Mount Read (Tasmania)
| Mount Read | ||
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| height | 1124 m | |
| location | Tasmania | |
| Mountains | West Coast Range | |
| Coordinates | 41 ° 50 '0 " S , 145 ° 32' 0" E | |
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The Mount Read is a mountain in the west of the Australian state of Tasmania . It is located on the northwest corner of the West Coast Range .
Like Mount Lyell , Mount Read has had mines, settlements, and other human activities for over a hundred years.
The main gold and copper ore veins in the West Coast Range occur along the geological formation of the Mount Read Volcanoes .
Hercules mine with conveyor system
The Hercules Mine on Mount Read was connected to the Williamsford settlement and then to the North Dundas Tramway by a 60 cm wide inclined conveyor system. The conveyor system worked automatically, was 1.6 km long and overcame an altitude difference of 550 m. The maximum gradient was 1: 5.
Huon stone slices
Despite the extensive mining and human activity on its slopes, Mount Read has unique stands of huon stone slices ( Lagarostrobos franklinii ) on its slopes.
Weather station
An automatic weather station of the Bureau of Meteorology was installed on Mount Read , which often provides extremely extreme weather data. The high values for rainfall in autumn 2006 are on par with those of Lake Margaret on June 30, 2006.
Earlier glaciation
To the southeast of Mount Read, in the Tyndall Range , one can see many signs of previous glaciation, as well as glacial lakes such as Lake Westwood, Lake Selina and Lake Julia.
Web links
- Bureau of Meteorology website
- LISTmap (Mount Read) . Department of Primary Industries and Water. Tasmanian Government
swell
- Geoffrey Blainey: The Peaks of Lyell , 6th ed. Edition, St. David's Park Publishing, Hobart 2000, ISBN 0-7246-2265-9 .
- Kerry Pink. The west coast story: a history of Western Tasmania and its mining fields Rev. ed. Zeehan TAS: West Coast Pioneers' Memorial Museum, 1984. ISBN 0-9598295-2-0
- Rae, Lou: The Abt Railway and Railways of the Lyell region . Lou Rae, Sandy Bay 2001, ISBN 0-9592098-7-5 .
- 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
- Whitham, Lindsay: Railways, Mines, Pubs and People and other historical research . Tasmanian Historical Research Association, Sandy Bay 2002, ISBN 0-909479-21-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Light Railways, No. 35, autumn 1971, p. 22, had an average gradient of 1: 3.2 and a maximum gradient of 1: 1.5, as well as a maximum speed of 22.4 km / h - more details in : Light Railways No. 27, p. 25 by Wayne Chynoweth
- ↑ Ancient Gondwana . History & Heritage. Media Resources. Tourism Tasmania ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
