For example, in Victoria we have Pyramid Hill, the Camel’s Hump, the Sugarloaf, the Paps, Mt. Elephant and the ethereal Mt. Feathertop, not to mention the Twelve Apostles.

Victoria is Australia’s most diverse state and its major agricultural and industrial producer. Located in the southeast, bordered by South Australia and New South Wales, its landscape consists of mountains, rainforests, deserts, snowfields, beaches, vineyards, wheatlands and market gardens.

All 48 regional and rural council areas across the state are covered within the five regions and ten regional cities in Victoria.

The city itself is situated in a region of alpine forests known as the High Country. The city and metropolitan areas of Melbourne also spans along the lower stretches of the Yarra River. Towards eastern Melbourne is the low-lying mountain ranges known as Dandenong Ranges, 35 km east of the city.

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Grampians, mountain range extending southwest from the Great Dividing Range, southwest central Victoria, Australia. Composed mainly of hard sandstone, they are noted for deep gorges, fantastic weathered rock formations, and wildflowers. The highest peak, Mt. William, rises to 3,827 ft (1,166 m).

Victoria, like Queensland, was named after Queen Victoria, who had been on the British throne for 14 years when the colony was established in 1851. The first British settlement in the area later known as Victoria was established in October 1803 under Lieutenant-Governor David Collins at Sullivan Bay on Port Phillip.

Victorian cities Towns and cities suffered from air pollution from factories and water pollution from open sewers. A lack of hygiene (cleanliness) was a big problem, and disease spread rapidly. But cities were also bustling centres of activity. In 1801, only about 33 per cent of the British population lived in cities.

It was incorporated as a Crown settlement in 1837, and named after the then British Prime Minister, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne. In 1851, four years after Queen Victoria declared it a city, Melbourne became the capital of the new colony of Victoria.

Victoria has many notable gardens and was once known as ‘The Garden State’, a slogan which was printed on car number plates. This slogan or nick name related to the greenery in Victoria and the heavy rainfalls which once made it a desirable area for planting.

If you compare the Australian continent to others in the world, it is relatively flat, low-lying and dry. It can be divided into four major landform regions: the Coastal Plains, the Eastern Highlands, the Central Lowlands and the Western Plateau. (Teachers’ note: A plateau is a large area of flat and level land.)

Geography of Victoria. The State is comparable in size to the US state of Utah or the island of Great Britain. It is bound to the northwest by South Australia, directly north by New South Wales, and also shares a maritime border with Tasmania to the south, across the Bass Strait. Most of Victoria’s northern border lies along the Murray River.

Approximately 80% of Victoria’s population lives around the coasts of the Port Phillip Bay and (to a lesser extent) Western Port Bay in the south-central region, chiefly in the state’s two largest cities, Melbourne ( state capital) and Geelong .

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Centred on the main divide in eastern Victoria, the Eastern Uplands separate the streams and rivers draining north to the Murray-Darling Basin from those flowing southwards directly to the sea. It is the largest and most diverse geomorphic region in the State.