Mount Owen (Tasmania)

Northeast part of Mount Owen on the Lake Burbury

Mount Owen is a mountain in the west of the Australian state of Tasmania. It is located in the West Coast Range, just east of Queenstown.

As the West Coast Range mountains most of it was named by the geologist Charles Gould, after Richard Owen. The higher mountains are named after the opponents of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and the lower by their proponents. The north-western slopes of the mountain are clearly visible from Gormanston and Linda from the Valley of

Details

A map in Geoffrey Blaineys book, The Peaks of Lyell from the period 1900-1910 called the northwestern North summit track. The northern slopes, you can clearly see from the Lyell Highway, display a high degree of erosion due to forest fires, exhaust gases from the furnaces and heavy rainfall.

The mountain has in the upper part of its eastern flank of small glacial lakes, which show the degree of the former glaciation in the valley of the King River.

The western slopes are emerging in Queenstown in winter are regularly covered with snow.

The eastern flank of the north-eastern summit "hangs" on the west bank of Lake Burbury and formerly ran the tracks of the North Mount Lyell Railway under her.

Access

On the north-west summit (North Trail ) there are converters for television and telephone. For the construction of these facilities an access road for motor vehicles emerged.

Eastern flank of Mount Owen from the eastern shore of Lake Burbury from

Swell

• Geoffrey Blainey: The Peaks of Lyell, 6th ed, St. David 's Park Publishing, Hobart, 2000, ISBN 0-7246-2265-9.
• Charles Whitham: Western Tasmania - A land of riches and beauty, Reprint 2003, Municipality of Queenstown, Queenstown 2003.

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