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Mount Mawson

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Mount Mawson

Top of Mawson Run
Location	Mount Mawson, Mount Field
Nearest major city	Hobart
Top elevation	1,320 metres (4,330 ft)
Base elevation	1,250 metres (4,100 ft) AHD ^[1]
Trails	5
Lift system	4 rope tows
Website	mtmawson.info

Mount Mawson Location in Tasmania
Highest point
Elevation	1,318 m (4,324 ft)AHD ^[2]
Prominence	51 m (167 ft)^[2]
Listing	List of highest mountains of Tasmania
Coordinates	42°21′43″S 146°34′28″E / 42.36194°S 146.57444°E / -42.36194; 146.57444^[3]
Geography
Location	Southern Tasmania, Australia
Geology
Age of rock	Jurassic
Mountain type	Dolerite

Mount Mawson is a mountain and club skifield situated within the Mount Field National Park in southern Tasmania, Australia.

The mountain has an elevation of 1,318 metres (4,324 ft) above sea level.^[2] Mount Mawson's summit rises to 1,320 metres (4,330 ft)^{[citation needed]} above sea level slightly lower than the 1,460 metres (4,790 ft) at Ben Lomond ski-field in northern Tasmania.

By road, the mountain is located 89 kilometres (55 mi) north west of Hobart and 232 kilometres (144 mi) from Launceston.

Skiing[edit]

Much of Tasmania is subject to at least occasional winter snows.

The Mount Mawson ski area was established as a club skifield in 1958 and is run by the Southern Tasmanian Ski Association.^[4] It is situated at around 1,250 metres (4,100 ft) above sea level^[1] with four ski tows about a 20-minute walk from the car park. Mawson has three lifts: two intermediate rope tows and a third steep incline rope tow accessing steep terrain. A small amount of club accommodation is available and there are some self-catering huts in the national park.^[5]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "About". Mount Mawson. 2017. Retrieved 31 May 2017.

^ ^a ^b ^c "Mount Mawson, Australia". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 31 May 2017.

^ "Mount Mawson". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.

^ Southern Tasmania Ski Association

^ "Ski and winter". The Sydney Morning Herald. 13 November 2008. Archived from the original on 8 November 2012.

External links[edit]

Wikiski entry Mount Mawson on WIkiski
Mount Mawson website
* Information on all ski lifts to have operated at Mt Mawsonin the Australian Ski Lift Directory

MountainsinTasmania, Australia

Arthur Range

Eastern

Federation (1,224 m or 4,016 ft)

Ben Lomond

Legges Tor (1,572 m or 5,157 ft)
Giblin Peak (1,569 m or 5,148 ft)
Markham Heights (1,542 m or 5,059 ft)
Hamilton Crags (1,540 m or 5,052 ft)
Stacks Bluff (1,527 m or 5,010 ft)
Misery Bluff (1,520 m or 4,987 ft)
Ossian’s Throne (1,498 m or 4,915 ft)
Coalmine Crag (1,498 m or 4,915 ft)
Magnet Crag (1,464 m or 4,803 ft)
Victoria (1,213 m or 3,980 ft)

Du Cane Range

unnamed peak (1,520 m or 4,987 ft)
Geryon North (1,516 m or 4,974 ft)
Massif (1,514 m or 4,967 ft)
Geryon South (1,509 m or 4,951 ft)
Gould (1,485 m or 4,872 ft)
Castle Crag (1,482 m or 4,862 ft)
Thetis (1,482 m or 4,862 ft)
The Acropolis (1,481 m or 4,859 ft)
Achilles (1,363 m or 4,472 ft)

Eldon Range

Eldon Peak (1,440 m or 4,724 ft)
Eldon Bluff

Great Western Tiers

Ironstone (1,443 m or 4,734 ft)

Pelion Range

Ossa (1,614 m or 5,295 ft)¹
Pelion West (1,560 m or 5,118 ft)
Pelion East (1,461 m or 4,793 ft)

Wellington Range

Kunanyi / Wellington (1,269 m or 4,163 ft)

West Coast Range

Murchison (1,275 m or 4,183 ft)
Jukes (1,168 m or 3,832 ft)
Sedgwick (1,147 m or 3,763 ft)
Owen (1,146 m or 3,760 ft)
Sorell (1,144 m or 3,753 ft)
Read (1,124 m or 3,688 ft)
Proprietary Peak (1,103 m or 3,619 ft)
Hamilton (1,103 m or 3,619 ft)
Darwin (1,031 m or 3,383 ft)

Heemskirk

Agnew (848 m or 2,782 ft)
Dundas (1,143 m or 3,750 ft)
Heemskirk (751 m or 2,464 ft)
Zeehan (701 m or 2,300 ft)

Sticht

unnamed peak (1,080 m or 3,543 ft)

Tyndall

Geikie (1,191 m or 3,907 ft)
Tyndall (1,179 m or 3,868 ft)

Not in a defined range

Mount Olympus (1,472 m or 4,829 ft)
Frenchmans Cap (1,446 m or 4,744 ft)
Barrow (1,406 m or 4,613 ft)

¹ Highest summit elevation in Tasmania

Category

v t e Australian skifields
NSW	Cabramurra Charlotte Pass Perisher Blue Cow Guthega Perisher Valley Smiggin Holes Selwyn Snowfields Thredbo
Victoria	Dinner Plain Falls Creek Hotham Alpine Lake Mountain (XC) Mount Baw Baw Mount Buller Mount St Gwinear (XC) Mount Stirling (XC)
Tasmania	Ben Lomond Mount Mawson
ACT	Corin Forest
Former skifields	Kiandra Mount Buffalo Mount Franklin

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