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Raglan Range

Coordinates: 42°10′S 145°50′E / 42.167°S 145.833°E

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The Raglan Range is located in Western Tasmania, east of the West Coast Range.

It is located on the northern side of the Franklin River, and to the south of the Lyell Highway.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Earlier European explorers burnt this range as early as 1859.^[4]

It is located in the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park.

References

^ Gee, R. D; Tasmania. Department of Mines (1963), Structure and petrology of the Raglan Range, L.G. Shea, Government Printer, retrieved 23 February 2015
^ "Raglan Ranges". The Advocate. Burnie, Tas. 15 May 1929. p. 4. Retrieved 23 February 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Prospectors' Find". The Advocate (DAILY ed.). Burnie, Tas. 5 April 1930. p. 8. Retrieved 23 February 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
^ page 202 – W.A. Tully – as well as the Collingwood valley Binks, C. J (2006), Hills of the west wind : reflections on the Tasmanian landscape, Barrallier Books, ISBN 978-0-9585838-7-9

Mountains in Tasmania, Australia

Eastern	Federation (1,224 m or 4,016 ft)

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)

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

Great Western Tiers

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

Ossa (1,614 m or 5,295 ft)¹
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)

¹ Highest summit elevation in Tasmania

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 Gaiety Theatre Galley Museum Paragon Theatre Queenstown Oval

People of note

Books and
newspapers

Other

42°10′S 145°50′E / 42.167°S 145.833°E / -42.167; 145.833

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