Mount Geikie (Tasmania) Explained

Mount Geikie
Map:Australia Tasmania
Map Relief:1
Map Size:280
Elevation M:1191
Elevation Ref:[1] [2]
Location:Western Tasmania, Australia
Range:West Coast Range
Coordinates:-41.97°N 145.57°W

Mount Geikie is a mountain in the West Coast Range of Western Tasmania, Australia.[3]

Mount Geikie has an elevation of above sea level.[2]

Location and features

Mount Geikie sits just north of Lake Margaret, and is just west of the smaller tributary lakes of Lake Margaret – Lake Mary, Lake Martha, and Lake Magdala. The east face of Mount Geikie area has two named features that lie to the north and south. The Chin at lies to the south, and is the point where the West Coast Range dips to the glacial features known as the Hamilton moraine. The Bastion at is part of a glaciated wall that extends north.[4]

The surrounding high ground to the north of Mount Geikie is often known as 'The Tyndalls' or confused with Mount Tyndall.[5] The area is at the northern end of a block of mountains that are north of Mount Sedgwick which sits above the first large glacial valley between Mount Sedgwick and Mount Lyell. The 'Tyndalls' have a number of glacial lakes, and lies south east of the Henty Gold-Mine, and Hydro Tasmania dam on the Henty River – and south of Lake Mackintosh, Lake Murchison and Tullah.

See also

Bibliography

. Blainey, Geoffrey . Geoffrey Blainey . The Peaks of Lyell . 6th . St. David's Park Publishing . Hobart. 2000. 0-7246-2265-9.

. Charles Whitham . Whitham, Charles . Western Tasmania: A Land of Riches and Beauty .

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: LISTmap (Mount Geikie) . Tasmanian Government Department of Primary Industries and Water . 25 March 2008 .
  2. 23618 . Mount Geikie, Australia . meters . 7 June 2015 .
  3. The West Coast Range, Tasmania: Mountains and Geological Giants . 1–13 . 0080-4703 . Baillie, Peter . Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania . 144 . 2010 . . Hobart, Tasmania . reprint . 18 June 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150616083904/http://eprints.utas.edu.au/15988/1/baillie-west-coast-range-2010.pdf . 16 June 2015 . dead .
  4. 1:25,0000 . Tyndall 3835 . Tasmania. Dept. of Primary Industries and Water . TASMAP . 2007 . Tasmap publication by the Dept. of Primary Industries and Water . 2nd . 21 June 2012 .
  5. In the 1890s the distinction was made before official recognition of the name – see News: ROYAL SOCIETY OF TASMANIA. . . Hobart, Tasmania . 11 April 1893 . 9 June 2012 . 4 . National Library of Australia. – and the comment in that article – "It will be observed that Mount Geikie is a distinct mountain from Mount Tyndal (name conferred by the Hon. J. R. Scott), is separated by water channels, and is 75ft. higher".