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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: West Coast Range, 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster, Queenstown, Tasmania, Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, Queen River, Tullah, Tasmania, Lake Burbury, King River, North Mount Lyell Railway, Lake Margaret Tram, North East Dundas Tramway, Mount Jukes, Gormanston, Tasmania, Mount Read, Dundas, Tasmania, Mount Dundas - Zeehan Railway, Henty Gold Mine, Crotty, Tasmania, Mount Jukes Mine sites, Mount Darwin, Iron Blow, Mount Owen, Linda, Tasmania, Mount Huxley, Mount Sedgwick, Linda Valley, Tyndall Range, Lake Beatrice, Williamsford, Tasmania, Mount Tyndall, Mount Sorell, Lake Selina, Darwin Dam, Mount Murchison, John Butters Hydroelectric Power Station, Lake Dora, Henty River, Lake Westwood, Montezuma Falls, Lake Mackintosh, Darwin Townsite, Tasmania, Anthony Power Development, Mackintosh River, Sophia River. Excerpt: The West Coast Range ( ) of Tasmania is a group of mountains in the West Coast area of Tasmania in Australia that lies to the west of the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park The range has had a significant number of mines utilising the geologically rich zone of Mount Read Volcanics. A number of adjacent ranges lie to the east: the Engineer Range, the Raglan Range, the Eldon Range, and the Sticht Range but in most cases these are on a west-east alignment, while the West Coast Range runs in a north-south direction, following the Mount Read volcanic arc. The range has encompassed multiple land uses including the catchment area for Hydro Tasmania dams, mines, transport routes and historical sites. Of the communities that have existed actually in the range itself, Gormanston, is probably the last to remain. These are determined by a number of factors - the southerly direction of glaciation in the King River Valley and around the Tyndalls As well as the general north -south orientation of the West Co...
