West Coast Range - Historical Features and Recent Sites

Historical Features and Recent Sites

Tramways and Railways

• Comstock Tram around the slopes of Mount Lyell - not to be confused with a tramway with same name out of Zeehan.
• Lake Margaret Tram at western side of Mount Sedgwick
• North Mount Lyell Railway Linda Valley, along King River Valley,

through the Crotty and Darwin townsites to Pillinger and Kelly Basin.

Townsites

• Crotty on the eastern slopes of Mount Jukes
• Darwin on the eastern slopes of Mount Darwin
• Gormanston on the northern slopes of Mount Owen
• Lake Margaret precinct
• Linda in the Linda Valley between Mounts Owen and Lyell
• Tullah amidst Lake Rosebery
• Rosebery
• Williamsford

Mine sites

• Henty Gold Mine
• Mount Jukes Mine sites on the upper slopes -including 'Lake Jukes Mine'

Hydro sites

• Anthony Power Station
• Bastyan Power Station
• Crotty Dam
• Darwin Dam
• John Butters Power Station
• Lake Margaret Power Station

• Franklin River proposed power development - cancelled in the 1980s
• Gordon River proposed power development - cancelled in the 1980s

Main Roads

• Lyell Highway in the Linda Valley between Mounts Owen and Lyell
• The Henty River Rd From Henty Glacial Moraine to the Lake Murchison Dam (Anthony Power Station) and Tullah

• Walking Tracks

Numerous historic walking tracks blazed in the nineteenth century, and the twentieth century exist throughout the Range - some survive, some are overgrown.

C. Binks Explorers of Western Tasmania, has an Appendix 'The exploration tracks 1880-1910' which is a thorough examination of the record.

The most famous of the track makers was Thomas Bather Moore. He named many features including Mount Strahan, the Thureau Hills and the Tofft River.