Mount Woodroffe

…3,500 feet (1,100 m), including Mount Woodroffe (4,708 feet [1,435 m]), the state’s highest point. Sighted in 1873 by the English explorer William C. Gosse and crossed in that year by Gosse and Ernest Giles, the hills were named for Sir Anthony Musgrave, then lieutenant governor of South Australia. In…

…highest point in the state, Mount Woodroffe, in the Musgrave Ranges of the northwest interior, rises to only 4,708 feet (1,435 metres).