Mount Rooper, Queensland


Mount Rooper is a coastal locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the, Mount Rooper had no population.

Geography

Mount Rooper is a mountainous headland with three main peaks which are Notch Hill, Mount Merkara, and Mount Rooper. Notch Hill is high and was named in May 1881 by Captain John Fiot Lee Pearse Maclear of HMS Alert because, when viewed from the east, the peak appears to have a notch. Mount Merkara is and was also named by Maclear in May 1881 after the RMS Merkara which they met on its first voyage as part of the Queensland Royal Mail Line between Australia and London. The mountain Mount Rooper is and named in 1932 by Lieutenant Commander C.G. Little during a survey. Little named the mountain after the Rooper Inlet which it overlooks to the south, which was in turn named by Maclear in May 1881 after Lieutenant Henry E. Rooper on HMS Alert.
All of the locality is a protected area, mostly within Conway National Park except for the south-eastern area which is in Conway Conservation Park.
Shute Harbour Road follows the south-western boundary of the locality providing access to Shute Harbour on the southern side of the headland.

History

Mount Rooper comprises part of the former locality of Jubilee.