Mount Meharry

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Mount Meharry
Elevation	1249 metres (4098 feet)[1]
Location	Pilbara region of Western Australia
Range	Hamersley Range
Prominence	836 metres (2742 feet)[2]
Coordinates	22°58′S, 118°35′E

Mount Meharry is the highest mountain in Western Australia. It is located within the southeastern part of Karijini National Park of the Pilbara region, approximately 135 kilometres from Wittenoom, and 160 kilometres from Tom Price.

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Mount Meharry is named after William Thomas Meharry b1912-d1967, Chief Geodetic Surveyor for Western Australia 1959-1967. It was discovered (so far as non-indigenous records show) by Surveyor Trevor Markey and party in 1967. W T Meharry directed the survey party and performed the calculations that confirmed the mountain was the highest peak in WA, being 48ft higher than Mt Bruce. After William Meharry's sudden death on 16 May 1967 the Nomenclature Advisory Committee (now the Geographic Names Committee) recommended to the Minister for Lands that the recently discovered peak be named after him. The Minister for Lands the Hon W S Bovell MLA approved this on 28 July 1967 and a notice naming the peak was published in the WA Government Gazette on 15 September 1967.