Linda Valley is a

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in the

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. It was earlier known as the Vale of Chamouni. It is located between Mount Owen and Mount Lyell. Linda Valley Tasmania

Human settlement

Linda Valley is the location of two historical settlements, Linda and Gormanston. These settlements were close to the Mount Lyell mines and workings, at the western edge of

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 ...

, and east of the old

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operations. The terminus of the

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 o ...

was at 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 that was proposed to circumnavigate Mount Lyell but was never completed; it started at Linda. The formation created can still be seen in parts around the sides of Mount Lyell.

Fires

The valley suffered from extensive bush fires in the early twentieth century, and as a consequence the forested valley became denuded. Large numbers of tree stumps line the Mount Lyell slopes in the valley a hundred years after the fires.

Glaciation

The valley is the site of extensive evidence of glaciation in the West Coast Range with a particular stage known as the Linda Glacial stage. The valley is also known as part of the landscape affected by the King River Glacier, which also left moraine at Crotty and Henty River. The valley's glacial moraine is the only

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site with plant fossil assemblages in Tasmania and one of only a few in Australia. The valley has been part of recent mineral exploration lease areas - however prospective mineral deposits have not been located to date, possibly due to the glacial moraine.

References

Sources

* * Whitham, Charles. ''Western Tasmania: A Land of Riches and Beauty.'' {{Western Tasmania West Coast Range North Mount Lyell Railway Valleys of Tasmania King River power development scheme

Human settlement

Fires

Glaciation

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