Mount Olympus (Tasmania)

Mount Olympus is a mountain in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park in Tasmania, Australia.

It is the 24th highest mountain in Tasmania at 1,472 metres (4,829 ft) above sea level[2] and is situated about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) South-East of Mount Gould[2] and about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) west of Lake St.

[2] In 1835 George Frankland climbed the mountain and named it Mount Olympus.

[3] Mount Olympus was painted by the Australian landscape painter, William Charles Piguenit.

[8] It is "Australia's only cold climate winter-deciduous tree", is found mainly in areas above 800 metres with rainfall of more than 1800mm, and is one of the plants that indicates Gondwana.

Mount Olympus, Lake St Clair, Tasmania, the source of the Derwent