Mount Sonder
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Mount Sonder, or Rwetyepme, its Aboriginal name, is the second highest mountain in the Northern Territory, Australia at 1380 metres above sea level. Mount Zeil is the highest at 1531 metres, 27 kilometres to the west. It is 130 kilometres west of Alice Springs along the MacDonnell Ranges in the West MacDonnell National Park. It marks one end of the celebrated Larapinta trail, which extends 250 kilometres to Alice Springs. The shape of the mountain is a double peak, the relative heights of which are somewhat ambiguous from the summit, although easy to identify from the surrounding plains. The mountain can be seen for the western half of the Larapinta trail, up to Ormiston Pound, which obscures it from then on.
A clearly defined walking track exists up the western side, taking about 12 kilometres. Water is available at the base, and a direction plate can be found at the summit. The view from the top boasts the taller Mount Zeil to the west, the West MacDonnell Range to the east, Glen Helen Gorge, a very small town, to the east and Gosses Bluff to the south west on a clear day.
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- Mount Sonder. Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
