Mount Jukes (Tasmania)

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Mount Jukes
Elevation 1,104 metres (3,622 ft)
Location West Coast, Tasmania
Range West Coast Range
Coordinates 42°10′S 145°34′E / -42.167, 145.567Coordinates: 42°10′S 145°34′E / -42.167, 145.567

Mount Jukes 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.

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[edit] Road

Mount Jukes Road (22 km length) [1] was constructed by the Hydro in the 1980's 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] Notes

  1. ^ HEC (no date) King River Power Development p.12 Construction Highlights

[edit] References

2003 edition - Queenstown: Municipality of Queenstown.
1949 edition - Hobart: Davies Brothers. OCLC 48825404; ASIN B000FMPZ80
1924 edition - Queenstown: Mount Lyell Tourist Association. OCLC 35070001; ASIN B0008BM4XC

[edit] Map Reference

  • Tasmania 1: 25 000 series maps
    • Owen 3833 (Edition 2 2001) - for northern part
    • Darwin 3832 - for southern part