Strzelecki Mountains
| Strzelecki Mountains | |
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 Relief of southern Victoria with Mount Tassie (Strzelecki Mountains) |
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| Highest peak | Mount Tassie ( 740 m ) |
| location | State of Victoria , Australia |
| Coordinates | 38 ° 24 ′ S , 146 ° 34 ′ E |
The Strzelecki Mountains are a low mountain range in Gippsland in the Australian state of Victoria . The mountain range is south of the Latrobe Valley and north of the Bass Strait . It was named after the Polish explorer Paul Edmund de Strzelecki , who led an expedition to the area in the 1840s.
Rainforest of the temperate vegetation zone with 90 m high giant eucalyptus trees used to cover the mountainous country, but at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century most of the forest was cleared. Some of the still natural areas are now in Tarra Bulga National Park and Mount Worth State Park .
The Grand Ridge Road runs in a south-west-north-east direction over the mountain ridge and offers beautiful views of the Latrobe Valley and the Wilsons Promontory in the south.
Melbourne settlers fought their way through the area in the 1860s until the Gippsland Railway was built in the 1870s . The highest point is Mount Tassie with approx. 740 m .