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Mount Strahan is a mountain located on the West Coast Range in the West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia. With an elevation of 855 metres (2,805 ft) above sea level, the mountain is situated directly east of Macquarie Harbour and, like Mount Sorell, dominates the east side of the harbour near Sarah Island.[2]

Mount Strahan
Mount Strahan Location in Tasmania
Highest point
Elevation	855 m (2,805 ft)
Coordinates	42°14′24″S 145°30′36″E[1]
Geography
Location	West Coast, Tasmania, Australia
Parent range	West Coast Range

The mountain was named by Thomas Bather Moore in honour of Sir George Strahan, a Governor of Tasmania.[2]

References

"Mount Strahan (TAS)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 June 2015. Retrieved 18 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)
Victoria (1,213 m or 3,980 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)
Achilles (1,363 m or 4,472 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)
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)

Heemskirk	Agnew (848 m or 2,782 ft) Dundas (1,143 m or 3,750 ft) Heemskirk (751 m or 2,464 ft) Zeehan (701 m or 2,300 ft)
Sticht	unnamed peak (1,080 m or 3,543 ft)
Tyndall	Geikie (1,191 m or 3,907 ft) Tyndall (1,179 m or 3,868 ft)

Not in a defined range

Mount Olympus (1,472 m or 4,829 ft)
Frenchmans Cap (1,446 m or 4,744 ft)
Barrow (1,406 m or 4,613 ft)

Western region of Tasmania, Australia

Cities and
other settlements

Queenstown

Crotty
Darwin
Dundas
Gormanston
Guildford
Linda
Pillinger
Regatta Point
Rosebery
Strahan
Tullah
Waratah
Williamsford
Zeehan

Governance

Braddon (federal)
Braddon (state)
Franklin Land District
Montgomery Land District
Montagu Land District
West Coast Council
Lyell
Murchison
Zeehan

Mountains

West
Coast
Range

Tyndall	Geikie Tyndall
Eldon	Eldon Peak
Engineer	unnamed peak
Raglan	unnamed peak
Sticht	unnamed peak

National parks

Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers
Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area

Rivers

Lakes

Dams

Crotty
Darwin
Gordon

Power stations

Anthony Power Development
Bastyan
Gordon
John Butters
Lake Margaret
Mackintosh
Reece
Tribute

Transport

Anthony Road
Hercules Haulage
Lyell Highway
Murchison Highway
Queenstown Airport
Strahan Airport

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 Gaiety Theatre Galley Museum Paragon Theatre Queenstown Oval

People of note

Convicts on the West Coast
Crotty
Davey
Gould
Joyce
Long
Moore
Pearce
Piguenit
Piners
Rae
Sticht
Whitham

Mining

Comstock Mine
Copper Mines
Henty Gold Mine
Mount Jukes Mine sites
Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company
Mount Lyell Remediation and Research and Demonstration Program
North Mount Lyell
North Mount Lyell Disaster (1912)
Renison Bell
Stichtite
West Coast Tasmania Mines

Books and
newspapers

For the Term of His Natural Life
Gould's Book of Fish
The Peaks of Lyell
Walk to the West
Western Tasmania: A land of Riches and Beauty
Zeehan and Dundas Herald
The West Coast Miner

Other

Darwin glass
The Unconformity
Round Earth Theatre Company
Tasmanian West bioregion
Western Tasmanian Football Association
Western Tasmanian languages

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Der Mount Strahan ist ein Berg im Westen des australischen Bundesstaates Tasmanien. Er liegt im Südwestteil der West Coast Range, westlich des Hauptkamms, und dominiert, wie der Mount Sorell, den Macquarie Harbour über der Sarah-Insel.

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