Strzelecki Ranges, also known as Strzelecki Hills is a low mountain range situated in the Gippsland region of south-eastern Australia between the Latrobe Valley to the north and Bass Strait to the south. It is named after Paul Edmund Strzelecki, a Polish born explorer, who led an expedition through this region in the 1840s. Gippsland is a large rural region in Victoria, Australia. ... The Latrobe Valley of Australia is nestled geographically between the Strezlecki and Great Dividing Ranges. ... Bass Strait is a sea strait separating Australian mainland (Victoria in particular). ... Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki (July 20, 1797 - October 6, 1873) was a Polish nobleman, explorer and geologist. ... 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Temperate rainforest, populated by 90 metre tall Mountain Ash, originally covered the ranges but much of it was logged in the late 19th and early 20th century. Some of what remains has been protected inside the Tarra-Bulga National Park. Binomial name Eucalyptus regnans The Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus regnans) of southern Australia is the tallest of all flowering plants, and perhaps the tallest of all plants, period - although the tallest specimens have all been destroyed by humans. ... Tarra-Bulga is a national park in Victoria (Australia), 158 km east of Melbourne. ...
The spectacular Grand Ridge Road winds through the ranges and provides picturesque views over the Latrobe Valley and to the south towards Wilsons Promontory. The Latrobe Valley of Australia is nestled geographically between the Strezlecki and Great Dividing Ranges. ... Looking south from Mount Oberon on Wilsons Promontory towards the southern tip of Australia Landsat 7 imagery of Wilsons Promontory. ...
Settlers from Melbourne in the 1860s struggled to penetrate the area until the arrival of the Gippsland Railway in the 1870s. The highest peak is Mount Fatigue (581 metres.) Melbourne is the state capital and largest city in the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-largest city in Australia (after Sydney), with a population of approximately 3. ... // Events and trends Technology The First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States is built in the six year period between 1863 and 1869. ... The Gippsland Railway is the general name for rail lines between Melbourne and Gippsland. ... Events and Trends Technology The invention of the telephone (1876) by Alexander Graham Bell. ...
It is a lush counterpoint to the deforested slopes of the StrzeleckiRanges I have driven through to get here, and it is the final remnant of a vast forest that once covered the ranges and defied the eponymous explorer "Count" Paul Strzelecki in 1840.
Strzelecki was not the first European into the region - that honour belonged to Angus McMillan the previous year - but it was his name that lingered over the ranges.
At the eastern end of the StrzeleckiRanges, south of Traralgon, Tarra Bulga provides a glimpse of Gippsland as Strzelecki would have seen it, coated in the cool temperate rainforest that is now confined to four places in Victoria: Tarra Bulga, the Otway Ranges, the Errinundra Plateau and the central highlands between Warburton and Marysville.
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