Mount Sorell

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The Mount Sorell is a mountain in the west of the Australian state of Tasmania. He is the most south-western summit of the West Coast Range and was was after William Sorell (1775-1848), the British soldier and third Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land.

Its eastern flank dominates the valley of the Clark River, which separates it from Mount Darwin.

Due to its location, its appearance and its dominance over the Macquarie Harbour just northeast of the Sarah Island the mountain received its name very early and drove safely to the prisoners on the island through its barrier effect any thought of escape from. Some say from the time the prison island to tell that you had iron shackles and other things found in the search for escaped prisoner on the slopes of Mount Sorell.

Unlike all other mountains of the West Coast Range at Mount Sorell no mines, access ways or other manifestations of human civilization arose.

The promontory in the outer part of the Hells Gates at the entrance to Macquarie Harbour is called Cape Sorell.

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• Blainey, Geoffrey: 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.

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