Mount Jukes (Tasmania)
| Mount Jukes | ||
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| height | 1104 m | |
| location | Tasmania | |
| Mountains | West Coast Range | |
| Coordinates | 42 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 145 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Mount Jukes is a mountain in the west of the Australian state of Tasmania . It is located in the southern part of the West Coast Range and was named by Charles Gould in 1862 after Professor Joseph Beete Jukes , a British geologist. Jukes was involved in the discussion and Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and had visited Hobart in the years 1842–1843 on the HMS "Fly".
The multi-peaked mountain with the glacial lakes on its eastern flank lay above the old settlement '' Crotty '' and is now west of Lake Burbury .
Mining
There were small mining camps on the banks of the lakes, as well as up on the north flank, where the '' Mount Jukes Road '' crosses the upper slopes of the King River Gorge .
Street
The 22 km long Mount Jukes Road was built by Hydro Tasmania in the 1980s when the Crotty Dam was built. It connects the southern suburbs of Queenstown with Darwin Dam , where the tracks of the former North Mount Lyell Railway disappeared between the Linda Valley and Crotty in Lake Burbury.
summit
Mount Jukes has a number of specially named peaks.
- Jukes Range - is the name of the mountain range between Proprietary Peak in the north and Jukes Peak in the south.
- East Jukes Peak - 731 m - closest to the King River Gorge and Crotty Dam and north of Mount Jukes Road
- Proprietary Peak - 1,104 m - north-westerly main peak of Mount Jukes, with the Crown Spur as the most noticeable detail when viewed from Queenstown
- Mount Jukes - 1,168 m
- Central Peak
- West Jukes Peak - 1,062 m
- Pyramid Peak - 1,080 m
- South Jukes Peak - 1,014 m
Further details are given by name but without heights:
- Yellow Knob
- Yellow Knob Lane
- South Jukes track
- Crown track
- East Jukes track
- Intercolonial lane
- Cliff track
- Newall track
Lakes
There are two glacial lakes in the upper part of the eastern flank:
- Upper Lake Jukes
- Lower Lake Jukes
A number of small mines were built on the banks of these lakes in the early 20th century.
swell
- Geoffrey Blainey: The Peaks of Lyell , 6th Edition, St. David's Park Publishing, Hobart 2000, ISBN 0-7246-2265-9 .
- Crawford, Patsy: King: Story of a River . Montpelier Press, 2000, ISBN 1-876597-02-X .
- Charles Whitham: Western Tasmania - A land of riches and beauty , Reprint 2003. Edition, Municipality of Queenstown, Queenstown 2003.
- Edition 2003 - Queenstown: Municipality of Queenstown.
- 1949 edition - Hobart: Davies Brothers. OCLC 48825404
- 1924 edition - Queenstown: Mount Lyell Tourist Association. OCLC 35070001
cards
- Tasmap 1: 25,000:
- Owen, sheet 3833 (2nd edition 2001) - for the northern part
- Darwin, sheet 3832 - for the southern part
Individual evidence
- ^ HEC: King River Power Development p. 12 Construction Highlights
- ↑ The details on this are the Tasmap card 1: 100,000: Franklin, sheet 8013, 6th edition (1997), the Tasmap card 1: 25,000: Darwin, sheet 3832, 2nd edition (1999) and the Tasmap card 1 : 25,000: Owen, sheet 3833, 2nd edition (2001) taken.