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Linda, Tasmania
Linda is the site of an old ghost town in the Linda Valley in the West Coast Range of Tasmania, Australia. It has also been known as ''Linda Valley''. North Mount Lyell There had been a location or community high on the ridge between Mount Owen and Mount Lyell above the Linda Valley to the west known as North Mount Lyell and in Blainey's The Peaks of Lyell, the photograph has the caption "The site of North Lyell town, blasted away to form the modern open cut". When North Mount Lyell was taken over by Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company in 1903, Linda was quickly reduced in significance. Eventually most residents moved to either Gormanston, or Queenstown the nearby Mount Lyell towns. Facilities Linda Post Office opened on 18 December 1899 and closed in 1966. The Royal Hotel was built during 1901, was destroyed by fire in 1910 and rebuilt. The property was left derelict after 1952 and re-sold in 2020. Linda railway station Linda railway station was the terminus of the Lind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghost Town
A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it (usually industrial or agricultural) has failed or ended for any reason (e.g. a host ore deposit exhausted by mining). The town may have also declined because of natural or human-caused disasters such as floods, prolonged Drought, droughts, extreme heat or extreme cold, government actions, uncontrolled lawlessness, war, pollution, or nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents, nuclear and radiation-related accidents and incidents. The term can sometimes refer to cities, towns, and neighborhoods that, though still populated, are significantly less so than in past years; for example, those affected by high levels of unemployment and dereliction. Some ghost towns, especially those that preserve period-specific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Mount Lyell Railway
The North Mount Lyell Railway was built to operate between the North Mount Lyell mine in West Coast Tasmania and Pillinger in the Kelly Basin of Macquarie Harbour. History At the start of the Twentieth century it was constructed to take ore from Gormanston east of the West Coast Range to the Crotty smelters. From there it was shipped out at Kelly Basin. The North Mount Lyell Railway had exceptionally easy grades compared to its competitor the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company which ran its Abt rack system railway through very steep grades from Queenstown to Regatta Point. Design challenge The railway route ran across a belt of karst terrain in the area near the current Darwin Dam – and the engineers of the 1890s were possibly the first in Australia to have designed for the possibility of sinkholes when planning the route. Operation The line was opened for passengers 15 December 1900, and was taken over by the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company on 16 Jul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghost Towns In Tasmania
In folklore, a ghost is the soul or Spirit (supernatural entity), spirit of a dead Human, person or non-human animal that is believed by some people to be able to appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely, from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes to realistic, lifelike forms. The deliberate attempt to contact the spirit of a deceased person is known as necromancy, or in Kardecist spiritism, spiritism as a ''séance''. Other terms associated with it are apparition, haunt, haint, phantom, poltergeist, Shade (mythology), shade, specter, spirit, spook, wraith, demon, and ghoul. The belief in the existence of an afterlife, as well as manifestations of the spirits of the dead, is widespread, dating back to animism or ancestor worship in pre-literate cultures. Certain religious practices—funeral rites, exorcisms, and some practices of Spiritualism (beliefs), spiritualism and ritual magic—are specifically designed to re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Coast Tasmania Mines
The mines of the West Coast, Tasmania, West Coast of Tasmania have a rich historical heritage as well as an important mineralogy, mineralogical value in containing or having had found, specimens of rare and unusual minerals. Also, the various mining fields have important roles in the understanding of the mineralization of the Mount Read Volcanics, and the occurrence of economic minerals. List of named mines The list below is a partial collation of the names of mining, mines that have existed, a considerable number are found on or adjacent to the West Coast Range (Tasmania), West Coast Range. Other mines and leases with different names may have existed. ;Notes *The place names after the name of the mine are as found in records, and may not be accurate. *Where possible, subheadings are created for entries such as Mount Lyell, where different workings at the mine were named, and some common usages do not necessarily relate to company or Mines Department records *It is not a lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyell Highway
The Lyell Highway (Route A10) is a highway in Tasmania, running from Hobart to Queenstown. It is the one of two transport routes that passes through the West Coast Range, the other being the B28 Anthony Road. Name The name is derived from Mount Lyell, the mountain peak where copper was found in the late 19th century; the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company was the predominant business in Queenstown for almost 100 years. Hobart to Central Highlands section Starting at Granton it winds along the southern side of the Derwent River in a generally north westerly direction to New Norfolk. This section has in the past been susceptible to flooding. At New Norfolk it crosses the Derwent River and winds its way through hilly terrain to Hamilton. Just prior to Hamilton is the turnoff to Bothwell via a sealed route that passes Arthurs Lake and ultimately goes on to Launceston. Central Highlands section After Hamilton, the small town of Ouse is the only other population ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Basin
Kelly Basin is a bay on the south eastern side of Macquarie Harbour on the West Coast, Tasmania, West Coast of Tasmania. It was named after James Kelly (Australian explorer), James Kelly an early explorer of the Tasmanian coastline. It was the location of the terminus of the North Mount Lyell Railway and the town of Pillinger, Tasmania, Pillinger. In the late 1890s, when John Watt Beattie was showing his photographs of the west coast country to Hobart and Launceston, Tasmania, Launceston audiences, the bay was designated as ''Kelly's Basin''. The North Mount Lyell Railway closed in the 1920s. The route of the former railway line, now known as 'Kelly Basin Road', was the land route to the bay. In the 1990s, following the failure of the Franklin Dam project to proceed, parts of the Kelly Basin and Bird River, Tasmania, Bird River area became part of reserves associated with the western boundary of the new South West World Heritage Wilderness area.(1993) ''Kelly Basin-Bird River a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macquarie Harbour
Macquarie Harbour is a shallow fjord in the West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia. It is approximately , and has an average depth of , with deeper places up to . It is navigable by shallow-draft vessels. The main channel is kept clear by the presence of a rock wall on the outside of the channel's curve. This man-made wall prevents erosion and keeps the channel deep and narrow, rather than allowing the channel to become wide and shallow. A reported Aboriginal name for the harbour is ''Parralaongatek''. The harbour was named in honour of Scottish Major General Lachlan Macquarie, the fifth Colonial Governor of New South Wales. History James Kelly wrote in his narrative ''First Discovery of Port Davey and Macquarie Harbour'' how he sailed from Hobart in a small open five-oared whaleboat to discover Macquarie Harbour on 28 December 1815. However, different accounts of the journey have indicated different methods and dates of the discovery. In the commentary to the '' Historic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pillinger, Tasmania
Pillinger is an abandoned port and townsite in Kelly Basin, on the south eastern side of Macquarie Harbour on the West Coast of Tasmania. It was constructed for James Crotty's North Mount Lyell mining company to ship ore from the North Mount Lyell mine, utilising the North Mount Lyell Railway that took the ore to the smelters at Crotty and on to Pillinger. East Pillinger was a company town, and West Pillinger was the neighbouring government town. East Pillinger had 3 wharves, a sawmill, brickworks and ore crusher. West Pillinger had stores, hotels and a police station. ''Kelly's Basin'' Post Office opened on 15 July 1898, was renamed ''Pillinger'' in 1899 and closed in 1924. Pillinger was the name of an old Tasmanian family, some of whom were politicians. When the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company took over the North Mount Lyell operations, most of the town and port facilities were either removed and utilised elsewhere, or left to rot. As a result, a number of ruins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Burbury
Lake Burbury is a man-made water reservoir created by the Crotty Dam inundating the upper King River valley that lies east of the West Coast Range. Discharge from the reservoir feeds the John Butters Hydroelectric Power Station, owned and operated by Hydro Tasmania. The reservoir was named in honour of Stanley Burbury, a former Governor of Tasmania. Water source The lake is fed mainly by rivers from the north, including the upper King River, and the Eldon River. Valleys that open to the area include the Linda Valley. It also has a natural lake just north of its northern shore known as Lake Beatrice which is at the eastern end of Mount Sedgwick. It has a surface area of . Fishing It is popular as a fishing lake, but is susceptible to extreme weather. Its feeder rivers are the upper King, Nelson, Princess, and Eldon Rivers. There are design features in the Crotty Dam to lower the surface level rapidly in the event of severe floodwaters. The lake has the "Bradshaw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crotty, Tasmania
Crotty is the site of a former Government gazette, gazetted township, town in Western Tasmania, Australia. The town was on the southern bank of the King River, Tasmania, King River, on the eastern lower slopes of Mount Jukes, Tasmania, Mount Jukes, below the West Coast Range (Tasmania), West Coast Range. The locality was formerly named ''King River'' Townsite The town reserve was gazetted on 5 June 1900. The town survey was completed in November 1900. By 1902 there had been development of over 150 dwellings, and 700 people living in the town. The last residents to move away left in 1928. In photographs found in Geoffrey Blainey's The Peaks of Lyell, the foreground shows a bridge, the Baxter River bridge. This was a crucial connection for people travelling between the railway stopping places. Smelters failure At the turn of the twentieth century, the township had had a smelter and railway connection with the North Mount Lyell mine. The North Mount Lyell smelters failed, de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Examiner (Tasmania)
''The Examiner'' is the daily newspaper of the city of Launceston and north-eastern Tasmania, Australia. Overview ''The Examiner'' was first published on 12 March 1842, founded by James Aikenhead. The Reverend John West was also instrumental in establishing the newspaper and was the first editorial writer. Initially, ''The Examiner'' was published weekly on Saturdays. Six months later, it began publishing on Wednesdays as well. In 1853, the paper changed to tri-weekly editions, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and first began daily publication on 10 April 1866. That frequency lasted until 16 February the following year. Tri-weekly publication then resumed and continued until 21 December 1877, after which daily publication returned. Associated publications ''The Weekly Courier'' was published in Launceston by the company from 1901 to 1935. Another weekly paper (evening) ''The Saturday Evening Express'' was published between 1924 and 1984 when it transformed into '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Valley
Linda Valley is a valley in the West Coast Range (Tasmania), West Coast Range of Tasmania. It was earlier known as the Vale of Chamouni. It is located between Mount Owen, Tasmania, Mount Owen and Mount Lyell, Tasmania, Mount Lyell. Human settlement Linda Valley is the location of two historical settlements, Linda, Tasmania, Linda and Gormanston, Tasmania, Gormanston. These settlements were close to the Mount Lyell mines and workings, at the western edge of Lake Burbury, and east of the old Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company operations. The terminus of the North Mount Lyell Railway was at Gormanston (Tasmania) railway station, Gormanston for a short time, the main point of operations for the railway was the yard and railway station at Linda, known as the Linda Valley station in early records. A feature in the landscape is the formation created for the Comstock Tram#Mount Lyell - southern, northern and eastern side, Comstock Tram that was proposed to circumnavigate Mount Lyel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
