Stacks Bluff

Stacks Bluff
Stacks Bluff from summit cairn
Highest point
Elevation	1,527 m (5,010 ft)
Isolation	10.41 km (6.47 mi)
Listing	9th highest mountain in Tasmania
Coordinates	41°37′12″S 147°40′48″E / 41.62000°S 147.68000°E / -41.62000; 147.68000 (Stacks Bluff)Coordinates: 41°37′12″S 147°40′48″E / 41.62000°S 147.68000°E / -41.62000; 147.68000 (Stacks Bluff)
Geography
Stacks Bluff Location in Tasmania
Location	Northeast Tasmania, Australia
Parent range	Ben Lomond
Geology
Age of rock	Jurassic
Climbing
First ascent	Plangermaireener (circa?); Aboriginal John Batman (1820s); European

John Batman (1820s); European

The Stacks Bluff is a peak in northeast Tasmania, Australia. The mountain is situated on the Ben Lomond plateau.

At 1,527 metres (5,010 ft) above sea level, it is the ninth highest mountain in Tasmania, and is a feature visible throughout the Tasmanian Midlands - prominent due to its extensive promontory cliff-line and exposed dolerite columns.

The mountain was originally occupied by Tasmanian Aboriginal people of the Ben Lomond Nation, who habituated the plateau in summer and left evidence of campsites and artifacts at Lake Youl (Palawa: meenemata) 2-kilometre (1.2 mi) north of the summit block of Stacks Bluff. The clans of the Ben Lomond Nation who occupied this area were the Plangermaireener and Plindermairhemener, who regularly traversed the river valleys and marshes below Stacks Bluff.

The aboriginal names for Stacks Bluff and surrounds are uncertain but modern etymological research has determined this toponymy:

Both the ethnographic record and archeological evidence describes their habitation and visitation of the country surrounding the peak.John Batman, whilst prosecuting his commission to round up the Ben Lomond clans in a 'roving party', wrote in his diary in 1830:

"Made round to the stacks of the mountain (i.e. Stacks Bluff), and stopped on a spot where the women said would be the most likely the Blacks would come or pass, that it was the usual beat for them"

John Batman was likely to have been the first European to have visited the area, as he records crossing the plateau to his farm on the Ben Lomond Rivulet in the 1820s. The artist John Glover ascended the plateau in January 1833 and sketched the northern aspect of Stacks Bluff, as well as the prominent features around the peak.

The name Ben Lomond originally pertained to the southern end of the plateau and the southern extremity was originally named 'the Butts' by European settlers and then, colloquially, as 'the Stacks' - on account of the rock formations on the southern aspect of the bluff. The toponym 'Stacks Bluff' first appears on maps in 1915.