Mount Woodroffe, Summit of Musgrave Ranges in South Australia.

Mount Woodroffe is the highest peak of the Musgrave Ranges in northwestern South Australia, rising approximately 1,435 meters above sea level. This granite massif stands out prominently in an otherwise flat desert landscape.

William Christie Gosse named the peak Mount Woodroffe on 20 July 1873, after Surveyor-General George Woodroffe Goyder. William Ernest Giles, the first European to pass through the area, camped south of the mountain on 7 September 1873. In the 1960s the site was considered for the Anglo-Australian Telescope but lost to Siding Spring in New South Wales because of its remoteness.

The mountain is called Ngarutjaranya in the Pitjantjatjara language and is connected to a creator being named Ngintaka in Aboriginal storytelling traditions. The landscape holds spiritual meaning for the Anangu peoples who have long understood this place as part of their living connection to country.

A permit is required to enter the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands where the mountain stands. Since October 2024 the APY lands no longer issue permits to climb Mount Woodroffe, so the summit itself cannot be reached. Plan for a remote area with no facilities or services.

In the 1960s Mount Woodroffe was shortlisted as the site for the proposed Anglo-Australian Telescope, but it lost to Siding Spring in New South Wales because of its remoteness. The instrument was built there instead, among other observatories.