Mount Sorell

Mount Sorell
Mount Sorell Location in Tasmania
Highest point
Elevation	1,144 m (3,753 ft) ^[1]
Prominence	673 m (2,208 ft) ^[1]
Isolation	11.49 km (7.14 mi) ^[1]
Coordinates	42°16′12″S 145°32′24″E / 42.27000°S 145.54000°E / -42.27000; 145.54000 (Mount Sorell)Coordinates: 42°16′12″S 145°32′24″E / 42.27000°S 145.54000°E / -42.27000; 145.54000 (Mount Sorell) ^[2]
Geography
Location	Western Tasmania, Australia
Parent range	West Coast Range
Geology
Age of rock	Jurassic

Mount Sorell is a mountain located in the West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia.

With an elevation of 1,144 metres (3,753 ft) above sea level,^[1] the mountain is the most south westerly of all the peaks within the West Coast Range.^[3]

History

The mountain was named in honour of William Sorell (1775 - 4 June 1848), a soldier who served as the third Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land.^[3]

Alluvial gold was found in adjacent creeks in the 1880s.^[4]

Geology

Its eastern face dominates the Clark River valley, which separates it from Mount Darwin.^[5]

Because of its position, its appearance and dominance over the Macquarie Harbour just north east of Sarah Island, it was an early named mountain, and no doubt one which gave a sense of barrier to convicts with dreams of escape. Some folklore passed from convict times claim leg irons or other items were found by troops looking for escaped convicts on its slopes.

It has no points of access like the nearby mountains, and in general remains relatively untouched compared to the West Coast Range mountains with old mine workings, walking track, and other signs of human activity.

The Cape at the outer part of Hells Gates at the entrance to Macquarie Harbour is known as Cape Sorell, and there is a locality in south eastern Tasmania called Sorell.

References

1 2 3 4 "Mount Sorell, Australia". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
↑ "Mount Sorell (TAS)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
1 2 Baillie, Peter (2010). "The West Coast Range, Tasmania: Mountains and Geological Giants" (PDF). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania (reprint ed.). Hobart, Tasmania: University of Tasmania. 144: 1–13. ISSN 0080-4703. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
↑ "TASMANIA.". Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1907). Sydney, NSW: National Library of Australia. 21 May 1887. p. 25. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
↑ Geology of Tasmania (Map). One inch. Map square 3579, Mount Sorell. Department of Geology, University of Tasmania. 1954. Retrieved 10 June 2015.

Legges Tor (1,572 m or 5,157 ft)
Giblin Peak (1,569 m or 5,148 ft)
Markham Heights (1,542 m or 5,059 ft)
Hamilton Crags (1,540 m or 5,052 ft)
Stacks Bluff (1,527 m or 5,010 ft)
Misery Bluff (1,520 m or 4,987 ft)
Ossian’s Throne (1,498 m or 4,915 ft)
Coalmine Crag (1,498 m or 4,915 ft)
Magnet Crag (1,464 m or 4,803 ft)

Du Cane Range

unnamed peak (1,520 m or 4,987 ft)
Geryon North (1,516 m or 4,974 ft)
Massif (1,514 m or 4,967 ft)
Geryon South (1,509 m or 4,951 ft)
Gould (1,485 m or 4,872 ft)
Castle Crag (1,482 m or 4,862 ft)
Thetis (1,482 m or 4,862 ft)
The Acropolis (1,481 m or 4,859 ft)

Eldon Range

Eldon Peak (1,440 m or 4,724 ft)
Eldon Bluff

Great Western Tiers

Ironstone (1,443 m or 4,734 ft)

Pelion Range

Ossa (1,614 m or 5,295 ft)
Pelion West (1,560 m or 5,118 ft)
Pelion East (1,461 m or 4,793 ft)

Wellington Range

Kunanyi / Wellington (1,269 m or 4,163 ft)

West Coast Range

Murchison (1,275 m or 4,183 ft)
Jukes (1,168 m or 3,832 ft)
Sedgwick (1,147 m or 3,763 ft)
Owen (1,146 m or 3,760 ft)
Sorell (1,144 m or 3,753 ft)
Dundas (1,143 m or 3,750 ft)
Read (1,124 m or 3,688 ft)
Proprietary Peak (1,103 m or 3,619 ft)
Hamilton (1,103 m or 3,619 ft)
Darwin (1,031 m or 3,383 ft)

Tyndall	Geikie (1,191 m or 3,907 ft) Tyndall (1,179 m or 3,868 ft)

Sticht	unnamed peak (1,080 m or 3,543 ft)

Not in a defined range

Frenchmans Cap (1,446 m or 4,744 ft)

Western region of Tasmania, Australia

Cities
and other settlements

Queenstown

Governance

Mountains

West
Coast
Range

Tyndall	Geikie Tyndall

Eldon	Eldon Peak

Engineer	unnamed peak

Raglan	unnamed peak

Sticht	unnamed peak

National parks

Rivers

Lakes

Dams

Power stations

Transport

Railways	Emu Bay Macquarie Heads breakwater Melba Mount Dundas – Zeehan North East Dundas North Mount Lyell Strahan–Zeehan Wee Georgie Wood West Coast Wilderness

Locomotives and rolling stock	TGR G class (1896) TGR K class

Railway stations and former railway stations	Queenstown Regatta Point Zeehan

Landmarks

Natural	Birchs Inlet Cape Sorell Darwin Crater Granville Harbour Hells Gates Iron Blow Kelly Basin Linda Valley Macquarie Harbour Montezuma Falls Nelson Falls Ocean Beach Trial Harbour

Man-made	Cape Sorell Lighthouse Galley Museum Queenstown Oval

People of note

Mining

Books and newspapers

other

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Mount Sorell

History

Geology

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