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:

    “On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine,... I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the lakes of the Penobscot, either alone or with such company as I might pick up there.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)