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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Gormanston is a town in Tasmania on the slopes of Mount Owen, above the town of Queenstown in Tasmania's West Coast. It lies at the shoulder between Mount Lyell and Mount Owen and is south or 'up the hill' from an equally abandoned community, the remains of the townsite of Linda which is at the northern side of the Linda Valley. It was built as the company town for the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company operations at the Iron Blow open cut copper mine and later also became the terminus of the North Mount Lyell Railway before it closed. It is the only remaining townsite that lies in effect 'in' the West Coast Range. At the peak of its population and importance, Gormanston had a local government authority based in its town, and it was a major settlement of employees of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, especially in those parts of its workings in the North Lyell and open cut areas. It was the 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 have been removed to other locations.

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