Mount Meharry

Mount Meharry (Western Australia)

Mount Meharry is the highest mountain in Western Australia. In topography a summit is a point on a surface which is higher in Elevation than all points immediately adjacent to For the Fly Genus, see Pilbara (fly. The Pilbara is a Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. A mountain range is a chain of Mountains bordered by highlands or separated from other mountains by passes or valleys The Hamersley Range is a mountainous region of the Pilbara, Western Australia. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is located within the southeastern part of Karijini National Park of the Pilbara region, approximately 135 kilometres from Wittenoom, and 160 kilometres from Tom Price. Karijini National Park is a National Park centred in the Hamersley Ranges of the Pilbara region in northwestern Western Australia ( Australia For the Fly Genus, see Pilbara (fly. The Pilbara is a Wittenoom is a town in the Pilbara region of Western Australia about 1106 kilometres (687 mi north-northeast of Perth. Tom Price, situated in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, is an industrial town

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Mount Meharry is named after William Thomas Meharry b1912-d1967, Chief Geodetic Surveyor for Western Australia 1959-1967. It was discovered (so far as non-indigenous records show) by Surveyor Trevor Markey and party in 1967. W T Meharry directed the survey party and performed the calculations that confirmed the mountain was the highest peak in WA, being 48ft higher than Mt Bruce. After William Meharry's sudden death on 16 May 1967 the Nomenclature Advisory Committee (now the Geographic Names Committee) recommended to the Minister for Lands that the recently discovered peak be named after him. The Minister for Lands the Hon W S Bovell MLA approved this on 28 July 1967 and a notice naming the peak was published in the WA Government Gazette on 15 September 1967.