Australian Mountain Peaks
Cache Name: AMP024 – Mount Barney
Peak ID: 24
Elevation: 1354m
State: NSW
Location: Scenic Rim, South East Queensland
Coordinates: 28°17′S 152°42′E
Cache Size: 500ml plastic container
Mount Barney is a mountain within the Scenic Rim Region in southeast Queensland, Australia. It lies approximately 130 kilometres southwest of Brisbane, not far from the Queensland - New South Wales border, and forms part of the McPherson Range. It is a popular destination for bushwalkers and campers. Mount Barney is often regarded as one of the most impressive parts of the Scenic Rim. The mountain consists of two main peaks (East Peak and the slightly higher West Peak), and smaller subsidiary peaks. East Peak is probably the most popular destination for bushwalkers.
The closest town is Rathdowney. Mount Barney is surrounded by other mountains including Mount Ballow, Mount May, Mount Ernest, Mount Maroon and Mount Lindesay. Logan River has its headwaters on the mountain.
On 3 August 1828, explorer Allan Cunningham named the mountain Mount Lindesay. However, the New South Wales Surveyor-General Thomas Mitchell is believed to have renamed it in the 1840s to Mount Barney, after George Barney, a colonial engineer. Mitchell is believed to have assigned the name Mount Lindesay to the current Mount Lindesay (which Cunningham had originally named Mount Hooker).
The first European to climb Mount Barney was Captain Patrick Logan, who reached the East Peak summit via the now named Logan's Ridge, during an exploring expedition in 1828. Historical records suggest that Europeans probably began bushwalking at Mount Barney for recreation in about the 1880s when the region became more closely settled.