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Mount Barker is a mountain just outside of the town of Mount Barker in South Australia. The mountain is the home to a transmission tower that services SAGRN and mobile phone transmissions throughout the area. Microwave Radio equipment is also installed on the tower, further providing various forms of communication such as broadband internet connections and voice services to Mount Barker residents and businesses. == History == Mount Barker was first sighted by Captain Charles Sturt in 1830, although he thought he was looking at the previously discovered Mount Lofty. Captain Collet Barker fixed this error when he surveyed the area in 1831. Sturt named the mountain in honor of Captain Barker after he was killed days later by Aborigines.〔(District Council Of Mount Barker ) "History"〕 The first Europeans to ascend the mountain, on 27 November 1837, were a six-man party comprising John Barton Hack, John Morphett, Samuel Stephens, Charles Stuart (South Australian Company's stock overseer), Thomas Davis (Hack's stockman), and John Wade (a "gentleman from Hobart Town").〔(A Chequered Career - Reminiscences of a Pioneer III ) ''South Australian Register'' 28 April 1884 p.7 accessed 7 September 2011. Three of Morphett's companions were identified by him in a letter dated December 6, 1837 to Samuel Wendy, a barrister of Chancery Lane, London as Hack, (perhaps Samuel) Stephens, and Mr. John Wade, from Van Diemens Land.〕 A counterclaim that the first Europeans to scale the summit were Robert Cock, William Finlayson, A(dolphus) Valentine Wyatt and George Barton late in December 1837 is not credible. By then Morphett already had a letter published in a Sydney newspaper reporting that the summit had been scaled one month earlier.〔''The Colonist'', 28 December 1837, p. 2.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mount Barker (South Australia)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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