Mount Cobbler

{{Short description|Mountain in Victoria, Australia}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}

{{Use Australian English|date=September 2014}}

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| photo_caption = Mount Cobbler viewed from Mount Stirling

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| elevation = {{convert| 1628|m|ft|0}} {{AHD}}

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| range = Great Dividing Range

| location = Victoria, Australia

| map = Australia Victoria Rural City of Wangaratta

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Mount Cobbler is a mountain located in the Alpine National Park to the east of Mansfield in north-eastern Victoria, Australia.{{cite web|title=Place Names Search: Mount Cobbler|publisher=Geoscience Australia|url=http://www.ga.gov.au/place-name/PlaceDetails.jsp?fctext=MT&submit1=VIC13141|accessdate=21 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714210255/http://www.ga.gov.au/place-name/PlaceDetails.jsp?fctext=MT&submit1=VIC13141|archive-date=14 July 2014|url-status=dead}} Its summit rises to {{convert|1628|m}} above sea level.{{cite web|title=Valleys and Bluffs – car tours and walks around Wabonga Plateau, Mt Cobbler and Powers Lookout|work=Alpine National Park|url=http://parkweb.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/313171/Park-note-Alpine-NP-Wabonga-Plateau,-Mount-Cobbler-and-Powers-Lookout.pdf|accessdate=26 January 2011}} The peak and surrounding Cobbler land system are composed of sedimentary rocks (conglomerate, red sandstone, siltstone and shale), dating to the Lower Carboniferous period, some 359 to 318 million years ago.{{cite web|author=Rowe, R.K.|title=Cobbler land system|work=A study of the land in the catchments of the upper Ovens and King Rivers|publisher=Soil Conservation Authority|url=http://vro.dpi.vic.gov.au/dpi/vro/neregn.nsf/pages/ne_landform_systems_ovens_king_ls/$FILE/cobbler.pdf|accessdate=22 January 2012}}

Nearby Lake Cobbler, which has a camping area, is accessible by a four-wheel drive track. From there is a walking track to the summit, and another to Dandongadale Falls, which drops {{convert|255|m}} from the plateau and is the highest waterfall in Victoria.{{cite web|title=Circuit Road – Mt. Stirling|work=Forests Notes|publisher= DSE – Mansfield|url=http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/101546/FS0025-Circuit-Road-Mt.Stirling.pdf|accessdate=23 January 2011}} The {{convert|5|km|0|abbr=off|adj=on}} walk to the summit is moderate to steep. Surrounding peaks include Mount Typo to the north-east, Mount Koonika and Mount Speculation to the south-east, and Mount Stirling to the south-west.

Tree species occurring on the surrounding plateau include mountain gum (Eucalyptus dalrympleana), snow gum (E. pauciflora) and broad-leaved peppermint (E. dives). Heathland, shrubland and patches of herbfield are found on the rocky escarpments, with species including alpine shaggy-pea (Podolobium alpestre) and mountain beardheath (Acrothamnus hookeri).

Annual rainfall ranges between {{convert|1250|-|1500|mm}}, with snowfalls regularly experienced in winter.