Mount Woodroffe

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Mount Woodroffe (26°19′ S 131°44′ E) is South Australia's highest peak, at 1,435 metres. It is known to the Pitjantjatjara Aborigines as Ngarutjaranya.

It is located in the far North of South Australia, in the MacDonnell Ranges, and is named after George Woodroffe Goyder, an early explorer and surveyor in South Australia and the Northern Territory.

In Australian mythology, the mountain embodies the mythological creature Ngintaka.



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