Mount Lyell

Mount Lyell can refer to:

  • Mount Lyell (California), the highest point in Yosemite National Park in California, United States.
  • Mount Lyell (Tasmania), a peak in Tasmania, Australia.
  • Mount Lyell (WA), a peak in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
  • Mount Lyell (Canada), a peak on the Alberta–British Columbia boundary.
  • Mount Lyell Disaster, may refer to the 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster
  • Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company in Tasmania existed between 1897 and 1994.
Note - the Mountains named after Charles Lyell were done so in the nineteenth century during the controversy about Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

Famous quotes containing the word mount:

    “As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. The universe is perforated by a million channels for his activity. All things mount and mount.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)