The Sticht Range is a

mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arise ...

located in the

West Coast West Coast or west coast may refer to: Geography Australia * Western Australia * West Coast of South Australia * West Coast, Tasmania ** West Coast Range, mountain range in the region Canada * British Columbia Coast China * Huangdao District, ...

region of

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, Australia. The range runs between two tributaries of the

Eldon River The Eldon River, part of the King River catchment, is a perennial river located in the West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia. Course and features The Eldon River rises on the slopes of the Eldon Range below Eldon Bluff, located to the ea ...

and is located within the eastern part of the

West Coast Range The West Coast Range is a mountain range located in the West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia. The range lies to the west and north of the main parts of the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park. The range has had a significant num ...

and has an unnamed

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with an elevation of

above sea level Height above mean sea level is a measure of the vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level taken as a vertical datum. In geodesy, it is formalized as '' orthometric heights''. The ...

. It was named after

Robert Carl Sticht Robert Carl Sticht (8 October 1856 – 30 April 1922) was an American metallurgist and copper mine manager, active in Colorado and Montana, U.S.A. and in Tasmania, Australia. Sticht was the developer of the first successful purely pyritic smelting ...

, the manager of the

Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company was a Tasmanian mining company formed on 29 March 1893, most commonly referred to as ''Mount Lyell''. Mount Lyell was the dominant copper mining company of the West Coast from 1893 to 1994, and was based in ...

. It was affected by the

2016 Tasmanian bushfires The 2016 Tasmanian Bushfires were a large series of bushfires in Tasmania which started in January 2016 throughout the state, and continued into February 2016, with considerable damage to fire sensitive areas in the Central Highlands, West Coast ...

Features and access

The range can be viewed from the

Hydro Tasmania Hydro Tasmania, known for most of its history as the Hydro-Electric Commission (HEC) or The Hydro, is the trading name of the Hydro-Electric Corporation, a Tasmanian Government business enterprise which is the predominant electricity generator i ...

built road (B24) at Lake Plimsoll. It is a

cambrian The Cambrian Period ( ; sometimes symbolized Ꞓ) was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cambrian lasted 53.4 million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran Period 538.8 million years ag ...

formation range. The threatened plant ''

Orites ''Orites'' is a genus of 9 known species, 7 endemic to Australia (4 of which occur in Tasmania) and 2 in South America; 1 in the Chilean Andes and 1 in Bolivia. Species This listing was sourced from the ''Australian Plant Name Index'' and o ...

milliganii'', a member of the family Proteaceae, may be located in the range.

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External links

West Coast Range on Google Maps
* https://web.archive.org/web/20060821115426/http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/wha/wherein/detail.html - context of World Heritage Area {{Western Tasmania , state=autocollapse Mountain ranges of Tasmania West Coast Range 2016 Tasmanian bushfires

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