A low rocky range in the
Tanami desert. Discovered and named by David
Carnegie on 21st April 1897. The following is an excerpt from his book, Spinifex and Sand.
"On the 24th (April) we crossed a range of barren hills, which I named the
Gordon Hills, after our friends of
Flora Valley. In the neighbourhood Godfrey picked up a perfectly white egg, somewhat resembling that of an emu, which lay upon a hummock of spinifex; presumably it had been bleached by the sun. From the hills to the S.S.W., across high ridges of sand, can be seen a range apparently of some altitude, distant some twenty-five
miles; this I named the Stretch Range, after our kind host of Denison Downs Station. From the
Gordon Hills we continued on our course for a smoke we had sighted the day before, and before long picked up two fresh tracks, which we followed. From some stony rises a large, prominent
hill came into view, as if formed of three great steps of bare
rock. This I named Mount Elphinstone, after my cousin, and towards it we shaped our course, still on the tracks."