page_title: Great Dividing Range
section_title: Protected areas
hierarchical_section_title: Great Dividing Range / Features / Protected areas
caption_attribution_description: English: The view from the peak of Mt. Feathertop, 36°54′S 147°08′E﻿ / ﻿36.9°S 147.133°E, facing North East, shows the Fainters and the Niggerheads. Français&#160;: Vue vers le sud est depuis le mont Feathertop, dans le Victoria, en Australie. Le panorama comprend les monts Fainters et Niggerheads. Italiano: Vista panoramica dalla cima del monte Feathertop, Victoria, Australia. DIrezione Nord Est, si vedono i monti Fainters e Niggerheads. Türkçe: Feathertop dağının tepesinin doğudan, ilkbaharın sonlarına doğru görünümü. 中文: 澳大利亚费瑟托普山顶风光
context_page_description: The Great Dividing Range, or the Eastern Highlands, is Australia's most substantial mountain range and the fifth longest land-based range in the world. It stretches more than 3,500 kilometres from Dauan Island in the Torres Strait off the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, running the entire length of the eastern coastline through New South Wales, then into Victoria and turning west, before finally fading into the central plain at the Grampians in western Victoria.
  The width of the range varies from about 160 km to over 300 km. The Greater Blue Mountains Area, Gondwana Rainforests, and Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Areas are located in the range.
context_section_description: Much of the range lies within a succession of national parks and other reserves. Most of the national parks are listed below, and there are almost double that amount of state forests.
  
  
   
  Alpine National Park – VIC
  Bald Rock National Park – NSW
  Barrington Tops National Park – NSW
  Baw Baw National Park – VIC
  Blue Mountains National Park – NSW
  Border Ranges National Park – NSW
  Brindabella National Park – NSW
  Brisbane Ranges National Park – VIC
  Budawang National Park – NSW
  Bunya Mountains National Park – QLD
  Burrowa-Pine Mountain National Park – VIC
  Carnarvon National Park – QLD
  Cathedral Rock National Park – NSW
  Conondale National Park – QLD
  Cunnawarra National Park – NSW
  Daintree National Park – QLD
  Dandenong Ranges National Park – VIC
  Deua National Park – NSW
  Dharug National Park – NSW
   
  Forty Mile Scrub National Park – QLD
  Gibraltar Range National Park – NSW
  Girraween National Park – QLD/NSW
  Grampians National Park – VIC
  Guy Fawkes River National Park – NSW
  Heathcote-Graytown National Park VIC
  Jardine River National Park – QLD
  Kanangra-Boyd National Park – NSW
  Kosciuszko National Park – NSW
  Kulla National Park – QLD
  Kuranda National Park – QLD
  Lake Eildon National Park – VIC
  Lamington National Park – QLD
  Macalister Range National Park – QLD
  Main Range National Park – QLD
  Morton National Park – NSW
  Mount Buffalo National Park – VIC
  Mount Lewis National Park – QLD
  Mowbray National Park – QLD
   
  Mummel Gulf National Park – NSW
  Namadgi National Park – ACT
  Nattai National Park – NSW
  New England National Park – NSW
  Nowendoc National Park – NSW
  Oxley Wild Rivers National Park – NSW
  Snowy River National Park – VIC
  South East Forests National Park – NSW
  Springbrook National Park- QLD
  Sundown National Park – QLD
  Toonumbar National Park – NSW
  Undara Volcanic National Park – QLD
  Wadbilliga National Park – NSW
  Washpool National Park – NSW
  Werrikimbe National Park – NSW
  White Mountains National Park – QLD
  Wollemi National Park – NSW
  Yarra Ranges National Park – VIC
  Yengo National Park – NSW
caption: The view from the peak of Mount Feathertop, facing north-east, showing the Fainters and other mountains
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