# Mount Liebig

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{{Short description|Mountain in Australia}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{use Australian English|date=March 2021}}
{{Infobox mountain
| name = Mount Liebig
| image = Mount Liebig 9112.jpg
| image_caption = Viewed from the Gary Junction Road looking east.
| elevation_m = 1274
| elevation_ref = {{AHD}}
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| location = [Kunparrka. Northern Territory](/source/Kunparrka._Northern_Territory), [Australia](/source/Australia)<ref name="placename">{{cite web |title=Place Names Register Extract for "Mount Liebig" (Mount) |url=https://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/placenames/view.jsp?id=15605 |website=NT Place Names Register |publisher=Northern Territory Government |access-date=18 March 2019}}</ref>
| range = [MacDonnell Ranges](/source/MacDonnell_Ranges)
| coordinates = {{coord|23.287906|S|131.3643|E|format=dms|display=title,inline|region:AU_type:mountain_source:GNS-enwiki}}<ref name="placename"/>
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| map = Australia Northern Territory
| map_caption = Location in the Northern Territory
| etymology = [Justus von Liebig](/source/Justus_von_Liebig)
}}

'''Mount Liebig''' is a mountain with an elevation of {{convert|1274|m}} {{AHD}} in the southern part of the [Northern Territory](/source/Northern_Territory) of [Australia](/source/Australia). It is one of the highest peaks of the [MacDonnell Ranges](/source/MacDonnell_Ranges) and was named by the explorer [Ernest Giles](/source/Ernest_Giles) after the German chemist [Justus von Liebig](/source/Justus_von_Liebig).<ref>Ernest Favenc: ''The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888''. Echo Library 2006, {{ISBN|978-1-4068-2067-6}}, p. 184</ref> Nearby settlements include [Haasts Bluff](/source/Haasts_Bluff%2C_Northern_Territory).

The killing of two Aboriginal men at Mount Liebig in 1932<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Native murder reported: two men found speared at Mt. Liebig |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/34693220 |work=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=6 Aug 1932 |access-date=24 Aug 2020 }}</ref> according to [traditional law](/source/Aboriginal_Australian_customary_law) led the missionary [Ernest Kramer](/source/Ernest_Eugene_Kramer) to demand the prosecution of the killers for murder, leading to debate on the applicability of white law to traditional violence. The men were tried but acquitted by a [Darwin](/source/Darwin%2C_Northern_Territory) jury.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Batty |first1=Philip |date=2013 |title=Murder, infanticide and the moral certainty of Ernest Kramer |url=http://www.anthropologysocietysa.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Batty-JASSA-37.pdf |journal=Journal of the Anthopological Society of South Australia |volume=37 |pages=107–125 |access-date=24 Aug 2020}}</ref>

Notable [Aboriginal Australians](/source/Aboriginal_Australians) who have lived in the region of Mount Liebig include [Indigenous artist](/source/Contemporary_Indigenous_Australian_art) [Nora Andy Napaltjarri](/source/Nora_Andy_Napaltjarri)<ref name="Johnson6061">{{cite book|last=Johnson|first=Vivien|title=Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary|publisher=Craftsman House|pages=60–61|location=Roseville East, NSW|year=1994}}</ref> and [Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri](/source/Ngoia_Pollard_Napaltjarri).<ref name="Gibson">{{cite book|last1=McCulloch Childs|first1=Emily|last2=Gibson|first2=Ross|title=New Beginnings: Classic Paintings from the Corrigan Collection of 21st Century Aboriginal Art|year=2008|publisher=McCulloch & McCulloch Australian Art Books|location=Fitzroy, VIC|isbn=978-0-9804494-4-0|page=106}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Mountains}}
* [List of mountains of the Northern Territory](/source/List_of_mountains_of_the_Northern_Territory)

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=11461 Mt. Liebig at www.peakbagger.com]; (retrieved 2009-9-3)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090922204344/http://nt.gov.au/nreta/environment/conservation/pdf/56_mountliebig.pdf ''Mount Liebig and Surrounds'' (pdf)] - brochure by the government of the Northern Territory (retrieved 2009-9-3)
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Liebig
Category:Justus von Liebig
Category:MacDonnell Region

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