The Australian Alps, an interim Australian bioregion, is the highest mountain range in Australia. It is located in southeastern Australia, straddling eastern Victoria, southeastern New South Wales, and the Australian Capital Territory. It contain Australia's only peaks exceeding 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) in elevation above sea level, and is the only bioregion on the Australian mainland in which deep snow falls annually. The Alps comprise an area of 1,232,981 hectares (3,046,760 acres).The Australian Alps are part of the Great Dividing Range, the series of mountains, hills, and highlands that runs about 3,000 kilometres (1,900 mi) from northern Queensland, through New South Wales, and into the northern part of Victoria. This chain of highlands divides the drainage of the rivers that flow to the east into the Tasman Sea from those that flow west into the drainage of the Murray–Darling basin (and thence to the Southern Ocean) or into inland waters, such as Lake Eyre, which lie below sea level, or else evaporate rapidly.
The Australian Alps consist of two biogeographic subregions: the Snowy Mountains, including the Brindabella Range, located in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory... Wikipedia ()
