Mount Owen (Tasmania)
Mount Owen is the mountain directly east of the town of Queenstown in Tasmania, Australia.
Like most of the mountains in the West Coast Range - it was named by Charles Gould after Richard Owen as the taller mountains were named after opponents or critics of Charles Darwin, the smaller after his supporters. the north western slopes clearly seen from Gormanston and the Linda Valley the 'Long Spur'.
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