The Frankland Range is a mountain range in South West Tasmania

Tasmania

Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

, Australia

Australia

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. It is a less popular site of bushwalking than other, more famous, ranges in Tasmania's South West, and is for much more advanced walkers due to its length, isolation and terrain.

It bordered on the north by the impoundment

Reservoir

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 Lake Pedder

Lake Pedder

Lake Pedder was once a natural lake, located in the southwest of Tasmania, Australia but the name is now used in an official sense to refer to the much larger artificial impoundment and diversion lake formed when the original lake was expanded by damming in 1972 by the Hydro Electric Commission of...

. Access routes are by boat from the lake, or the roads at Strathgordon

Strathgordon, Tasmania

Strathgordon is a locality in Tasmania, Australia at the end of the Gordon River Road, the most south westerly road in the south west of Tasmania.It is remote by Tasmanian standards with the nearest basic services away along a winding road at Maydena....

 or Scotts Peak Dam

Scotts Peak Dam

The Scotts Peak Dam was one of the three component dams in the flooding of the original Lake Pedder in South West Tasmania, Australia. Completed in 1973, the dam is high, long, spanning across the upper reaches of the Huon River....

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Notable Peaks

• Redtop Peak
  Redtop Peak
  Redtop Peak is a mountain in South West Tasmania. It lies on the North West end of the Frankland Range and the South West end of the Madonna Ridge above the impoundment Lake Pedder, to the west of The Cupola....
  
  
• The Cupola (mountain)
  The Cupola (mountain)
  The Cupola is a mountain in South West Tasmania. It lies on the North West end of the Frankland Range, to the East of Redtop Peak. It juts out from the range towards the impoundment Lake Pedder....
  
  
• The Lion (mountain)
  The Lion (mountain)
  The Lion is a mountain in South West Tasmania. It lies on the North West end of the Frankland Range jutting out towards the East from the range towards the impoundment Lake Pedder. It is directly South of The Cupola and North of The Citadel....
  
  
• The Citadel (mountain)
  The Citadel (mountain)
  The Citadel is a mountain in South West Tasmania. It lies on the North East end of the Frankland Range jutting out towards the East from the range towards the impoundment Lake Pedder. It is directly South of The Lion and West of Murpheys Bluff. It forms the South Eastern border of The Moat, an...
  
  
• Murpheys Bluff
  Murpheys Bluff
  Murpheys Bluff is a mountain in South West Tasmania. It lies on the North West end of the Frankland Range jutting out towards the East from the range towards the impoundment Lake Pedder. It is directly East of The Citadel and North West of Cleft Peak. It towers above Bluff Tarn to the North West....
  
  
• Cleft Peak
  Cleft Peak
  Murpheys Bluff is a mountain in South West Tasmania. It lies on the North West end of the Frankland Range jutting out towards the East from the range towards the impoundment Lake Pedder. It is South East of Murpheys Bluff and North West of Greycap....
  
  
• Greycap
• Frankland Peak
  Frankland Peak
  Frankland Peak is a mountain in South West Tasmania. It lies on the southeastern end of the Frankland Range near the impoundment Lake Pedder. It is west of Secheron Peak and north of Right Angle Peak....
  
  
• Mount Lloyd Jones
  Mount Lloyd Jones
  Mount Lloyd Jones is a mountain in South West Tasmania. It lies on the South East end of the Frankland Range jutting out towards the East from the range towards the impoundment Lake Pedder. It is West of the end of the ridge line leading to the edge of Lake Pedder at Terminal Peak and North East...
  
  
• Right Angle Peak
  Right Angle Peak
  Right Angle Peak is a mountain in South West Tasmania. It lies to the South East of the Frankland Range near the impoundment Lake Pedder. It is surrounded by small lakes such as Lake Surprise to the East. It is South West of Secheron Peak....
  
  
• Secheron Peak
  Secheron Peak
  Secheron Peak is a mountain in South West Tasmania. It lies on the southeastern end of the Frankland Range near the impoundment Lake Pedder. It is east of Frankland Peak and towers over Lake Surprise to the north. Right Angle Peak lies one kilometre to the southwest....
  
  
• Terminal Peak
  Terminal Peak
  Terminal Peak is a mountain in South West Tasmania. It lies on the north east end of the Frankland Range jutting out towards the east from a ridge off the range towards the impoundment Lake Pedder. It is east of Mount Lloyd Jones and north west of Mount Jim Brown. It overlooks Mount Solitary,...
  
  

Nearby Ranges

• Wilmot Range
• Tribulation Ridge
• Companion Range
• Folded Range
• Arthur Range
  Arthur Range
  The Arthur Range is a mountain range in the South West Wilderness, Tasmania, Australia. The range is broken into two main section, the Western Arthurs and the Eastern Arthurs...