Mount Rooper, Queensland

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Mount Rooper
Queensland
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Looking across the Conway National Park towards Long Island from the Mount Rooper Lookout, 2008
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Mount Rooper
Coordinates 20°16′16″S148°46′04″E / 20.2711°S 148.7677°E / -20.2711; 148.7677 Coordinates: 20°16′16″S148°46′04″E / 20.2711°S 148.7677°E / -20.2711; 148.7677
Population0 (2016 census) [1]
 • Density0.00/km2 (0.00/sq mi)
Postcode(s) 4802
Area15.8 km2 (6.1 sq mi)
Location
LGA(s) Whitsunday Region
State electorate(s) Whitsunday
Federal Division(s) Dawson
Suburbs around Mount Rooper:
Coral Sea Coral Sea Coral Sea
Flametree Mount Rooper Coral Sea
Cape Conway Coral Sea Shute Harbour

Mount Rooper is a coastal locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. [2] In the 2016 census, Mount Rooper had no population. [1]

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Geography

Mount Rooper is a mountainous headland with three main peaks which are (from north to south) Notch Hill, Mount Merkara, and Mount Rooper (221 metres). Notch Hill is 347 metres (1,138 ft) high and was named in May 1881 by Captain John Fiot Lee Pearse Maclear (Royal Navy) of HMS Alert because, when viewed from the east, the peak appears to have a notch. [3] Mount Merkara is 373 metres (1,224 ft) and was also named by Maclear in May 1881 after the RMS Merkara which they met on its first voyage as part of the Queensland Royal Mail Line between Australia and London. [4] The mountain Mount Rooper is 221 metres (725 ft) and named in 1932 by Lieutenant Commander C.G. Little (Royal Australian Navy) during a survey. Little named the mountain after the Rooper Inlet which it overlooks to the south (near present-day Shute Harbour), which was in turn named by Maclear in May 1881 after Lieutenant Henry E. Rooper on HMS Alert. [5] [6] [7]

All of the locality is a protected area, mostly within Conway National Park except for the south-eastern area which is in Conway Conservation Park. [7]

Shute Harbour Road follows the south-western boundary of the locality providing access to Shute Harbour on the southern side of the headland.

History

Mount Rooper comprises part of the former locality of Jubilee. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Mount Rooper (SSC)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 20 October 2018. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. 1 2 "Mount Rooper - locality in Whitsunday Region (entry 46888)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government . Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  3. ↑ "Notch Hill - hill in the Whitsunday Region (entry 24785)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government . Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  4. ↑ "Mount Merkara - mountain in the Whitsunday Region (entry 21645)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government . Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  5. ↑ "Mount Rooper - mountain in the Whitsunday Region (entry 29002)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government . Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  6. ↑ "Rooper Inlet - inlet in the Whitsunday Region (entry 29002)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government . Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  7. 1 2 "Queensland Globe". State of Queensland . Retrieved 8 November 2018.

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