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Coordinates:41°51′6.66″S145°10′19.96″E / 41.8518500°S 145.1722111°E /-41.8518500; 145.1722111

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Mountain in Tasmania, Australia

Mount Heemskirk
Mount Heemskirk Location inTasmania
Highest point
Elevation	751 m (2,464 ft)^[1]
Prominence	171 m (561 ft)^[1]
Isolation	4.41 km (2.74 mi)^[1]
Coordinates	41°51′6.66″S145°10′19.96″E / 41.8518500°S 145.1722111°E /-41.8518500; 145.1722111
Naming
Native name	Roeinrim, Traoota munattaPeerapper (Northwestern Tasmanian)
Geography
Location	West Coast ofTasmania,Australia
Parent range	Heemskirk Range
Geology
Rock age	Jurassic
Mountain type	Dolerite

Mount Heemskirk is a mountain inWestern Tasmania, west of theWest Coast Range. It has an elevation of 751 metres (2,464 ft) above sea level.^[2] The closest town isZeehan, about 14 kilometres (9 mi) away.^[2]

History

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The indigenousPeerapper name for the mountain is recorded asRoeinrim orTraoota munatta.^[3]

European naming

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On 24 November 1642,Dutch explorerAbel Tasman became the first European explorer to sight and document the Heemskirk andWest Coast Ranges. Tasman sailed his ships close to the coastal area which today encompasses theSouthwest Conservation Area, south ofMacquarie Harbour, but was unable to send a landing party ashore due to poor weather and did not make contact with anySouth West Tasmanian groups. In their circumnavigation of Tasmania between 1798 and 1799,George Bass andMatthew Flinders named the Heemskirk Ranges mountains Mount Heemskirk andMount Zeehan after Tasman's ships, the warshipHeemskerck (itself named afterJacob van Heemskerck, whose surname means "fromHeemskerk") and the 200-tonne (200-long-ton; 220-short-ton)fluytZeehaen (Old Dutch for "Sea Rooster") in honour of Tasman's voyage of exploration.^[4]^[5] Although Dutch in origin, Bass and Flinder'sAnglicised naming of Mount Heemskirk and Mount Zeehan created some of the oldest British place names in Tasmania.^{[note 1]}

Mining

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The mountain and its surrounding high ground was also known as the Heemskirk mining area in the 1890s and the first decade of the 1900s.^[7]^[8]^[9]

Tourism

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After the success ofmountain biking in Derby, severalmountain bike trails opened on Mount Heemskirk in 2020.^[10]^[11]

Notes

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^Only a fewDutch place names in Tasmania originate from Tasman's 1642 voyage. Although some place names originate fromBruni d'Entrecasteaux's French expedition in 1792,^[6] most place names were not assigned inVan Diemen's Land until after the settlement ofHobart Town atRisdon Cove in 1803. It was not until after the 1815 discovery ofMacquarie Harbour by explorer and marinerJames Kelly that many place names on the West Coast were assigned.

References

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^^a ^b ^c"Mount Heemskirk, Tasmania".Peakbagger.com. Retrieved4 June 2022.
^^a ^b"Frequently asked questions about Mount Heemskirk in Tasmania - Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia".
^Milligan, Joseph (1858)."On the dialects and languages of the Aboriginal Tribes of Tasmania, and on their manners and customs"(PDF).Papers of the Royal Society of Tasmania: 270.
^F. Adama van Scheltema & Anton Mensing, 1898."Tasman's ships Zeehaen and Heemskerck".State Library of South Australia. Retrieved2 June 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^"Ship model Dutch fluyt ZEEHAEN of 1639". modelships.de. Retrieved2 June 2022.
^"French came, sowed and left Tasmania in 1792".Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 20 February 2003. Retrieved4 June 2022.
^Waterhouse, L. Lawry (1916)The South Heemskirk Tin Field Hobart. Dept. of Mines, Geological Survey bulletin (Geological Survey of Tasmania); no. 21.
^Waller, George A (1902),Report on the tin ore deposits of Mount Heemskirk, John Vail. Government Printer, retrieved4 June 2022
^Howard, Patrick; Howard, Patrick (2009),Farewell Heemskirk goodbye Dundas : a history of the Heemskirk and Dundas mining fields, Mount Heemskirk Books,ISBN 978-0-646-52414-6
^Powell, Sandy (13 November 2020)."West Coast's Heemskirk Range and Mount Owen mountain bike trail networks enter next phase".The Advocate. Retrieved4 June 2022.
^Powell, Sandy (11 May 2022)."Next Level Mountain bike building trails into the Heemskirk Range".The Advocate. Retrieved4 June 2022.

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Pelion Range

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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