Mount Jukes is a mountain in the West Coast Range

West Coast Range (Tasmania)

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...

 on the West Coast

West Coast, Tasmania

The West Coast of Tasmania is the part of the state that is strongly associated with wilderness, mining and tourism, rough country and isolation...

 of 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

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. It was named by Charles Gould

Charles Gould (geologist)

Charles Gould was the first Geological Surveyor of Tasmania 1859-69.He was born on the 4th June 1834 in England He conducted three expeditions into Western Tasmania in the 1860's.He named many of the mountains on the West Coast Range....

 in 1862 after Professor Joseph Beete Jukes, English geologist, who was involved in issues relating to Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...

. Jukes had visited Hobart in 1842-3 on HMS Fly.

With multiple peaks, and glacial lakes on its upper eastern reaches, Mount Jukes was the mountain above the town of Crotty

Crotty, Tasmania

Crotty was a gazetted townsite in Western Tasmania, which had a smelter and railway connection with the North Mount Lyell mine in the very early twentieth century. The North Mount Lyell smelters failed, and the company was absorbed by the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company...

 and is west of what is now Lake Burbury

Lake Burbury

Lake Burbury is a man-made lake created by the Crotty Dam made by Hydro Tasmania inundating the upper King River valley that lies east of the West Coast Range. It has a surface area of 54 square kilometres....

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Mines

It has had mines and small mining camps

Mount Jukes Mine sites

The Mount Jukes Mine sites were a series of short-lived, small mine workings high on the upper regions of Mount Jukes in the West Coast Range on the West Coast of Tasmania, Australia....

 adjacent to the lakes, and on the northern upper slopes, near where the Mount Jukes road traverses the upper slopes of the King River

King River (Tasmania)

- Upper reaches :It rises in the vicinity of the Eldon Range, passes through the West Coast Range between Mount Huxley and Mount Jukes and empties in Macquarie Harbour near Strahan....

 Gorge.

Road

Mount Jukes Road (22 km length) was constructed by the Hydro

Hydro Tasmania

Hydro Tasmania, known for most of its history as The HEC, is the government owned enterprise which is the predominant electricity generator in the state of Tasmania, Australia...

 in the 1980s at the time the Crotty Dam was made. It connects southern Queenstown

Queenstown, Tasmania

Queenstown is a town in the West Coast region of the island of Tasmania. It is located in a valley on western slopes of Mount Owen on the West Coast Range.It had a population of 5,119 people . At the 2006 census, Queenstown had a population of 2,117....

 with Darwin Dam, where the previously utilised North Mount Lyell Railway

North Mount Lyell Railway

The North Mount Lyell Railway was built to service the North Mount Lyell mine in West Coast Tasmania at the start of the Twentieth century to take ore from Gormanston east of the West Coast Range to the Crotty smelters, and then on to Pillinger in the Kelly Basin of Macquarie Harbour, from where...

 formation between the Linda Valley

Linda Valley

Linda Valley is a valley in the West Coast Range of Tasmania. It was earlier known as the Vale of Chamouni. It is between Mount Owen and Mount Lyell.Linda Valley is the location of two historical settlements, Linda and Gormanston...

 and Crotty was submerged by Lake Burbury.

Peaks and spurs

Mount Jukes has a number of named features:-

• Jukes Range - is the name to the ridge between Proprietary Peak in the north, and South Jukes Peak
• East Jukes Peak - 731 metres - closest to King River Gorge and the Crotty Dam, and to the north of the Mount Jukes road.
• Proprietary Peak - 1104 metres - north west of main part of Mount Jukes, with the Crown spur the most noticeable feature when viewed from the town of Quuenstown to the north.
• Mount Jukes - 1168 metres
• Central Peak
• West Jukes Peak - 1062 matres
• Pyramid Peak - 1080 metres
• South Jukes Peak - 1014 metres

Other named features that are not given specific heights include:-

• Yellow knob
• Yellow Knob spur
• South Jukes Spur
• Crown Spur
• East Jukes Spur
• Intercolonial Spur
• Cliff Spur
• Newall Spur

Lakes

Two named glacial lakes in the upper part of the eastern side of the mountain are:-

• Upper Lake Jukes
• Lower Lake Jukes

It is by the lakes that a number of small mines were started in the early years of the twentieth century.
West Coast Range

• Mount Huxley
  Mount Huxley (Tasmania)
  Mount Huxley is a mountain in the West Coast Range, Tasmania, named by Charles Gould in 1863 after Professor Thomas Henry Huxley.A smaller of the west coast range mountains, with a large 200 metre outcrop/rock face on its southern side above the King River gorge just west of the Crotty Dam - parts...
  
  
• Mount Jukes
• Mount Darwin

Map Reference

• Tasmania 1: 25 000 series maps
  • Owen 3833 (Edition 2 2001) - for northern part
  • Darwin 3832 - for southern part