Australian Alps

Australian Alps
View over a meadow with everlasting flowers on Mount Hotham over to Mount Feathertop (Victorian Alps)
Highest peak	Mount Kosciuszko ( 2228  m )
part of	Great dividing range
Coordinates	37 ° 0 ′  S , 148 ° 0 ′  E Coordinates: 37 ° 0 ′  S , 148 ° 0 ′  E
Age of the rock	Ordovician - Devonian , Triassic , Tertiary
particularities	highest mountain range in Australia

The term Australian Alps ( English Australian Alps ) is a series of mountain ranges and - massive of the highest part of the Great Dividing Range to the east and southeast of the Australian states of Victoria and New South Wales . The northern and higher parts of the Australian Alps located in New South Wales are also called the Snowy Mountains , while the southern parts located in Victoria are grouped together under the name Victorian Alps . In the Australian Alps, the highest mountains on the Australian mainland rise up to 2228  m .

The mountains are of particular importance as a recreational area, as well as for generating electricity from hydropower and for the supply of drinking water . There are several national parks in the region. The only ski resorts in Australia are also the only inhabited areas in the Australian Alps.

Significant areas, mountains and places are:

• Mountain ranges and mountains
  • Snowy Mountains (New South Wales)
    • Mount Kosciuszko ( 2228  m )
    • Mount Townsend ( 2209  m )
    • Mount Tate ( 2068  m )
    • Mount Jagungal ( 2061  m )
  • Victorian Alps (Victoria)
    • Mount Bogong ( 1986  m )
    • Mount Feathertop ( 1922  m )
    • Mount Hotham ( 1862  m )
    • Mount Buller ( 1804  m , with the ski area of ​​the same name)
    • Bogong High Plains

• National parks
  • Alpine National Park (Victorian Alps)
  • Kosciuszko National Park (Snowy Mountains)

• Winter sports resorts and ski areas
  • Charlotte Pass (Snowy Mountains)
  • Falls Creek (Victorian Alps)
  • Perisher (Snowy Mountains)
  • Selwyn Snowfields (Snowy Mountains)
  • Thredbo (Snowy Mountains)

Web links

• cards
  • International Map of the World (IMW) 1: 1,000,000. Sheet Melbourne (SJ55). Division of National Mapping, Canberra 1984 (unmodified reprint of 1980 map)
  • Special map of Australia 1: 3,500,000 in 9 sheets, Section 9. Based on original and official sources by A. Petermann. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1875 (Note: The present Australian capital Canberra was only founded in 1913 and is not shown on the map. It is roughly where the city of Queanbeyan is shownon the map, near the northern end of the Australian Alps.)