Mount Dom Dom, Mountain summit in Victoria, Australia.
Mount Dom Dom is a summit reaching 740 meters in Victoria's Great Dividing Range. Its slopes feature thick forest cover with established trails that wind through the eastern side of the mountain.
The mountain gained attention following a 1974 aircraft crash when a Cessna 210 went down during a severe storm. This event shaped its role in regional emergency response activities.
The name Dom Dom is used for both the mountain and the Dom Dom Road and saddle below it, and the summit is reached by leaving that vehicle track and following an ill-defined walking track north. The surrounding forest is mainly evergreen broadleaf, with annual rainfall averaging about 1,391 mm, heaviest in June.
Access is via Dom Dom Road, a vehicle track from Dom Dom saddle; from the road an ill-defined walking track climbs north to the summit. The peak rises 740 m above sea level, about 198 m above the surrounding terrain, roughly 65 km from Melbourne.
In March 2008 a hiker went missing on the mountain on a Sunday; Victoria Police, the SES, the CFA and BSAR volunteers searched on and around Mount Dom Dom for five days. The summit also holds the wreck site of a Cessna 210 that crashed there in stormy weather on 18 June 1974.
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