Post by greysrigging on Feb 12, 2021 22:25:56 GMT -5
Australia, the oldest and flattest of the Continents. Here is a climate battle of the highest altitude towns by State and Territory.
The 'highest town' is open to interpretation of course....you will note that I have omitted Ski Resorts/Villages ( therefore no Dinner Plain, nor Thredbo, Perisher, Charlotte Pass, Falls Creek and the like. Nor Kiandra ( pretty well a ghost town AA ? ) and reluctantly not Cabramurra as it was always a closed 'Çompany' town and from what I've heard it's workforce is now DI-DO ( drive in-drive out ).
Victoria sorta the same, the older settlements in the Victorian high country at 1000m asl are consigned to history. Tasmania has the Central Highlands settlements of Liawenee and Miena ( really just fishing shacks on a trout lake over 1000m asl, but the highest gazetted town is probably Waratah.
Queensland - nestled high up on the Atherton Tablelands are the Towns of Ravenshoe and Herberton. Rich soils, balmy highland sub tropical climate, a much sought after escape from the heat of the coastal lowlands around Cairns. Herberton has dropped as low as -5c !
Guyra - up on the high plateau of the New England ranges. The nearest town for a decent snow chase for cold deprived Queenslanders ( although Stanthorpe just over the border gets the odd snowfall. A notorious stretch of the New England Highway is sometimes closed by snow and ice at Black Mountain just to the south of the town.
Trentham - the casual visitor is often surprised at the chilly dampness of the Victorian Central Highlands. The Calder Highway from Melbourne to Bendigo is a dangerous stretch on Black Ice days during the winter months.
Waratah - town built for the Savage River Mine.... cold wet and miserable for 11 and half months of the year, But wait, there are worse places at higher altidude in the Central Highlands, Liawenee, a former Hydro town and Miena, a collection of fishing shacks on a popular trout lake.
Ernabella - a Blackfella community high up in the Musgrave Ranges just south of the SA-NT border. The crippling heat of the lowlands South Australian deserts is somewhat mitigated by the altitude. Many peaks between 1100mm and 1435m.
Tom Price - one of the first 'Company' iron ore mining towns ( along with Newman ), built in the late 1960's. These towns are now publicly 'gazetted'. Tom Price is deep within the Hamersley Ranges, at the foot of the highest peaks in western Australia, which rise to 1249m asl.
The Pilbara extreme heat is mitigated by altitude at Tom Price, so when its 48c at Marble Bar, its only 44c in TP.
Yuendumu - remote Blackfella town about 300klm north west of Alice Springs. Harsh tough country out this way along the Tanami track. Note the extreme max in Jan despite the altitude ! This would be a well above 50c temp using the DALR to sea level !
Canberra - the nations Capital..... some of the outer suburbs above 600m
The 'highest town' is open to interpretation of course....you will note that I have omitted Ski Resorts/Villages ( therefore no Dinner Plain, nor Thredbo, Perisher, Charlotte Pass, Falls Creek and the like. Nor Kiandra ( pretty well a ghost town AA ? ) and reluctantly not Cabramurra as it was always a closed 'Çompany' town and from what I've heard it's workforce is now DI-DO ( drive in-drive out ).
Victoria sorta the same, the older settlements in the Victorian high country at 1000m asl are consigned to history. Tasmania has the Central Highlands settlements of Liawenee and Miena ( really just fishing shacks on a trout lake over 1000m asl, but the highest gazetted town is probably Waratah.
Queensland - nestled high up on the Atherton Tablelands are the Towns of Ravenshoe and Herberton. Rich soils, balmy highland sub tropical climate, a much sought after escape from the heat of the coastal lowlands around Cairns. Herberton has dropped as low as -5c !
Guyra - up on the high plateau of the New England ranges. The nearest town for a decent snow chase for cold deprived Queenslanders ( although Stanthorpe just over the border gets the odd snowfall. A notorious stretch of the New England Highway is sometimes closed by snow and ice at Black Mountain just to the south of the town.
Trentham - the casual visitor is often surprised at the chilly dampness of the Victorian Central Highlands. The Calder Highway from Melbourne to Bendigo is a dangerous stretch on Black Ice days during the winter months.
Waratah - town built for the Savage River Mine.... cold wet and miserable for 11 and half months of the year, But wait, there are worse places at higher altidude in the Central Highlands, Liawenee, a former Hydro town and Miena, a collection of fishing shacks on a popular trout lake.
Ernabella - a Blackfella community high up in the Musgrave Ranges just south of the SA-NT border. The crippling heat of the lowlands South Australian deserts is somewhat mitigated by the altitude. Many peaks between 1100mm and 1435m.
Tom Price - one of the first 'Company' iron ore mining towns ( along with Newman ), built in the late 1960's. These towns are now publicly 'gazetted'. Tom Price is deep within the Hamersley Ranges, at the foot of the highest peaks in western Australia, which rise to 1249m asl.
The Pilbara extreme heat is mitigated by altitude at Tom Price, so when its 48c at Marble Bar, its only 44c in TP.
Yuendumu - remote Blackfella town about 300klm north west of Alice Springs. Harsh tough country out this way along the Tanami track. Note the extreme max in Jan despite the altitude ! This would be a well above 50c temp using the DALR to sea level !
Canberra - the nations Capital..... some of the outer suburbs above 600m
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