At the foot of mount Wellington in 1804 the town was founded Hobart – capital of Tasmania. Today the locals call it simply "the Mountain". It towers over the city at 1271 meter, and its silhouette is visible from almost any point in Hobart.

Most of the year the mountain is covered with snow even in summer. Its slopes are covered with dense forest, but they are crossed by numerous footpaths. On the summit is a narrow road with a length of about 22 km, and from the lookout near the summit offers spectacular views of the city lying below, the Delta of the river Derwent and the countryside, a UNESCO world Heritage site located about 100 km to the West. And if you look at mount Wellington from Hobart, you can see the famous rock formations of coarse-grained basalt, known as the Organ pipes. Sometimes the mountain called the sleeping volcano, although it is not – it was formed when the Australian continent separated from great-continent Gondwana about 40 million years ago.

The aboriginal inhabitants of Tasmania called the mountain "Urbanite", "Parameter" or "Kunani". People from the tribe of Palavas, the descendants of the first inhabitants of the island, still prefer these names. It is believed that the first people arrived in Tasmania about 30-40 thousand years ago. Their beliefs and traditions in combination with the data of modern archaeological research suggests that they lived on mount Wellington and its environs for most of this period.

Dutch Navigator Abel Tasman discovered the island in 1642, most likely mount Wellington and has not seen his ship sailed at a considerable distance from the South-East coast of Tasmania. Until the late 18th century, no other European has ever set foot on the soil of the island. Only in 1798 there appeared an Englishman Matthew Flinders, making the voyage around Tasmania. He called mount Wellington "table Mountain" for its similarity with the same vertex of South Africa. Its current name the mountain got in 1832 in honour of the Duke of Wellington, who defeated Napoleon at the battle of Waterloo.

During the 19-20th centuries the mountain has been a popular holiday destination among residents of Hobart. On its lower slopes were constructed many sightseeing sites, but none of them survived until our days – they were all destroyed in 1967 during the terrible forest fire. Today, the site of some of the burnt organized campsites picnic areas.