page_title: Tower Hill Wildlife Reserve
section_title: Gallery
hierarchical_section_title: Tower Hill Wildlife Reserve / Gallery
caption_attribution_description: English: Painting of 'Tower Hill' crater and lake. An inactive volcano on the south-West coast of Victoria, Australia. Painted by Eugene von Guérard between Wednesday 15 August, 1855 and Friday 5 October, 1855 (52 days). The work shows, in detail, the volcano crater lake with inset scoria cones, surrounded by native vegetation.
context_page_description: Tower Hill Wildlife Reserve, formerly Tower Hill State Game Reserve, is a protected area located in the Australian state of Victoria, approximately 275 kilometres west of Melbourne, and 15 kilometres north-west of Warrnambool. It encompasses the extinct Tower Hill volcano and wetland and is 614 hectares in area.
  Established in 1892 as a national park, the land remained degraded until 1961, when it was declared a State Game Reserve and an extensive revegetation program was begun. It is now full of mature native vegetation and reintroduced native species, such as koalas, wallabies and possums. The Worn Gundidj Aboriginal Cooperative manages the park in partnership with Parks Victoria.
caption: Eugene von Guerard's Tower Hill, 1855.
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