Place Names Register Extract

Mount Zeil

Extract date: 03/04/2025

Name	Mount Zeil
Type Designation	Locality
Place Id	22373
Place Type	Administrative Area
Status	Registered
Date Registered	3 April 2007
Location (Datum GDA94)
	Latitude: -23° 16' S (Decimal degrees -23.2821)
	Longitude: 132° 21' E (Decimal degrees 132.362)
Locality / Suburb
	(None Found)
Local Government Area
	MacDonnell Shire Council
History/Origin	The Mount Zeil locality is based around the feature mount of the same name which is the highest point in the Northern Territory. Mount Zeil was named during or following Ernest Giles' 1872 expedition to the west of Alice Springs after Karl Maria Eberhard, Prince of Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach (1825 - 1907), most probably by Baron Ferd. von Mueller.

Register & Gazettal information

Date	Gazettal	Comment
03/04/2007		Date of Registration
04/04/2007	NTG 14	Notice of Naming

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