# Mount Zeil

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**Mount Zeil** ([Western Arrernte](/source/Western_Arrernte): ***Urlatherrke***) (1,531 metres or 5,023 feet) is a [mountain](/source/Mountain) in the [Northern Territory](/source/Northern_Territory) of [Australia](/source/Australia) located in the locality of [Mount Zeil](/source/Mount_Zeil,_Northern_Territory) in the western [MacDonnell Ranges](/source/MacDonnell_Ranges).[2][1] It is the highest peak in the Northern Territory, and the highest peak on the Australian mainland west of the [Great Dividing Range](/source/Great_Dividing_Range).[2]

## History

It is believed that Mount Zeil was named during or following [Ernest Giles](/source/Ernest_Giles)'s 1872 expedition, probably after Count Karl von [Waldburg-Zeil](/source/Waldburg-Zeil) (1841–1890), who had recently distinguished himself with geographic explorations in [Spitzbergen](/source/Svalbard); a footnote in Giles' published journal implies that the naming was instigated by his benefactor, [Baron Ferdinand von Mueller](/source/Ferdinand_von_Mueller).[1]

## Indigenous etymology

The name for Mount Zeil in the [Western Arrernte](/source/Upper_Arrernte_language#Varieties) language is ***Urlatherrke***, referring to the [Yeperenye](/source/Hyles_livornicoides) [caterpillars](/source/Caterpillar).[3]

## See also

- [List of mountains in Australia](/source/List_of_mountains_in_Australia)

## References

1. ["Place Names Register Extract for "Mount Zeil""](http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/placenames/view.jsp?id=15892). *NT Place Names Register*. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 6 October 2019.

1. ["Highest Mountains"](https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/national-location-information/landforms/highest-mountains). Geoscience Australia. Retrieved 6 October 2019.

1. [hermannsburgschool.com](https://hermannsburgschool.com/?history). Retrieved 4 January 2007

## External links

- [Image of Mount Zeil on Google Maps](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Australia&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=12&ll=-23.396148,132.403793&spn=0.127614,0.343323&t=k)
- [Australia's highest mountains - Geoscience Australia](https://web.archive.org/web/20050617084805/http://www.ga.gov.au/education/facts/landforms/highmtns.htm)

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