Mount Jukes (Tasmania)

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Mount Jukes
Elevation	1104 metres
Location	West Coast, Tasmania
Range	West Coast Range
Coordinates	42°52′S, 145°22′E

Mount Jukes (42°10′S 145°34′ECoordinates: 42°10′S 145°34′E) is a mountain in the West Coast Range on the West Coast of Tasmania, Australia. It was named by Charles Gould in 1862 after Professor Joseph Beete Jukes, English geologist, who was involved in issues relating to Charles Darwin. Jukes had visited Hobart in 1842-3 on HMS Fly.

With multiple peaks, and glacial lakes on its upper eastern reaches, Mount Jukes was the mountain above the town of Crotty and is west of what is now Lake Burbury.

It has had mines and small mining camps adjacent to the lakes, and on the northern upper slopes, near where the Mount Jukes road traverses the upper slopes of the King River Gorge.

Mount Jukes Road was constructed by the Hydro at the time the Crotty Dam was made, it connects southern Queenstown with Darwin Dam, where the previously utilised North Mount Lyell Railway formation between the Linda Valley and Crotty was submerged by Lake Burbury.

[edit] Peaks and spurs

East Jukes Peak - 731 metres - closest to King River Gorge and the Crotty Dam
Proprietary Peak - 1104 metres - north west of main part of Mount Jukes.

Crown Spur
East Jukes Spur

West Coast Range

[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.