• The North Mount Lyell disaster (also known as the Mount Lyell disaster and North Mount Lyell fire) refers to a fire that broke out on 12 October 1912 at...
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  • North Mount Lyell was the name of a mine, mining company, locality (sometimes as North Lyell) and former railway north of Gormanston on the southern slopes...
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  • was the 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster, also known at the time as the North Lyell fire. During its history, Mount Lyell had exploration leases surrounding...
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  • the Kimberley region Mount Lyell (Canada), on the Alberta–British Columbia boundary 1912 North Mount Lyell disaster Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company...
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    Queenstown, Tasmania (category Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company)
    historical event it has celebrated was the centenary of the 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster in the second festival in October 2012. In the third festival...
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  • Gormanston, Tasmania (category North Mount Lyell Railway)
    nearest community to the 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster and was used as a base by company officials attending to this disaster. Considerable numbers of buildings...
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  • 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster occurred. There was a small operation in the early days of the mining operation that was on the northern side of Mount Lyell...
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    Linda, Tasmania (category North Mount Lyell Railway)
    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...
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    McDonough. The North Lyell Mine, scene of the 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster, was at its northernmost end, on the slopes of Mount Lyell. Very close to...
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  • did have alternative interpretations on events such as the 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster, and there were residents of Queenstown living in the town as...
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  • Richard was commended for his heroic endeavours at the time of the North Mount Lyell disaster. 'News in Brief' Friday, 4 October 1929 The Times (London, England)...
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  • This is a list of disasters in Australia by death toll. The Port Arthur massacre claimed 35 lives in 1996 when Martin Bryant opened fire in the former...
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    Southern Hemisphere with steam turbine propulsion. During the 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster she crossed the strait in 12 hours and 46 minutes at 22 knots...
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  • the Queenstown based Mount Lyell Standard, which ceased in 1902. It reported extensively on the 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster and the subsequent inquiry...
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  • these were linked in their connection with the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company While further north Zeehan and Rosebery are settlements that developed...
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  • entrance Macquarie Harbour and was essential during the 1912 North Mount Lyell disaster. The track gauge of the lines between Burnie was the same all...
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    Melbourne, 1992 "The Kembla Disaster". The Sydney Morning Herald. 16 January 1903. p. 3. Retrieved 22 April 2021. "North Lyell Disaster". The Argus. Melbourne...
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  • non-citizens are excluded). 12 October – Forty-two people die in the North Mount Lyell Disaster on the west coast of Tasmania. 29 January – New South Wales wins...
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  • events and exhibitions which commemorated the centenary of the North Mount Lyell disaster, with enactments that echoed the events of 1912. The West Coast...
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  • Galley Museum (category Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company)
    of photographs and text and materials relating to the 1912 North Mount Lyell Mining disaster is extensive. Considerable parts of the photograph collection...
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  • R. M. Murray (category Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company)
    1945), commonly referred to as R. M. Murray, was general manager of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Co. Ltd, Queenstown, Tasmania for 22 years. Unusually...
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  • "The Barrier" for smelting purposes. Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, which built a line from the Mount Lyell mines to Waratah in 1893. Emu Bay Railway...
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  • Mount Clark Mount Starr King Half Dome Clouds Rest Cathedral Peak Vogelsang Peak Mount Florence Mount Maclure Mount Lyell Koip Peak Mount Gibbs Mount...
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    involved brushing an oily ink onto the paper. An example is Lodgepole Pines, Lyell Fork of the Merced River, Yosemite National Park (originally named Tamarack...
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    Division of Braddon (state) (category North West Tasmania)
    of the five electorates in the Tasmanian House of Assembly, it includes north-west and western Tasmania as well as King Island. Braddon takes its name...
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    John Muir Trail/Pacific Crest Trail then turns south, through the mild Lyell Canyon meadow, and crosses the Cathedral Range again and exits the park...
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    forests on Haida Gwaii, establishing a blockade to prevent the logging of Lyell Island by Western Forest Products. A standoff between protesters, police...
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    Snow Dome – 3,520 m (11,549 ft) Mount Kitchener – 3,505 m (11,499 ft) Mount Lyell – 3,504 m (11,496 ft) Bare Range Blairmore Range Blue Range Bosche Range...
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  • Parattah Railway opened 1885: Formation of the Mt Lyell Prospecting Association 1886: Copper found at Mount Lyell 1886: Government takes over Tasmanian Museum...
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    glacial stairway of the Merced River that runs from Yosemite Valley up to Mount Lyell, gaining some 7,600 ft (2,316 m) of vertical elevation over 21 mi (34 km)...
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