Mount Torbreck, Mountain summit in the Torbreck Range, Victoria, Australia
Mount Torbreck is a 1,516-metre summit in the Torbreck Range, about 100 km northeast of Melbourne in Victoria's Murrindindi region. Its slopes are covered mainly by evergreen broadleaf forest, and the mountain is the highest point in its sparsely populated surroundings.
An aircraft from the Royal Australian Air Force crashed on the mountain in 1940. A memorial built in the 1960s honors the four personnel who died in this accident.
The name Torbreck comes from the Torbreck Range, the mountain chain the summit belongs to. The mountain's most visible cultural trace is the memorial at the 1940 Avro Anson crash site, restored by volunteers in 2013 and reachable again since 23 August 2014 from the Barnewall Plains and Torbreck Roads junction.
The walk to the summit takes about three hours for the round trip on a marked forest trail. Sturdy footwear and weather protection are important since conditions can change quickly on the mountain.
The summit was listed in the Alpine Resorts Act 1983 as a site that could be declared an alpine resort, but no resort was ever built; in 1994 it was recommended to become a natural and scenic features reserve. The mountain rises to 1,516 metres as the highest point of the Torbreck Range.
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