Mount Jukes (Tasmania)

Mount Jukes
Aerial photograph of lower slopes of Mount Huxley (to the left), King River gorge in the left lower, Crotty Dam and Lake Burbury (to the rear), northern slopes (that is Proprietary Peak) of Mount Jukes on the right, Mount Jukes Road in right foreground, and to the right rear the different coloured upper part of East Jukes Peak.
Highest point
Elevation	1,168 m (3,832 ft) ^[1]
Prominence	911 m (2,989 ft) ^[1]
Isolation	23.09 km (14.35 mi) ^[1]
Coordinates	42°10′12″S 145°34′48″E / 42.17000°S 145.58000°E / -42.17000; 145.58000Coordinates: 42°10′12″S 145°34′48″E / 42.17000°S 145.58000°E / -42.17000; 145.58000 ^[2]
Geography
Mount Jukes Location in Tasmania
Location	West Coast, Tasmania, Australia
Parent range	Jukes Range, West Coast Range
Topo map	Owen 3833 Darwin 3832
Geology
Age of rock	Jurassic

Mount Jukes is a mountain located on the Jukes Range, a spur off the West Coast Range, in the West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia.^[3]

With an elevation of 1,168 metres (3,832 ft) above sea level,^[1] with multiple peaks, and glacial lakes on its upper eastern reaches, Mount Jukes is situated above the town of Crotty and is west of Lake Burbury.

The mountain was named by Charles Gould in 1862 in honour of Professor Joseph Jukes, an English geologist who gathered evidence to part afforded support for Charles Darwin's theories of coral reefs. Jukes had visited Hobart in 1842-3 on HMS Fly.^[3]

Mines

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.

Access and features

The Mount Jukes Road (22 kilometres (14 mi) in length)^[4] was constructed by the Hydro in the 1980s 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.

Two named glacial lakes in the upper part of the eastern side of the mountain are the Upper Lake Jukes and the Lower Lake Jukes. It is by the lakes that a number of small mines were started in the early years of the twentieth century.

Mount Huxley is located to the north and Mount Darwin is located to the south.

Peaks and spurs

Mount Jukes has a number of named features:^[5]^[6]^[7]

Jukes Range^[8] – the ridge between Proprietary Peak in the north, and South Jukes Peak
Mount Jukes – 1,168 metres (3,832 ft)^[1]
Proprietary Peak^[9] – 1,104 metres (3,622 ft), north west of main part of Mount Jukes, with the Crown Spur the most noticeable feature when viewed from the town of Queenstown to the north.
Pyramid Peak^[10] – 1,080 metres (3,540 ft)
West Jukes Peak^[11] – 1,062 metres (3,484 ft)
South Jukes Peak^[12] – 1,014 metres (3,327 ft)
East Jukes Peak^[13] – 731 metres (2,398 ft), closest to King River Gorge and the Crotty Dam, and to the north of the Mount Jukes Road.
Central Peak^[14]

Some other named features include Yellow Knob, Yellow Knob Spur, South Jukes Spur, Crown Spur, East Jukes Spur, Intercolonial Spur, Cliff Spur, and Newall Spur.

Mount Jukes western side with pink and grey conglomerate folds

References

1 2 3 4 5 "Mount Jukes, Australia". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
↑ "Mount Jukes (TAS)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
1 2 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.
↑ HEC (no date) King River Power Development p.12 Construction Highlights
↑ Franklin (Map) (6 ed.). 1:100,000. Tasmap. 1997. Sheet 8013.
↑ Darwin (Map) (2 ed.). 1:25,000. Tasmap. 1999. Sheet 3832.
↑ Owen (Map) (2 ed.). 1:25,000. Tasmap. 2001. Sheet 3833.
↑ "Jukes Range (TAS)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
↑ "Proprietary Peak (TAS)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
↑ "Pyramid Peak (TAS)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
↑ "West Jukes Peak (TAS)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
↑ "South Jukes Peak (TAS)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
↑ "East Jukes Peak (TAS)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
↑ "Central Peak (TAS)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.

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Whitham, Charles (2003). Western Tasmania - A land of riches and beauty (Reprint 2003 ed.). Queenstown: Municipality of Queenstown.

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

Governance

Mountains

West
Coast
Range

Tyndall	Geikie Tyndall

Eldon	Eldon Peak

Engineer	unnamed peak

Raglan	unnamed peak

Sticht	unnamed peak

National parks

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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

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Mount Jukes (Tasmania)

Mines

Access and features

Peaks and spurs

See also

References

Further reading