Mount Sorell

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| photo_caption = Mount Sorell viewed from the Macquarie Harbour fjord

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| location = Western Tasmania, Australia

| range = West Coast Range

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| age = Jurassic

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

With an elevation of {{convert|1144|m}} above sea level, the mountain is the most south westerly of all the peaks within the West Coast Range.{{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 |accessdate=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 }}

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.

Alluvial gold was found in adjacent creeks in the 1880s.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71678748 |title=TASMANIA. |newspaper=Australian Town and Country Journal |location=Sydney |date=21 May 1887 |accessdate=10 June 2015 |page=25 |via=National Library of Australia}}

Geology

Its eastern face dominates the Clark River valley, which separates it from Mount Darwin.{{cite map |title=Geology of Tasmania |series=One inch. Map square 3579, Mount Sorell | publication-date=1954 | publisher=Department of Geology, University of Tasmania |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/21127575 |accessdate=10 June 2015 }}

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.

Mount Sorell

History

Geology

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