Linda Valley is a valley in the West Coast Range of Tasmania . It was earlier known as the Vale of Chamouni . It is located between Mount Owen and Mount Lyell .
7-536: 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 , and east of the old Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company operations. The terminus of the North Mount Lyell Railway was at Gormanston for a short time, the main point of operations for the railway
14-608: A location or community high on the ridge between Mount Owen and Mount Lyell above the Linda Valley to the west known as North Mount Lyell and in Blainey's The Peaks of Lyell , the photograph has the caption "The site of North Lyell town, blasted away to form the modern open cut". When North Mount Lyell was taken over by Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company in 1903, Linda was quickly reduced in significance. Eventually most residents moved to either Gormanston , or Queenstown
21-737: Is the only Late Pliocene 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. Linda, Tasmania Linda is the site of an old ghost town in the Linda Valley in the West Coast Range of Tasmania , Australia . It has also been known as Linda Valley . There had been
28-701: 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. 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
35-541: The mine to smelters at Crotty (now under the waters of Lake Burbury ) then the refined metal taken to a port at Pillinger on the shores of Macquarie Harbour at Kelly Basin . The remains of the town are now adjacent to the Lyell Highway east of Queenstown. In the 2020s recovery of the location was in motion with activity at the hotel site which was brought in 2021 and has been developed as Linda Cafe . This Australian ghost town -related article
42-456: The nearby Mount Lyell towns. Linda Post Office opened on 18 December 1899 and closed in 1966. The Royal Hotel was built during 1901, was destroyed by fire in 1910 and rebuilt. The property was left derelict after 1952 and re-sold in 2020. Linda railway station was the terminus of the Linda aerial ropeway and the North Mount Lyell Railway when it was in operation. Copper ore was taken from
49-462: 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. The valley suffered from extensive bush fires in
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