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Exploring Eastern Victoria

Excellent highways give access to the most popular tourist
attractions and towns of Eastern Victoria. The Dandenong
Ranges, Yarra Valley and Phillip Island are within an easy day
trip from Melbourne; the region’s coastline, which includes
Gippsland Lakes, around Lakes Entrance, Wilsons
Promontory and Croajingolong National Park,
is further to the south and east.
The mountains, ski resorts and Finley
inland farm valleys are better Cobram
accessed from the northeast of Barmah
the state. While most of the Yarrawonga Rutherglen
major sights can be Echuca
reached by road, some NORTHEASTERN Ovens CHILTERN
WINERIES
areas of the Gippsland Kyabram BEECHWORTH
forests and the Rochester SHEPPARTON Wangaratta
Victorian Alps must be GLENROWAN Milawa
explored in 4WD vehicles. Waranga BENALLA
Basin Myrtleford
Goulburn Euroa K n Buffalo
Mount
lb
l
King
King
Whitfield Lake National
Park
HIGHWAY Buffalo Buffalo
Mount
WA
W
1695m
HUME
Bendigo
Seymour MANSFIELD
Mt Buller
Broadford Alexandra Mount Buller
1805m Alpine
Yea Eildon National
LAKE Jamieson Park
Cathedral Range EILDON
State Park A u s t r
Yarra Glen Marysville
YARRA LICOLA
VALLEY Healesville
Lilydale
The 19th-century post office in Melbourne Warburton Thomson
Beechworth town centre Ballarat Reservoir
Belgrave DANDENONG RANGES Mount Gwinear
1509m
Gembrook Mount Baw Baw
Dandenong 1565m
Geelong Heyfield
0 km 25 Pakenham
Port Phillip Bay
0 miles 25 Frankston CRANBOURNE Warragul Moe
Traralgon
MORNINGTON
PENINSULA Hastings Morwell
Portsea French
Sorrento Island Korumburra G i p p s l a n d
Key Flinders Cowes Leongatha
Highway PHILLIP Yarram
ISLAND Wonthaggi Inverloch Foster
Major road
Port Albert
Minor road
Track
Scenic route Cape Liptrap
Wilsons
Main railway Promontory
Minor railway
State border South East Point
Summit
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