Mount Lyell (Tasmania)

Western part of the Mount Lyell from the road to the Lake Margaret from

The Mount Lyell is a mountain in the west of the Australian state of Tasmania. It is located northeast of Queenstown on the West Coast Range and in 1863 named by the geologist Charles Gould after his colleagues Charles Lyell, who was a supporter of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The higher peaks of the West Coast Range were named after opponents of this theory, the lower by the proponents.

North of the Mount Lyell is the Mount Sedgwick, south of Mount Owen.

The Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, a company for mining and railways in the West Coast Range, was often referred to only briefly 'Mount Lyell Company '.

The mining activities at the Mount Lyell Company focused on the mountain ridge between Mount Lyell and Mount Owen and the west side of the mountain. On the east side of the shoulder was the mining area of ​​the old North Mount Lyell, where the 1912 fire disaster happened.

In earlier days, there was a small mine on the north side of the mountain, the Comstock Mine. Was in the 1970s, there was a reduction section just to the west of the old Comstock Mine, the Cape Horn called - the west end of Mount Lyell was named Cape Horn Trail.

There was a rail track which led from Linda from around the southern, eastern and northern flank of the mountain. However, he was never put into operation.

The flanks of Mount Lyell were ravaged by forest fires and heavy rain and damaged by the exhaust gases of the furnaces. The remaining vegetation and tree stumps lend particular the southern flank of the mountain a strange appearance.

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• Geoffrey Blainey: The Peaks of Lyell, 6th edition, St. David 's Park Publishing, Hobart, 2000, ISBN 0-7246-2265-9.
• Charles Whitham: Western Tasmania: A Land of Riches and Beauty.

• Mountain in Australia and Oceania
• Mountain in Tasmania
• Mountain under 1000 meters