Mount Sedgwick (Tasmania)

Mount Sedgwick
Peak of Mount Sedgwick from the south in the 1970s
Highest point
Elevation1,147 m (3,763 ft)
Coordinates42°00′00″S 145°36′36″E / 42.00000°S 145.61000°E / -42.00000; 145.61000[1]
Geography
Mount Sedgwick is located in Tasmania
Mount Sedgwick
Mount Sedgwick
Location in Tasmania
LocationWest Coast, Tasmania, Australia
Parent rangeWest Coast Range
Geology
Rock age(s)Jurassic, Permian and Palaeozoic
Mountain typeDolerite
Climbing
Easiest routefrom Lake Margaret Power Station

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

It lies in line behind Mount Lyell in views from high points in Queenstown and from the roads leading out to Strahan and Zeehan. Bands of the pink and grey coloured conglomerate show strikingly on its south west slopes. Its western and south western slopes are significantly more precipitous and rocky, compared to the once heavily forested southern and south eastern slopes.[2]

  1. ^ "Mount Sedgwick (TAS)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
  2. ^ 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.