 The mountain is situated in the Brindabella National Park on the NSW side and in the Namadgi National Park on the ACT side.The mountain marks the point where the ACT border changes from a straight north-easterly line to being judged by the watershed of the Cotter River, and the Coree Trigonometrical Station on top of it is officially mentioned as such in the which established the borders of the ACT.Before European settlement, the mountain was used by Indigenous Australian tribes to hunt for bogong moths.