Mount Jukes (Tasmania)

Aerial view with the lower slopes of Mount Huxley (left), the King River Gorge (bottom left), the Crotty Dam and Lake Burbury (in the background ), the Proprietary peak of Mount Jukes (right), Mount Jukes Road ( right front) and the other colored upper part of the East Jukes peak (right rear)

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 in 1862 by Professor Joseph beds Jukes, a British geologist, named by Charles Gould. Jukes was involved in the discussion and Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and Hobart had visited in the years 1842-1843 on HMS "Fly".

The vielgipflige mountain with the glacier lakes on its eastern flank was above the old settlement, ' Crotty '' and is now west of Lake Burbury.

Mining

On the shores of the lakes there were small mining camp, as well as the top of the northern flank, where the ' Mount Jukes Road '' the upper slopes of the King River Gorge crosses.

Road

The 22 km long Mount Jukes Road was built in the 1980s by Hydro Tasmania, as the Crotty Dam was built. It connects the southern ororte of Queenstown with the Darwin Dam, where the tracks of the former North Mount Lyell Railway disappeared between the Valley and Linda Crotty Lake Burbury.

Summit

The Mount Jukes has a number of specially designated peaks.

  • Jukes Range - ie, the mountain range between Proprietary Peak to the north and Jukes Peak in the south.
  • East Jukes Peak - 731 m - the King River Gorge and the Crotty Dam on the next and north of Mount Jukes Road
  • Proprietary peak - 1,104 m - most northwestern main summit of Mount Jukes, from the Crown trail as most striking 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

More details are indeed expressed by name, but no ups:

  • Yellow Knob
  • Yellow Knob track
  • South Jukes track
  • Crown trail
  • East Jukes track
  • Intercolonial track
  • Cliff track
  • Newall track

Lakes

There are two glacial lakes in the upper part of the eastern flank:

  • Upper Lake Jukes
  • Lower Lake Jukes

On the banks of these lakes formed at the beginning of the 20th century a number of small mines.

Swell

  • Geoffrey Blainey: The Peaks of Lyell, 6th edition, St. David 's Park Publishing, Hobart, 2000, ISBN 0-7246-2265-9.
  • Crawford, Patsy King: The Story of a River. Montpelier Press, 2000, ISBN 1-876597-02- X.
  • Charles Whitham: Western Tasmania - A land of riches and beauty, Reprint 2003, Municipality of Queenstown, Queenstown 2003.

Maps

  • Tasmap 1: 25 000: Owen, leaf 3833 (2nd edition 2001) - for the northern part
  • Darwin, Journal of 3832 - for the southern part
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