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Mountain Attractions In Wantirna

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Wantirna is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 24 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Knox local government area. Wantirna recorded a population of 13,818 at the 2016 Census. Its name is derived from the local aboriginal population's meaning for, a gurgling stream. The Knox Private Hospital and Westfield Knox shopping centre are located in Wantirna. The EastLink tollway runs through Wantirna with interchanges at Boronia Road and Burwood Highway. Wantirna was first settled in 1840 when Mrs. Madeline Scott established the Bushy Park cattle run on the banks of the Dandenong Creek. During the 1870s other pi...
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  • 1. Dandenong Ranges National Park Dandenong
    The Dandenong Ranges are a set of low mountain ranges, rising to 633 metres at Mount Dandenong, approximately 35 km east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The ranges consist mostly of rolling hills, steeply weathered valleys and gullies covered in thick temperate rainforest, predominantly of tall Mountain Ash trees and dense ferny undergrowth. After European settlement in the region, the range was used as a major source of timber for Melbourne. The ranges were popular with day-trippers from the 1870s onwards. Much of the Dandenongs were protected by parklands as early as 1882 and by 1987 these parklands were amalgamated to form the Dandenong Ranges National Park, which was subsequently expanded in 1997. The range receives light to moderate snow falls a few times in most years, frequently ...
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