What is Mount Stromlo?
[[File:Mount Stromlo.jpg|thumb|Mount Stromlo viewed from the [[Telstra Tower]]]] [[Image:Stromlo ACT locality-MJC01.png|thumb|Mount Stromlo Locality Map]] '''Mount Stromlo''' is west of the centre of [[Canberra]], [[Australia]], near the district of [[Weston Creek]]. It is about {{convert|751|m|abbr=on}} above [[sea level]] and {{convert|200|m|abbr=on}} above the surrounding plains. The [[Mount Stromlo Observatory]] (run by the [[Australian National University]]) is on the top of the mountain. Canberra's main water supply treatment plant, supplied by the [[Cotter River]] catchment area is nearby.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.actew.com.au/Water%20and%20Sewerage%20Systems/Water%20Supply%20System.aspx |title=ACT Water Supply System |first= |last= |work=actew.com.au |year=2011 |accessdate=9 October 2011 |archive-date=28 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928023140/http://www.actew.com.au/Water%20and%20Sewerage%20Systems/Water%20Supply%20System.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> Road access to the mountain is by Cotter Road on the south side, and Uriarra Road on the east and north. The summit is reached by a road joining Cotter road just outside Duffy. ==History== The mountain had been part of the Yarralumla Station, a farm now used as the residence the [[Governor-General of Australia]]. It was named Mount Stromlo by Frederick Campbell in the 1880s, but it is not known where he got the name.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7007/is_68/ai_n58070828/ |title=Mount Stromlo, ACT, |first=Peter |last=Proctor |work=Australia: the origin of the place-name |year=2011 |accessdate=9 October 2011 }}{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Mount Stromlo was chosen by [[Pietro Baracchi]] in 1910 as the site for an observatory.<ref>{{Australian Dictionary of Biography |last= Perdrix |first= J.L. |authorlink= |year= 1979 |id= baracchi-pietro-paolo-giovanni-ernesto-5121 |title= Baracchi, Pietro Paolo Giovanni Ernesto (185