Mount Dangar is prominent basalt peak at the eastern edge of the Goulburn River National Park, north-west of Denman, New South Wales."Denman, New South Wales". The Sydney Morning Herald. 8 February 2004. Retrieved 4 August 2009
It has an elevation of AHD, and the first man of European descent to report a sighting was the surveyor Henry Dangar in October 1824, following his exploration of the confluence of the Goulburn and Hunter Rivers. Dangar named the domed shaped mountain Mount Cupola.
In April 1825, botanist and explorer, Allan Cunningham, renamed the mountain Mount Dangar, when he ascended the mountain during his second northwest expedition to the Liverpool Plains.Brief View of the Progress of Interior Discovery in New South Wales. By Allan Cunningham, Esq
Acacia dangarensis (Mount Dangar wattle) occurs within the Goulburn River National Park.Tindale, M.D. & Kodela, P.G Plantnet – NSW Flora online. Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney 2002 It is regarded as critically endangered under the Commonwealth EPBC Act which, which in this case applies as a nationally threatened species and ecological community. The CSIRO concludes that A. dangarensis may best be managed by recognising centurial rather than decadal change in habitat.Australian Journal of Botany 70(6) 432-446 https://doi.org/10.1071/BT22036
Unique geological basalt column formations exist to the easterly adjacent hill of Mount Dangar. These columns cluster near the hill's summit in vertical and toppled horizontal arrangements.
Further reading
References