Mount Hypipamee Crater
Sheer granite pit blown open by an ancient gas explosion, holding a deep, duckweed-covered lake.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Mount Hypipamee Crater on the Atherton Tableland near Cairns follows a thread of money and myth through one deep granite pit. It opens with a Dyirbal legend about two young men and a prized candlenut tree, then jumps to eighteen seventy-nine, when a gold prospector named Weate led a party through this forest chasing the same rush that built nearby Herberton, and nearly walked his men straight into the hole in the dark. You will also hear how the crater got the name it kept instead of his.
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