Will the real Dome Hill please stand up!

[Ent]

It appears that Tassie has run out of names for peaks over 1000 metres with two, if not three Dome Hills. One is in the Eldon Range at a mere 1177 metres high and the other is in the Central Plateau and stands 1284 metres tall. I am aware that there are also two Mount Camerons so appears that our people naming peaks have run out of ideas. Yes it is probably a historical thing where people in one region did not communicate with people in another area but still interesting the recycling of names. Still trying to find that other Mount Wellington that is worth so many peak bagging points

Cheers

[vagrom]

Hear, hear! e.g: the number of locations known as Deep Creek. But didn't kow of an alternative Dome Hill. You can understand when it's name related. Was it the same Cameron? William Sorell left his mark all over the shop!

[Doonish]

And then there's Arthur...

[Ent]

Not familiar with the naming reason but the Cameron on the beach has been rename and climbing it has been banned for many years.

[JamesMc]

It's just as bad in Victoria. We have two Big Rivers and at least five Little Rivers. Not to mention 3 Spion Kopjes.

JamesMc

[walkinTas]

Yes it is probably a historical thing where people in one region did not communicate with people in another area but still interesting the recycling of names. Still trying to find that other Mount Wellington that is worth so many peak bagging points

It is more about the inaccuracy of early maps. And the lack of knowledge about what names had already been used. Also probably a bit to do with a lack of imagination. The simplistic names seem to get reused. There are four "Silver" falls.

Have a read here - Examiner June 4, 1894. "The more one sees of Tasmania the more is one convinced of the annoying insufficiencies, and even inaccuracies, of all existing maps, plans, and charts... But the greatest mistake of all, and the most easily rectified, is that which causes the confusion arising from so many heights in different portions of the island possessing the same names. It seems absurd to think that the Government issues map after map of the colony officially stamping dozens of places in like terms. The number of Brady's Looks Out, Sugar Loaves, Belmonts and Bell Mounts, Brown Mountains and Mount Browns, Blue Tiers and Denison Ranges is bewildering, so much so that when a person stands on any of these heights he seems to be spreadeagled over half the island."

[Ent]

Hi

Brilliant extract from 120 years ago that could easily apply today. We have Tasmap with tracks miss marked and still no modern electronic data released. Garmin maps with what appears to be a randomize function on mountain naming and placement.

At lest nowadays the average punter can identify such things. Does also explain when someone is writing about an area that I think a know but nothing makes sense. Pays to check the names.

I accept that just about every town will have a Main Street but be good if mountains could be renamed, even with something clumsy as North,South,East or West.

One of the stranger namings to me has been Pelion East and West. Makes you think Ossa should have been Pelion Central?

Cheers

[Doonish]

One of the stranger namings to me has been Pelion East and West. Makes you think Ossa should have been Pelion Central?

Yes, notwithstanding their compass-bookmarking either end of the range, you would perhaps have thought there was more Greek mythology (or geography) which could have been drawn upon.

[frenchy_84]

There is actually a Mount Ossa and Mount Pelion townships within 10km of each other in Queensland. Nearby a Mount Ossa NP,where I assume there is actually a mountain Mount Ossa unfortunately I dont have QLD topo maps to check