Rising out of the undulating country of South Gippsland, a broken tangle of hills and razor-backed spurs runs for many kilometres roughly from west to east, gaining altitude as it goes.
These are the Strzelecki Ranges, also known as Strzelecki Hills. They are 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. They are named after Pawel Edmund Strzelecki, a Polish born explorer, who led an expedition through this region in the 1840s.
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.
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 highest peak is Mount Fatigue (581 metres.)
At the western end of the ranges, the land is less broken and is better suited for farming. Here agriculture is successful and many towns and farms thrive.
The eastern end of the ranges are entirely different in character. Seen from a distance they are dark and almost forbidding. The ridges seem to follow no pattern as they twist and turn and finally fall away and merge into the lower lands of central and eastern Gippsland.
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