Mount Schank. St Lukes Anglican Church. Built in 1901. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Mount Schank. St Lukes Anglican Church. Built in 1901. / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Mount Schank. Apart from Mt Gambier and Mount Schank there are about ten other main volcanic craters in the South East. (There is about 400 in western Victoria.) They are Mt Watch, The Bluff, Mt Lookout, Mt Frill, Mt Muirhead, Mt Graham, Campbell Hill, Mt McIntyre, Mt Edward and Mt Lyon. Some of these ancient craters have small craters on their sides as is the case with Mt Schank. The walk to the top of Mt Schank affords panoramic views to the bottom of the crater. Old photographs from around 1900 show the crater with a lake in the bottom as did the small crater cone on the side of Mt Schank. Mt Schank is an ash (or maar) formation cone with a crater rim that is 100 metres high and about 300 metres in diameter. The volcano last erupted about 4,500 years ago when Mt Gambier was also erupting. They are the youngest volcanoes in Australia. The southern side crater on Mt Schank is about 100 metres in diameter. Mt Schank was declared a SA heritage site in 1992. The lava flow from Mt Schank runs to the north for 1.2 kms. When George French Angas and Governor Grey visited Mt Schank in 1844 they found evidence of megafauna – mainly kangaroos and emus. The last eruptions were sighted by the local Aboriginal people and woven into one of their dreamtime stories. The story reported to a white woman in 1880 explains that a giant was looking for a place to live with his wife and two sons. They camped at Mount Muirhead and Mount Schank but were scared away from both these camps by a moaning bird spirit called Bullin. They made earth ovens in the hot soils at the base of the volcanoes. Hearing Bullin they fled to Mount Gambier leaving the volcanoes to burn. After some time water came and filled the volcanic cones putting the fires out and driving Bullin away. Was the moaning noise of Bullin small or imminent eruptions? The lithograph above of Mt Schank was drawn by George French Angas and published in 1846. This extinct volcano crater was named by Lieutenant James Grant on 3 December 1800 during his explorations of the coast in the brig HMS Lady Nelson. Grant named the mount after Admiral John Schank who designed the Lady Nelson. Admiral Schank was a Scot from Castlerig where his family had occupied lands since 1319. They were not German. The Mt Schank station as taken out early in 1842 by the Arthur brothers. It stretched from the Glenelg River westwards to Carpenter Rocks. They had considerable trouble with the Buandik Aboriginal people and they retreated from their lands after a two years. Mr Arthur was speared and nearly died. They sold the run cheaply to Edward and Robert Leake in 1844 the pastoral brothers of Glencoe. They in turn sold the run in 1856 and in 1861 William Clarke obtained Mt Schank run for £80,000. It was around 75,000 acres freehold but grew to 87,000 acres. William Clarke had extensive and very profitable runs in Victoria and Tasmania as well as the South East. He died in 1874 and left Mt Schank to his third son Joseph Clarke. A major part of the estate was sold for smaller scale farming in 1915 to the government. Joseph Clarke’s ancestors owned the remainder of Mt Schank run into the 20th century when it was further broken up for closer settlement. The Clarke family kept a small section of the run until the 1930s. The Clarke’s adjoining pastoral run, the Kongorong run of 40,000 acres, was sold to the SA government in 1910 for closer settlement. As more land was broken up around Mount Schank a settlement emerged with a government school from 1892 until 1953, and an Anglican Church from 1901. The Mt Schank district grew with some soldier settlements after World War One but most after World War Two. Around 30 soldier settlements farms were created around the mountain. In 1920 W Clarke of Mt Schank estate donated 1,078 acres to the Minister of Repatriation for soldier six settler farms to be known as the district of Garden Flat. The District Hall, which is now disused, was built in the early 1950s. |
| 撮影日 | 2022-10-24 15:12:36 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.002 sec (1/500) |
| 開放F値 | f/3.5 |