Mount Banda Banda, Mountain summit in Willi Willi National Park, New South Wales, Australia

Mount Banda Banda is a summit of the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, 320 kilometres from Sydney in Willi Willi National Park. At 1,258 metres it is the highest mountain in the region, and its summit is notably flat, covered in grasses and Blue Mountains ash. The slopes carry cool temperate rainforest dominated by Antarctic beech, with a 40-metre canopy above soil derived from porphyry.

In the 1960s, a forestry project planted exotic conifer trees on the slopes of Mount Banda Banda alongside the native rainforest. These introduced trees are still present on the mountain and can be seen alongside the original forest cover.

The mountain's name is reflected in the surrounding Willi Willi National Park, and its cool temperate rainforest is dominated by Antarctic beech, with prickly ash, coachwood, sassafras, soft corkwood and yellow carabeen around it. Walking stick palms grow in the understorey, orange berry covers much of the ground, and the canopy reaches about 40 metres.

The mountain is accessible from nearby towns like Kempsey or Port Macquarie, with unsealed roads leading into the park. Visitors should be ready for walking through wet rainforest, so sturdy footwear and rain gear are worth bringing.

The summit holds Antarctic beech trees that are among the finest specimens of their kind anywhere in the world. A rare local mouse species lives in this forest and is found almost nowhere else.