:Mount Jukes (Tasmania)

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| photo_caption = Aerial photograph of lower slopes of Mount Huxley (to the left), King River gorge in the left lower, Crotty Dam and Lake Burbury (to the rear), northern slopes (that is Proprietary Peak) of Mount Jukes on the right, Mount Jukes Road in right foreground, and to the right rear the different coloured upper part of East Jukes Peak.

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| location = West Coast, Tasmania, Australia

| range = Jukes Range, West Coast Range

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| age = Jurassic

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Mount Jukes is a mountain located on the Jukes Range, a spur off the West Coast Range, in the West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia.{{cite journal |url=http://eprints.utas.edu.au/15988/1/baillie-west-coast-range-2010.pdf |pages=1–13 |issn=0080-4703 |author=Baillie, Peter |title=The West Coast Range, Tasmania: Mountains and Geological Giants |journal=Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania |volume=144 |date=2010 |publisher=University of Tasmania |location=Hobart, Tasmania |edition=reprint |access-date=18 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150616083904/http://eprints.utas.edu.au/15988/1/baillie-west-coast-range-2010.pdf |archive-date=16 June 2015 |url-status=dead }}

With an elevation of {{convert|1168|m}} above sea level, with multiple peaks, and glacial lakes on its upper eastern reaches, Mount Jukes is situated above the town of Crotty and is west of Lake Burbury.

The mountain was named by Charles Gould in 1862 in honour of Professor Joseph Jukes, an English geologist who gathered evidence to part afforded support for Charles Darwin's theories of coral reefs. Jukes had visited Hobart in 1842-3 on {{HMS|Fly|1831|6}}.

Mines

It has had mines and small mining camps adjacent to the lakes, and on the northern upper slopes, near where the Mount Jukes road traverses the upper slopes of the King River Gorge. These mines provide resources to nearby areas and give power to the surrounding areas.

File:Mount_Jukes_and_burbury.JPG

Access and features

The Mount Jukes Road ({{convert|22|km}} in length)HEC (no date) King River Power Development p.12 Construction Highlights was constructed by the Hydro in the 1980s at the time the Crotty Dam was made. It connects southern Queenstown with Darwin Dam, where the previously utilised North Mount Lyell Railway formation between the Linda Valley and Crotty was submerged by Lake Burbury.

Two named glacial lakes in the upper part of the eastern side of the mountain are the Upper Lake Jukes and the Lower Lake Jukes. It is by the lakes that a number of small mines were started in the early years of the twentieth century.

Mount Huxley is located to the north and Mount Darwin is located to the south.

=Peaks and spurs=

Mount Jukes has a number of named features:{{cite map |publisher=Tasmap |scale=1:100,000 |title=Franklin |sheet=8013 |edition=6 |date=1997}}{{cite map |publisher=Tasmap |scale=1:25,000 |title=Darwin |sheet=3832 |edition=2 |date=1999 }}{{cite map |publisher=Tasmap |scale=1:25,000 |title=Owen |sheet=3833 |edition=2 |date=2001 }}

Jukes Range{{Gazetteer of Australia |name=Jukes Range (TAS) |feature=TAS02902 |accessdate=17 June 2015 }}{{spaced endash}}the ridge between Proprietary Peak in the north, and South Jukes Peak
Mount Jukes{{spaced endash}}{{convert|1168|m}}
Proprietary Peak{{Gazetteer of Australia |name=Proprietary Peak (TAS) |feature=TAS02891 |accessdate=17 June 2015 }}{{spaced endash}}{{convert|1104|m}}, north west of main part of Mount Jukes, with the Crown Spur the most noticeable feature when viewed from the town of Queenstown to the north.
Pyramid Peak{{Gazetteer of Australia |name=Pyramid Peak (TAS) |feature=TAS02818 |accessdate=17 June 2015 }}{{spaced endash}}{{convert|1080|m}}
West Jukes Peak{{Gazetteer of Australia |name=West Jukes Peak (TAS) |feature=TAS02900 |accessdate=17 June 2015 }}{{spaced endash}}{{convert|1062|m}}
South Jukes Peak{{Gazetteer of Australia |name=South Jukes Peak (TAS) |feature=TAS02897 |accessdate=17 June 2015 }}{{spaced endash}}{{convert|1014|m}}
East Jukes Peak{{Gazetteer of Australia |name=East Jukes Peak (TAS) |feature=TAS02881 |accessdate=17 June 2015 }}{{spaced endash}}{{convert|731|m}}, closest to King River Gorge and the Crotty Dam, and to the north of the Mount Jukes Road.
Central Peak{{Gazetteer of Australia |name=Central Peak (TAS) |feature=TAS02879 |accessdate=17 June 2015 }}

Some other named features include Yellow Knob, Yellow Knob Spur, South Jukes Spur, Crown Spur, East Jukes Spur, Intercolonial Spur, Cliff Spur, and Newall Spur.

File:Mount Jukes from West.jpg

:Mount Jukes (Tasmania)

Mines

Access and features

=Peaks and spurs=

See also

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Further reading