Queen River

Queen River in Queenstown

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The Queen River is a river in the west of the Australian state of Tasmania.

Geography

River

The river rises on the southwest slopes of Mount Lyell northeast of Queenstown. From there, it flows south, crosses under the Lyell Highway and crosses the city. Approx. 3 km east of the settlement Rinadeena, about 8 km south of Queenstown, it flows into the King River.

Tributaries with muzzle heights

• Princess Creek - 76 m

Water pollution

About 80 years ago, had the Queen River Record unexplained the overburden of the mines of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company and the waste water of the city. It is believed that in this way about 100 million tons of mining waste was shipped into the river, which was then introduced into the lower reaches of the King River and so led to the formation of a delta in Macquarie Harbour.

The Mount Lyell Remediation and Research and Demonstration Program, made ​​a few years ago that catch basin for the spoil from the mines were created and thus decreased the waste and sewage discharges into the river. This has now again a rust-brown color and is no longer silver gray as before.

Railway

Along the river runs a part of the route of the old rack railway, which was abandoned in the 1960s and built up again in the meantime and is operated as a West Coast Wilderness Railway for tourists.

South of Queenstown, the settlement Lynch Ford is on the river, where a gold mine and other mines were operated in the first days of the railroad.

Swell

• Geoffrey Blainey: The Peaks of Lyell, 6th edition, St. David 's Park Publishing, Hobart, 2000, ISBN 0-7246-2265-9.
• P. Davies, N. Mitchell and L. Barmuta: The impact of historical mining operations at Mount Lyell on the water quality and biological health of the King and Queen River catchments, western Tasmania. Mount Lyell Remediation Research and Demonstration Program. Supervising Scientist Report 118 Supervising Scientist. Canberra ( 1996). ISBN 0-642-24317-4
• CV McQuade, JF Johnston and SM Innes: Review of historical literature and data on the sources and quality of effluent from the Mount Lyell lease site Mount Lyell Remediation Research and Demonstration Program. Supervising Scientist Report 104 Supervising Scientist. Canberra. ISBN 0-642-24303-4
• 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, Municipality of Queenstown, Queenstown 2003.