Old Pelion Hut

Old Pelion Hut is a historic alpine hut in the Central Highlands of Tasmania, Australia. It stands within Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park and is associated with the region's mining and bushwalking history. The building was constructed at approximately 1936 for the Mount Pelion Copper Mining Company, linking it to the former Pelion copper-mining district rather than to a commercial consumer brand. The hut and its immediate surroundings gained heritage recognition in 1980, when the site was placed on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate. The registered area covered the hut and land within a radius of approximately 400 metres. This designation reflected the site's historical and environmental importance in a landscape shaped by mining, remote transport routes, and alpine conditions. By 2019, Old Pelion Hut was included within the heritage listing for the Pelion Copper Mine on the Tasmanian Heritage Register. Its significance therefore rests primarily on its surviving association with the copper-mining operation and the historical development of Tasmania's highland interior. The available reference material does not identify a consumer product portfolio, corporate ownership structure, commercial revenue, or brand-management activity. In encyclopedia terms, Old Pelion Hut is best understood as a heritage site and historic structure, although this dossier retains the requested brand-record format.

Old Pelion Hut is located in the Central Highlands of Tasmania, within Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park. Its documented history is tied to the Mount Pelion Copper Mining Company, which built the hut at around 1936. The structure consequently represents the practical infrastructure of a remote mining district, where accommodation and shelter were necessary for workers and visitors operating in difficult alpine terrain. The hut's historical importance is not limited to its architecture. It forms part of the broader cultural landscape of the Pelion copper-mining area, a region where industrial activity intersected with Tasmania's highland environment. Its survival provides a tangible link to the former mining enterprise and to the movement of people through an area that later became important for conservation and long-distance walking. In 1980, Old Pelion Hut and its surroundings were entered on the Register of the National Estate. The listed area extended for approximately 400 metres around the building. The Register of the National Estate was subsequently discontinued, but the earlier listing established a formal record of the hut's heritage value. The hut was later considered as part of the heritage listing for the Pelion Copper Mine on the Tasmanian Heritage Register. As of 2019, Old Pelion Hut was included within that state heritage listing. This treatment emphasizes the site's relationship to the mine and its wider historical setting rather than presenting the hut as an isolated building. The available sources do not provide a precise construction date beyond approximately 1936, identify an individual architect or founder, or document a detailed sequence of alterations and conservation works. They also do not establish the hut as a conventional brand, company, product line, or commercial service. Its contemporary identity is instead that of a historic alpine hut and heritage place within a protected Tasmanian national-park landscape.

• 2019

  Included in the Pelion Copper Mine heritage listing

  [1]Old Pelion Huten.wikipedia.org

  Old Pelion Hut was included as part of the Pelion Copper Mine entry on the Tasmanian Heritage Register.

• 1980

  National Estate heritage listing

  [1]Old Pelion Huten.wikipedia.org

  The hut and an area extending roughly 400 metres around it were added to the then-existing Register of the National Estate.

• 1936

  Construction for the Mount Pelion Copper Mining Company

  [1]Old Pelion Huten.wikipedia.org

  Old Pelion Hut was built at approximately this time to support the Mount Pelion Copper Mining Company in Tasmania's remote Pelion mining district.

Historic alpine hut and heritage structure associated with Tasmania's Pelion copper-mining history.

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