Explorers

The Victorian High Country was noted by Hume and Hovell in 1825, and explored by Strezlecki, McMillan and Howitt in the 1840’s. Ferdinand Meuller made by far the most detailed explorations in the 1850’s.
Mueller’s third trip, commenced in November 1854, saw him ascend Mt. Wellington, and thereafter travel along the Mitchell and Dargo Rivers and ascend Mt. Hotham. From there he explored the upper Mitta Mitta, Mueller’s Peak and Mt. Kosciusko, thereafter returning via Buchan, the Snowy River and South Gippsland to Melbourne. Thus by 1855 the whole central part of the Australian Alps had been botanically and geographically explored by this “solitary wanderer in the most perilous and lonely regions’ as he described himself. With little equipment he would set out on horseback, accompanied by only two packhorses.