Flower and Feather at Mt Buffalo National Park
Flower and Feather at Mt Buffalo National Park

Mount Buffalo, in north-east Victoria, is a tourist resort on a mountainous plateau that stands separately to the west of the Victorian alps. It is 75 km south of Albury-Wodonga and is usually reached by the Ovens Valley, south-east from Wangaratta. The nearest township before the plateau is ascended is Porepunkah.
The first Europeans to see the plateau were Hume and Hovell (1824) who thought that the land form resembled a reclining buffalo when observed from the north-west. They named it Mount Buffalo.
Flower and Feather at Mt Buffalo National Park
Northcote Crevasse and Pulpit Rock, Mount Buffalo, 1960
The Chalet, Mount Buffalo in Winter Time
Buckland Valley, Mount Buffalo, 1953
Gorge View, Mount Buffalo, 1953
Snow Plough on the Road to Buffalo Chalet, 1958
The Horn, highest peak on the Buffalo Plateau, c1960
Wintertime at Mount Buffalo Chalet
The Monolith, Mount Buffalo, 1953
Mount Buffalo National Park map, 1953
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