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I didn't even know they existed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Alps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Alps
by dkersten 8y ago
I didn't even know they existed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Alps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Alps
- anitil 8y agoSurprisingly we actually have a fair bit of snow coverage, though the quality is ... variable. Our largest 'mountain' (~2200m) would barely qualify for the name in other countries
- rstuart4133 8y agoThey are quintessentially Australian. Barren, dry, low (Alps is a very generous description), spread out. A few years ago very hot dry and windy conditions created by north westerly desert air precipitated major bush fires ripping through the area, killing a few people. Fire fighting in these area is very hard, so they were essentially unstoppable. They were stopped though - by a snow dump from an Antarctic blizzard coming in from the south.