Mount Murchison (Tasmania)

Mount Murchison
Mount Murchison Location in Tasmania
Highest point
Elevation	1,275 m (4,183 ft) ^[1]
Coordinates	42°48′00″S 145°36′36″E / 42.80000°S 145.61000°E / -42.80000; 145.61000 ^[2]
Geography
Location	Western Tasmania, Australia
Parent range	West Coast Range
Geology
Age of rock	Jurassic

Mount Murchison is a mountain on the West Coast Range located in the West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia.

At 1,275 metres (4,183 ft) above sea level, it is the highest mountain in the range and within the top thirty highest mountains in Tasmania.^[1]

Location and features

Lying close to the Williamsford and Tullah mining areas, the mountain is often found referred to in early photographs.^[3] It lies east of Zeehan, and Mount Read,^[4] and north of Mount Tyndall.

The geology of the ground around the mountain relates to the range of mining activities nearby.^[5]

A popular walking track leads to the summit.

It was named by Charles Gould in the early 1860s.^[6]

References

1 2 "Mount Murchison, Australia". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
↑ "Mount Murchison (TAS)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
↑ "PICTURESQUE TASMANIA: MOUNT MURCHISON, LOOKING EAST FROM WILLIAMSFORD-ROAD.". The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946) (Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia). 18 February 1905. p. 27. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
↑ "OPENING UP NEW COUNTRY.". Zeehan and Dundas Herald (Tas. : 1890 - 1922) (Tas.: National Library of Australia). 23 May 1912. p. 2. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
↑ McNiell, A W; Corbett, Keith D; Tasmania. Division of Mines and Mineral Resources; Mt. Read Volcanics Project (1992), Geology and mineralisation of the Mt Murchison area (MRVP map 4), Department of Mines & Mineral Resources, ISBN 978-0-7246-2147-7
↑ Baillie, Peter (2010). "The West Coast Range, Tasmania: Mountains and Geological Giants" (PDF). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania (reprint ed.) (Hobart, Tasmania: University of Tasmania) 144: 1–13. ISSN 0080-4703. Retrieved 18 June 2015.

Bibliography

Banks, M.R. and Kirkpatrick, J.B. Editors. Landscape and Man, the interaction between man and environment in Western Tasmania.
Binks, C.J. (1980). Explorers of Western Tasmania. Launceston: Mary Fisher Bookshop. ISBN 0-908291-16-7.
Blainey, Geoffrey (2000). The Peaks of Lyell (6th ed.). Hobart: St. David's Park Publishing. ISBN 0-7246-2265-9.
Whitham, Charles (2003). Western Tasmania - A land of riches and beauty (Reprint 2003 ed.). Queenstown: Municipality of Queenstown.
Whitham, Lindsay (2002). Railways, Mines, Pubs and People and other historical research. Sandy Bay: Tasmanian Historical Research Association. ISBN 0-909479-21-6.

Mountains in Tasmania, Australia

Ben Lomond Range

Legges Tor (1,572 m or 5,157 ft)
Giblin Peak (1,569 m or 5,148 ft)
Markham Heights (1,542 m or 5,059 ft)
Hamilton Crags (1,540 m or 5,052 ft)
Stacks Bluff (1,527 m or 5,010 ft)
Misery Bluff (1,520 m or 4,987 ft)
Ossian’s Throne (1,498 m or 4,915 ft)
Coalmine Crag (1,498 m or 4,915 ft)
Magnet Crag (1,464 m or 4,803 ft)

Du Cane Range

unnamed peak (1,520 m or 4,987 ft)
Geryon North (1,516 m or 4,974 ft)
Massif (1,514 m or 4,967 ft)
Geryon South (1,509 m or 4,951 ft)
Gould (1,485 m or 4,872 ft)
Castle Crag (1,482 m or 4,862 ft)
Thetis (1,482 m or 4,862 ft)
The Acropolis (1,481 m or 4,859 ft)

Eldon Range

Eldon Peak (1,440 m or 4,724 ft)
Eldon Bluff

Great Western Tiers

Ironstone (1,443 m or 4,734 ft)

Pelion Range

Ossa (1,614 m or 5,295 ft)
Pelion West (1,560 m or 5,118 ft)
Pelion East (1,461 m or 4,793 ft)

Wellington Range

Kunanyi / Wellington (1,269 m or 4,163 ft)

West Coast Range

Murchison (1,275 m or 4,183 ft)
Jukes (1,168 m or 3,832 ft)
Sedgwick (1,147 m or 3,763 ft)
Owen (1,146 m or 3,760 ft)
Sorell (1,144 m or 3,753 ft)
Dundas (1,143 m or 3,750 ft)
Read (1,124 m or 3,688 ft)
Proprietary Peak (1,103 m or 3,619 ft)
Hamilton (1,103 m or 3,619 ft)
Darwin (1,031 m or 3,383 ft)

Tyndall	Geikie (1,191 m or 3,907 ft) Tyndall (1,179 m or 3,868 ft)

Sticht	unnamed peak (1,080 m or 3,543 ft)

Not in a defined range

Frenchmans Cap (1,446 m or 4,744 ft)

Western region of Tasmania, Australia

Cities
and other settlements

Queenstown

Crotty

Darwin

Dundas

Gormanston

Guildford

Linda

Pillinger

Regatta Point

Rosebery

Strahan

Tullah

Waratah

Williamsford

Zeehan

Governance

Mountains

West
Coast
Range

Tyndall	Geikie Tyndall

Eldon	Eldon Peak

Engineer	unnamed peak

Raglan	unnamed peak

Sticht	unnamed peak

National parks

Rivers

Lakes

Dams

Power stations

Transport

Railways	Emu Bay Macquarie Heads breakwater Melba Mount Dundas – Zeehan North East Dundas North Mount Lyell Strahan–Zeehan Wee Georgie Wood West Coast Wilderness

Locomotives and rolling stock	TGR G class (1896) TGR K class

Railway stations and former railway stations	Queenstown Regatta Point Zeehan

Landmarks

Natural	Birchs Inlet Cape Sorell Darwin Crater Granville Harbour Hells Gates Iron Blow Kelly Basin Linda Valley Macquarie Harbour Montezuma Falls Nelson Falls Ocean Beach Trial Harbour

Man-made	Cape Sorell Lighthouse Galley Museum Queenstown Oval

People of note

Mining

Books and newspapers

other

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Mount Murchison (Tasmania)

Location and features

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References

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