Mount Terrible (Victoria)

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

{{other uses|Mount Terrible (disambiguation){{!}}Mount Terrible}}

{{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{Infobox mountain

| name = Mount Terrible
(Warrambat)

| photo = Mount Terrible, Victoria, 2007 (3).JPG

| photo_caption = The sign at the summit

| photo_size = 250px

| elevation = {{convert|1325|m|ft|0}} {{AHD}}

| elevation_ref ={{cite web|title=Mount Terrible, Victoria|work=peakbagger|url=http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=34293|accessdate=20 January 2012}}

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| range = Great Dividing Range

| location = Victoria, Australia

| map = Australia Victoria Shire of Mansfield

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| map_size = 250

| label_position = right

| coordinates = {{coord|37|23|44|S|146|8|25|E|type:mountain_region:AU-VIC_scale:50000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

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Mount Terrible (Taungurung: Warrambat){{cite book |last=Clark |first=Ian D. |title=Dictionary of Aboriginal placenames of Melbourne and Central Victoria |date=2002 |publisher=Victorian Aboriginal Corp. for Languages |location=Melbourne |isbn=0957936052 |page=87}} is a mountain within the Great Dividing Range, located to the south-west of Kevington in Victoria, Australia.{{cite web|title=Place Names Search: Mount Terrible|publisher=Geoscience Australia|url=http://www.ga.gov.au/place-name/PlaceDetails.jsp?fctext=HILL&fctext=HILL&fctext=MT&fctext=MT&fctext=STRM&fctext=BLDG&fctext=MT&fctext=MT&submit1=VIC27330|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121127180405/http://www.ga.gov.au/place-name/PlaceDetails.jsp?fctext=HILL&fctext=HILL&fctext=MT&fctext=MT&fctext=STRM&fctext=BLDG&fctext=MT&fctext=MT&submit1=VIC27330|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 November 2012|accessdate=20 January 2012}}{{cite map |publisher=Spatial Vision |title=Mansfield - Baw Baw Four-Wheel-Drive Map | edition=1 |year= |scale=1:100,000 }} The mountain is located within the {{convert|100|ha}} Mount Terrible Natural Features and Scenic Reserve.{{cite web|title=7. Jamieson Landscape Zone|work=Biodiversity Action Planning – Landscape plans for the Goulburn Broken CMA − South East Goulburn Broken |date=1 August 2003|url=http://vro.dpi.vic.gov.au/dpi/vro/vrosite.nsf/pages/bap_landscape_jamieson_pdf/$FILE/jamieson.pdf|accessdate=20 January 2011}}

Location and features

Its peak is {{convert|1325|m}} {{AHD}} and affords excellent views.

A fire lookout tower was installed in 1962 to replace the Jamieson Lookout. The hut next to the lookout tower burnt down during the night of 8–9 December 2012. Its reconstruction was approved in 2016.{{cite web|title=Mt. Terrible|work=Fire Lookouts Downunder|url=http://www.firelookoutsdownunder.com/Victoria/mtterrible.html|accessdate=20 January 2012}}

It is a steel structure measuring {{convert|22|m}} high and has a cabin on top. The tower is utilised for communications by Telstra, Ambulance Victoria, Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victorian State Emergency Service, LSE Technology and the Upper Goulburn Repeater Association (UHF CB).{{cite web|title=Comms Site MT TERRIBLE|publisher=Australian Communications and Media Authority|

url=http://web.acma.gov.au/pls/radcom/site_search.site_lookup?pSITE_ID=41612|accessdate=20 January 2012}}{{cite web|title=Upper Goulburn Repeater Association Inc. general charter|publisher=Upper Goulburn Community & Repeater Association Inc.|url=http://www.ugra.asn.au/|accessdate=20 January 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20080724010904/http://www.ugra.asn.au/|archive-date=24 July 2008|url-status=dead}}

Access to the summit is via a 4 wheel drive track. The track is rocky, and may be covered by snow in the winter.{{cite web|title=Lake Eildon, VIC |work=The Great Outdoors|url=http://greatoutdoors.i7.com.au/displayb041.html |archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20040704140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/38788/20040705-0000/greatoutdoors.i7.com.au/displayb041.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 July 2004 |accessdate=20 January 2012}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}[https://www.dangerousroads.org/australia-and-oceania/australia/3972-mount-terrible.html Mount Terrible], Dangerousroads.org (accessed on 3 October 2019)

See also

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References

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