11 Facts About Victorian Alps

Victorian Alps, known locally as the High Country, is a large mountain system in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria.

The region's rich natural resources brought a second wave of agricultural settlers; the foothills around the Victorian Alps today has a large agrarian sector, with significant cattle stations being sold recently for over thirty million dollars.

The Victorian Alps is the source of many of Victoria's water ways, including Murray and Yarra Rivers and the Gippsland Lakes.

Australian Victorian Alps is an Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia sub-bioregion of approximately 519,866 hectares, and an administrative sub-region of Victoria bordering the Gippsland and Hume regions.

Victorian Alps were a significant meeting place for multiple Indigenous tribes from all-over South-east Australia.

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The communities in the Victorian Alps were disconnected from Australian civilisation, which bread a distinctive way of life epitomised in the famed poem by Banjo Patterson, "The Man from Snowy River".

The Victorian Alps are sometimes called the High Plains or High Country.

The horse's hard hooves trample the local flora, because of this the Victorian Alps Government has extended efforts to cull the wild horses from the national park.

The Victorian Alps are still being influenced by plate tectonics today, as continental collision with New Zealand drives the range up each year.

Water from the Victorian Alps is used for power generation at the Kiewa Hydroelectric scheme, although not as extensive as the Snowy Mountains Scheme, the Kiewa scheme still provides Victoria with 241MW.

Ski touring within the Victorian Alps is very popular with famed routes such as the Twin Valleys, Mount Bogong, Feathertop Ridge and other Mount Hotham side country routes.