovely views from around here, I didn’t know about the history of it until I was up here.
TFTC Wilbert67
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan
Discovered with ATCF
TFTC
I was off track coming to the trig and leaving the trig, so I can't comment on the more usual route. But I did love the walk I did today for the sense of remoteness and wildness. One feature I experienced after leaving Mt Jellore was a 200m rockslide - you can see landslides and rockslides all around the Nattai River.
I also found a quarter of a vane a few hundred metres from the trig as I was descending. Not really sure how it ended up so far from the summit.
Found at 3.21pm.
Don't underestimate the difficulty of getting to this TP. It's a 10-12km (depends on where you park) round trip with some serious ascents and descents. Walk starts from an un-marked fire trail off Soapy Flat Road in Jellore State Forest.
We parked in a clearing off the fire trail and headed towards Jellore Ck. The fire trail continues for a few k's before dropping into the valley where it becomes a footpad and descends steeply into a branch of Jellore Ck. There is a heap of flag tape but the footpad is well worn and easy to follow. The last bit of descent into Jellore Ck is rope assisted and so is the first section of ascent back out of the creek. A long climb out of the creek brings you to a spur off the main ridge. You continue along the top of the spur till you meet the main fire trail. Turn right onto the fire trail and continue on to the base of Mt Jellore. The ascent of Jellore is a doozy. Initially the trail goes straight up but then becomes a series of switchbacks. Once at the top continue on past the trig and take in the superb views from the north side of the mountain across the Nattai Wilderness.
The return journey is just a reverse of the outward. After all the up and down involved in this walk the ascent back out of Jellore Ck on the way out is very exhausting.
Michael (GPS).
Useful waypoints:
Fire trail turn off from Soapy Flat Rd: -34 23.659,150 21.110 (Google Streetview is old and the fire trail looks a lot different now).
Start of descent into Jellore Ck: -34 23.120,150 21.193 (Track drops away sharply. Burnt out car down the trail is a handy marker).
Top of ascent out of Jellore Ck: -34 22.748,150 21.254
Fire trail intersection: -34 22.657,150 21.088
Base of track up Mt Jellore: -34 22.302,150 22.057
