Mount Geryon

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Mount Geryon is a mountain in the Central Highlands region of the Australian island state of Tasmania. The mountain is part of the Du Cane Range and is situated within the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, one of several national parks of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. The mountain was given its current name in 1935 by Malcolm Livingstone Urquhart, who named it after Geryon, the three-headed monster of Greek mythology. Like Geryon, the mountain has three main summits: north peak, the highest; south peak; and the Foresight in between, named for its resemblance of a rifle sight. A fourth, lower peak, south of south peak, is known as southern spur.. Of the three main summits, the Foresight receives the fewest ascents. Mount Geryon's north peak has an elevation of 1,516 metres (4, 974 feet) above sea level and is the twelfth-highest mountain in Tasmania. The south peak, with an elevation of 1,509 metres (4, 951 ft), is the state's fifteenth-highest peak. Mount Geryon is a major feature of Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, and an occasional venue for bushwalkers and mountain climbers. The mountain is most admired by climbers for its east face, which is up to 400 metres (1, 300 ft) in height – Tasmania's highest dolerite cliff, easily the greatest precipice in the national park, and similar in height to the southeast face of Frenchmans Cap, Tasmani

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