page_title: Mount Lindesay (Queensland)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Mount Lindesay (Queensland) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Mount Lindesay, Queensland, Australia. Photograph of Mount Lindesay, Queensland, Australia.
context_page_description: Mount Lindesay is a rural locality in the Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia. It borders New South Wales. In the 2016 census, Mount Lindesay had a population of 3 people.
  The mountain of the same name is located on the south-west boundary of the locality on the border between Queensland and New South Wales.
context_section_description: On 6 July 1828, the botanist and explorer Allan Cunningham originally named this mountain Mount Hooker after botanist William Hooker and called another mountain (now Mount Barney) by the name Mount Lindesay after Colonel Patrick Lindesay, the Commandant of Troops in New South Wales 1827–1836. Sometime in the late 1830s or early 1840s, either the New South Wales Surveyor-General Thomas Mitchell, or Moreton District surveyor Robert Dixon, are believed to have changed the names to be Mount Lindesay and Mount Barney (after Lieutenant-Colonel George Barney) respectively.
  The first known European ascent of Mount Lindesay was most likely by Collector of Customs, William Thornton, and the Kinchela brothers, John and James, sometime between 1846 and 1848. All were stationed in Queensland at the time and knew each other well with the Kinchela brothers  based at Telemon station on the Upper Logan within sight of the mountain.
  The first recorded (and second) ascent of Mount Lindesay was made in May 1872, by Thomas de Montmorency Murray-Prior (1848-1902) and Phillip Walter Pears (1846-1924). At the time of the 1872 ascent, an Aboriginal elder at nearby Unumgar station claimed to Pears that his father had once climbed the peak.
  The second recorded (and third) ascent of Mount Lindesay was made in July 1890, by the Norwegian naturalist and explorer Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink (1864-1934), then working in the district as a surveyor's labourer, and Edwin Villiers-Brown, of Beaudesert. There were a further eight recorded ascents by the late 1920s, when pioneering climbers such as Bert Salmon (1899-1982) started visiting the peak regularly. The first women to climb Mount Lindesay were Brisbane climbers Jean Easton and Nora Dimes, who made the ascent with Bert Salmon in March 1931.
  In December 1928 Mount Lindesay was the site of the first known recreational climbing fatality in Australia, when Lyle Vidler fell to his death whilst attempting a solo ascent of Vidler's Chimney. He is buried in a grave in the rainforest, not far from where he fell. On 19 June 2011, Ross Miller, one of a party of six, fell to his death while climbing in a designated area.
  Mount Lindesay has been part of a successful native title claim made by the Trevor Close on behalf of the Githabul people, for whom the peak holds a special significance.
caption: Mount Lindesay from the Mount Lindesay Highway
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