John Batman was likely to have been the first European to have visited the area, as he records crossing the plateau to his farm on the Ben Lomond Rivulet in the 1820s.
The name Ben Lomond originally pertained to the southern end of the plateau and the southern extremity was originally named 'the Butts' by European settlers and then, colloquially, as 'the Stacks' - on account of the rock formations on the southern aspect of the bluff [REF].