[3] With an elevation of 1,168 metres (3,832 ft) above sea level,[1] with multiple peaks, and glacial lakes on its upper eastern reaches, Mount Jukes is situated above the town of Crotty and is west of Lake Burbury.

The mountain was named by Charles Gould in 1862 in honour of Professor Joseph Jukes, an English geologist who gathered evidence to part afforded support for Charles Darwin's theories of coral reefs.

The Mount Jukes Road (22 kilometres (14 mi) in length)[4] was constructed by the Hydro in the 1980s at the time the Crotty Dam was made.

It connects southern Queenstown with Darwin Dam, where the previously utilised North Mount Lyell Railway formation between the Linda Valley and Crotty was submerged by Lake Burbury.

It is by the lakes that a number of small mines were started in the early years of the twentieth century.