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Arapiles 1863

Neil

11-Sep-2015
8:18:44 PM

http://artsearch.nga.gov.au/Detail-LRG.cfm?IRN=62487

gordoste

11-Sep-2015
9:02:34 PM

No phone tower!!!

shortman

11-Sep-2015
9:45:43 PM

Awesome. It really will be bouldering only one day....

ldshield

11-Sep-2015
11:59:07 PM

Is that supposed to be Mitre Rock on the right? If so, either it's eroded quite a bit since 1863, or quite a bit of artistic licence has been taken...

Wendy

12-Sep-2015
9:00:18 AM

geological time must have gone into overdrive.

jrc

12-Sep-2015
9:59:51 AM

almost good enough for the cover of a book!

widewetandslippery

12-Sep-2015
11:23:52 AM

It makes Araps look like a good crag.

BA

12-Sep-2015
12:00:41 PM

Nicholas Chevalier did two versions of Araps. The one shown has cattle by the billabong (for the white settlers) while the other shows a group of Aborigines camped by the billabong. I have a print of the latter. There were also some garishly hand coloured versions doing the rounds of the "antique" print shops about 20-30 years ago.

ima.seriousyoungliza

12-Sep-2015
11:22:47 PM

ARAPILES 1836

Major Mitchell ( first white-fella ascentist and namer of Mt Arapiles 1836 ) fought in the battle of Salamanca in 1812 , near the village of Arapiles in Spain ...

.... here is a present day view around said Arapiles ......vague inspiration for our own ' distant pile of dung ' ...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Arapil_Grande_y_Arapil_Chico.JPG

ima.seriousyoungliza

12-Sep-2015
11:39:08 PM

ima.seriousyoungliza

14-Sep-2015
2:51:05 PM

Major Mitchells Battle of Salamanca in 1812 .... with the mount above Arapiles in the background...

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/20060706-Arapiles_Campo_de_Batalla.jpg

Long straight in the road ... wheat silo ....big blue sky .... the mount above Aripiles in the background ...

...uncanny ..bizzare ... spooky ...

IdratherbeclimbingM9

14-Sep-2015
4:12:26 PM

On 14/09/2015 ima.seriousyoungliza wrote:
>...uncanny ..bizzare ... spooky ...
>
Like imaseriousyounglizar morphed to ima.seriousyoungliza ?

Though I'm enjoying the history in the thread anyway ...
;-)

ima.seriousyoungliza

14-Sep-2015
6:29:30 PM

>>> I'm enjoying the history in the thread anyway...

OH GOOD ...well lets go full circle and a bit ...

Neil linked :

'...The commanding presence of Mount Arapiles was first documented by a European in 1836, by the explorer Major Thomas Mitchell. By the time Chevalier visited the area, it and the nearby monolith the Mitre Rock were part of the station owned by Alexander Wilson. He or his brother Charles commissioned the painting...'

Neil authored :
>>>..Arapiles 1863 ...

Also at this same time the Wilson bros agisted camels associated with the Burke & Wills Expedition ...including veteran beasts from the infamous Coopers Creek ...

http://www.burkeandwills.net.au/Camels/Camels_in_the_Wimmera.htm

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