Australian Mountain Peaks
Cache Name: AMP038 – Mount Jukes
Peak ID: 38
Elevation: 1168m
State: TAS
Location: West Coast Range, Tasmania
Coordinates: S 42 10’12” E 145 34’48”
Cache Size: 500ml plastic container
Mount Jukes is a mountain located on the Jukes Range, a spur off the West Coast Range, in the West Coast region of Tasmania. The range has multiple peaks, and glacial lakes on its upper eastern reaches. Mount Jukes is situated above the town of Crotty and is west of Lake Burbury. It has had mines and small mining camps adjacent to the lakes, and on the northern upper slopes, near where the Mount Jukes road traverses the upper slopes of the King River Gorge. These mines provide resources to nearby areas and give power to the surrounding areas. Mount Huxley is located to the north and Mount Darwin is located to the south.
Mount Jukes was named by Charles Gould in 1862 in honour of Professor Joseph Jukes, an English geologist who gathered evidence to part afforded support for Charles Darwin's theories of coral reefs. Jukes had visited Hobart in 1842-3 on HMS Fly.