Strzelecki Ranges

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Relief of southern Victoria Mount Tassie ( Strzelecki Mountains )

The Strzelecki Mountain is a low mountain land in Gippsland in Victoria, Australia. The mountain is located 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 this area in the 1840s.

Rainforest vegetation of the temperate zone with 90 m high giant eucalyptus trees covered earlier the mountainous country, but by the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century the forest was largely deforested. Some of the remaining wild areas are today in the Tarra Bulga National Park, and Mount Worth State Park.

The Grand Ridge Road runs in the southwest-northeast direction across the ridge and always offers beautiful views of the Latrobe Valley and the Wilsons Promontory in the south.

Settlers of Melbourne fought in the 1860s through this area until the 1870s, the Gippsland Railway was built. The highest point is Mount Tassie with about 740 m.

• Mountains in Australia and Oceania
• Mountains in Victoria