With an elevation of 1,569 metres (5,148 ft) above sea level, it is the third highest mountain in Tasmania[2] and named after William Giblin, a previous Premier of Tasmania.

From 1905 to 1912 a full survey of Ben Lomond was conducted by Colonel W.V.

The survey party explored the highlands on the north of the plateau in 1907.

Legge had long suspected that the north of the plateau was higher than the trigonometric station on Stacks Bluff although it is less obviously elevated from casual observation.

[7] Lyndhurst Giblin, a member of Legge's survey party, climbed and measured the true summit and named it after Legge and, in turn, the prominent bluff to the south of the summit was named for Giblin's father - Giblin Fells.