Mount Murchison (Tasmania)

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Mount Murchison
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height 1275  m
location Tasmania
Mountains West Coast Range
Coordinates 42 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  S , 145 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 42 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  S , 145 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount Murchison (Tasmania) (Tasmania)
Mount Murchison (Tasmania)
particularities highest mountain in the West Coast Range

The Mount Murchison is a mountain in the west of the Australian state of Tasmania . At 1,275 m, it is the highest point in the West Coast Range .

The higher mountains of the West Coast Range are named after the critics of Charles Darwin's theories, the lower after their proponents.

literature

  • Banks, MR and Kirkpatrick, JB Editors: Landscape and Man, the interaction between man and environment in Western Tasmania .
  • Binks, CJ: Explorers of Western Tasmania . Mary Fisher Bookshop, Launceston 1980, ISBN 0-908291-16-7 .
  • Blainey, Geoffrey: The Peaks of Lyell , 6th ed. Edition, St. David's Park Publishing, Hobart 2000, ISBN 0-7246-2265-9 .
  • Charles Whitham: Western Tasmania: A Land of Riches and Beauty.
Edition 2003 - Queenstown: Municipality of Queenstown.
1949 edition - Hobart: Davies Brothers. OCLC 48825404
1924 edition - Queenstown: Mount Lyell Tourist Association. OCLC 35070001
  • Whitham, Lindsay: Railways, Mines, Pubs and People and other historical research . Tasmanian Historical Research Association, Sandy Bay 2002, ISBN 0-909479-21-6 .