| Mount Jukes | |
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&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Northside_of_Jukes.jpg) 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[2] |
| Geography | |
&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Relief_Map_of_Tasmania.png)  Mount Jukes Location in Tasmania | |
| Location | West Coast, Tasmania, Australia |
| Parent range | Jukes Range, West Coast Range |
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| 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]
- ^ a b c d "Mount Jukes, Australia". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
- ^ "Mount Jukes (TAS)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
- ^ a b Baillie, Peter (2010). "The West Coast Range, Tasmania: Mountains and Geological Giants" (PDF). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. 144 (reprint ed.). Hobart, Tasmania: University of Tasmania: 1–13. ISSN 0080-4703. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 June 2015. Retrieved 18 June 2015.