Mount Murchison (Tasmania)
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Mount Murchison is the tallest mountain in the West Coast Range Tasmania
, Australia
.
Like most of the mountains in the West Coast Range - the taller were named after opponents or critics of Charles Darwin
, the smaller after his supporters.
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...
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Like most of the mountains in the West Coast Range - the taller were named after opponents or critics of 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...
, the smaller after his supporters.