{{Short description|Valley in West Coast Range, Tasmania, Australia}} {{Use Australian English|date=February 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2015}} '''Linda Valley''' is a [[valley]] in the [[West Coast Range (Tasmania)|West Coast Range]] of [[Tasmania]]. It was earlier known as the '''Vale of Chamouni'''. It is located between [[Mount Owen, Tasmania|Mount Owen]] and [[Mount Lyell, Tasmania|Mount Lyell]]. [[File:Linda Valley Tasmania.jpg|thumb|Eastern end of Linda Valley next to lake Burbury]]
==Human settlement== Linda Valley is the location of two historical settlements, [[Linda, Tasmania|Linda]] and [[Gormanston, Tasmania|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 (Tasmania) railway station|Gormanston]] for a short time, the main point of operations for the railway was the yard and railway station at Linda,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84020955 |title=LYELL |newspaper=[[Zeehan and Dundas Herald]] |volume=XXIV |issue=260 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=15 August 1913 |accessdate=4 June 2016 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> known as the Linda Valley station in early records.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article80242992 |title=GORMANSTON NOTES. |newspaper=[[Zeehan and Dundas Herald]] |volume=XVII |issue=96 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=5 February 1906 |accessdate=4 June 2016 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
A feature in the landscape is the formation created for the [[Comstock Tram#Mount Lyell - southern, northern and eastern side|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.
==Fires== The valley suffered from extensive bush fires in 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.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Harvey, J. H. (John Henry) | title=Linda Valley, Mt. Lyell, Tasmania | publication-date=1875 | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/167161768 | accessdate=9 April 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | title=Photograph-Linda Valley from Mt Lyell, Tas. nd | publication-date=1920 | publisher=LINC Tasmania | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/36587212 | accessdate=9 April 2017 }}</ref>
==Glaciation== 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.<ref>Kiernan, Kevin (1983) ''Weathering evidence for an additional glacial stage in Tasmania'' Australian Geographical Studies Volume 21 Issue 2, Pages 197 - 220</ref> 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.<ref>see [[Geology of Tasmania]] in relation to this</ref>
The valley's glacial moraine is the only [[Late Pliocene]] site with plant fossil assemblages in Tasmania and one of only a few in Australia.<ref>{{cite AHD|14287}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mrt.tas.gov.au/mrtdoc/tasxplor/download/01_4558/1399_200104_02_MainReport.pdf |title=PASMINCO EXPLORATION |date=2001 |website=www.mrt.tas.gov.au |format=PDF|access-date=2021-01-10}}</ref>
==See also== * [[Geology of Tasmania]]
==References== {{reflist}}
==Sources== * {{cite book| author=Blainey, Geoffrey| title=The Peaks of Lyell | edition=6th | publisher=St. David's Park Publishing | location=Hobart| year=2000| isbn=0-7246-2265-9}} * [[Charles Whitham|Whitham, Charles]]. ''Western Tasmania: A Land of Riches and Beauty.''
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