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Mount Munro
Mount
Munro
is, at
715
metres
, the
highest point
on
Cape Barren Island
in
Bass Strait
,
Tasmania, Australia
. It was
probably
named after
James Munro
, a former
convict
who had been a
sealer
and
beachcomber
in
Bass
Strait
from the early
1820s
and
lived
for more than
twenty years
on
nearby
Preservation Island
, where he had several "wives".
Cape
Barren Island
is now an
Aboriginal
community
island
.