Mount Huxley (Tasmania)

Mount Huxley
Mount Huxley, taken from the Queenstown airport
Highest point
Elevation926 m (3,038 ft)
Coordinates42°08′24″S 145°35′24″E / 42.14000°S 145.59000°E / -42.14000; 145.59000 (Mount Huxley)[1]
Geography
Mount Huxley is located in Tasmania
Mount Huxley
Mount Huxley
Location in Tasmania
LocationWest Coast, Tasmania, Australia
Parent rangeWest Coast Range
Topo mapOwen: 3833

Mount Huxley is a mountain located on the West Coast Range in the West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia. With an elevation of 926 metres (3,038 ft) above sea level, the mountain was named by Charles Gould in 1863 in honour of Professor Thomas Henry Huxley.[2]

One of the smaller peaks in the West Coast Range, the mountain comprises a large 200-metre (660 ft) outcrop and rock face on its southern side above the King River Gorge just west of the Crotty Dam – parts of which are visible along the river gorge from the West Coast Wilderness Railway where it commences following the King River.[2]

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