Historical Features and Recent Sites
Tramways and Railways
- Comstock Tram around the slopes of Mount Lyell - not to be confused with a tramway with same name out of Zeehan.
- Lake Margaret Tram at western side of Mount Sedgwick
- North Mount Lyell Railway Linda Valley, along King River Valley,
through the Crotty and Darwin townsites to Pillinger and Kelly Basin.
Townsites
- Crotty on the eastern slopes of Mount Jukes
- Darwin on the eastern slopes of Mount Darwin
- Gormanston on the northern slopes of Mount Owen
- Lake Margaret precinct
- Linda in the Linda Valley between Mounts Owen and Lyell
- Tullah amidst Lake Rosebery
- Rosebery
- Williamsford
Mine sites
- Henty Gold Mine
- Mount Jukes Mine sites on the upper slopes -including 'Lake Jukes Mine'
Hydro sites
- Anthony Power Station
- Bastyan Power Station
- Crotty Dam
- Darwin Dam
- John Butters Power Station
- Lake Margaret Power Station
- Franklin River proposed power development - cancelled in the 1980s
- Gordon River proposed power development - cancelled in the 1980s
Main Roads
- Lyell Highway in the Linda Valley between Mounts Owen and Lyell
- The Henty River Rd From Henty Glacial Moraine to the Lake Murchison Dam (Anthony Power Station) and Tullah
- Walking Tracks
- Numerous historic walking tracks blazed in the nineteenth century, and the twentieth century exist throughout the Range - some survive, some are overgrown.
- C. Binks Explorers of Western Tasmania, has an Appendix 'The exploration tracks 1880-1910' which is a thorough examination of the record.
- The most famous of the track makers was Thomas Bather Moore. He named many features including Mount Strahan, the Thureau Hills and the Tofft River.
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