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Mount Despair

Elevation
1,461 m
#11,486
in the world
#70
in Australia

Mount Despair is a mountain in Australia, rising to 1,461 m, the 70th highest we list in Australia, part of the Great Dividing Range.

Range
#8 in the range
Nearest town
90 km away
Type
Mountain
GeoNames feature code MT

Where it is

Mount Despair

Mount Despair lies in Australia, in Victoria.

Key facts

Elevation
1,461 m (4,793 ft)
Surveyed elevation, GeoNames
Type
Mountain
Region
Victoria
Coordinates
-37.116, 146.675

How it ranks

Among peaks in Australia
#70of 162
LargestSmallest
In the Great Dividing Range
#8of 22
LargestSmallest
Among all listed peaks
#11,486of 14,616
LargestSmallest

Nearest peaks

Nearest peaks, by distance from this summit
PeakElevationDistance
Mount Buggery1,153 m4.2 km
Mount Howitt1,742 m7.0 km
Mount Cobbler1,628 m11 km
Mount Stirling1,747 m16 km
Mount Selwyn1,411 m22 km
Mount Buller1,805 m22 km

Nearest cities

The closest places in our city dataset to Mount Despair.

Nearest cities, by distance from this summit
CityCountryPopulationDistance
WangarattaAustralia29,80890 km
WodongaAustralia38,949112 km
BairnsdaleAustralia17,666114 km
TraralgonAustralia26,907121 km
WarragulAustralia19,856133 km

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Elevation and coordinates from GeoNames; prominence, isolation, range and first-ascent data from Wikidata. GeoNames publishes no date for elevation figures, so none is shown.