Mount Huxley (Tasmania)

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Mount Huxley
Elevation
Location	West Coast, Tasmania
Range	West Coast Range
Coordinates	42°8′ S 145°35′ E (-42.133333333333, 145.58333333333)

Mount Huxley, Tasmania is a Mountain in the West Coast Range, Tasmania 926 metres, named by Charles Gould in 1863 after Professor Thomas Henry Huxley.

A smaller of the west coast range mountains, with a large 200 metre outcrop/rock face on its southern side above the King River gorge just west of the Crotty Dam - parts of which are visible along the river gorge from the West Coast Wilderness Railway where it commences following the King River.

1 Location
2 References
3 Map source
4 External links

[edit] Location

North of the King River Gorge, and Crotty dam.
North of Mount Jukes
West of the Tofft River and Thureau Hills
West of Lake Burbury, Tasmania
South of Mount Owen
South of Queenstown

[edit] References

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