It lies in line behind Mount Lyell in views from high points in Queenstown and from the roads leading out to Strahan and Zeehan.

Bands of the pink and grey coloured conglomerate show strikingly on its south west slopes.

[2] The geology of Mount Sedgwick has remnant Jurassic, Permian and Palaeozoic features.

The lack of a strong magnetic signature suggests it is not a plug that intrudes Permian tillite, which is exposed on the South East flank of the mountain.

[3][4] Mount Sedgwick and its surrounding area was identified in the 1890s by Thomas Bather Moore as being associated with evidence of glaciation in the West Coast Range.