Musgrave Ranges

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Musgrave Ranges is a mountain range in Central Australia, straddling the boundary of South Australia and the Northern Territory, extending into Western Australia. It is between the Great Victoria Desert to the south and the Gibson Desert to the north. They have a length of 210 kilometres and many peaks that have a height of more than 1100 metres, the heighest being Mount Woodroffe at 1,435 m.

They were inhabited by the Pitjantjatjara Aborigines and discovered by English explorer William C. Gosse and named after Anthony Musgrave, then Governor of South Australia.

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