Mount Lyell (Tasmania) Totally Explained

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Mount Lyell is a mountain in the West Coast Range, Tasmania, named by Charles Gould in 1863 Charles Lyell was named during the nineteenth century controversy about the theory of evolution put forward by Charles Darwin, Lyell was a supporter of Darwin's.
   It was also the common short name of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company.
   The Mount Lyell company operations centred mainly on the shoulder between Mount Owen and Mount Lyell, and to the western side of the mountain. On the eastern side of the shoulder was the old North Mount Lyell workings, where there had been the 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster There was a small operation in the early days of the mining operation that was on the northern side of Mount Lyell, known as the Comstock mine. In the late twentieth century, just west of the Comstock workings was a section of the mine known as Cape Horn. The western end of the mountain has been named 'Cape Horn Spur' - the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company had a mine called Cape Horn in the 1970's at the west end of this spur.
   There was a unique rail formation that travelled from Linda in the Linda Valley, around the southern, eastern and northern sides of Mount Lyell. It was built (the formation) but the line was never utilised.
   The sides of the mountain were subjected to bush fires, smelter fumes and high rainfall, consequently the resultant vegetation and the legacy of tree stumps give the southern sides of the mountain a unique appearance. West Coast Range context

North - Mount Sedgwick
Mount Lyell
South - Mount Owen

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