Mt Warning

I took this shot of Mt Warning from the banks of the Tweed river at Chinderah, N.S.W.

Mt Warning was named by Capt Cook as a warning to other mariners of Point Danger as he travelled up the east coast of Australia in 1770.

Shortly after sighting this mountain his ship ran aground between an island ( now named Cook Island ) and the mainland at the mouth of the Tweed River.

He named the area Point Danger and it is still known by that name.

Mt Warning is the plug of an ancient valcano, it's lava flow covering an area of 400 sqr klms.

The lava flow weathered away over millions of years, but the plug - being harder - has remained.

The town of Murwillumbah sits near the base of Mt Warning in the Tweed Valley.

The beautiful soil rich Tweed Valley is the result of the weathering lava and sits in what is called a caldera - a sunken fertile valley - that used to once be the lava of the volcano that is Mt Warning.