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The entire range is highly prone to bushfires, the most recent of which have been the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires, the 1997 Dandenong Ranges bushfires and small fires during the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009. A number of watercourses originate in the Dandenongs, these include: Cardinia Creek; Clematis Creek; Dandenong Creek; Eumemmerring Creek
Mount Dandenong (Aboriginal Woiwurrung language: Corhanwarrabul [3]) is a mountain that is part of the Dandenong Ranges of the Great Dividing Range, located in the Central District of Victoria, Australia. The mountain has an elevation of 633 metres (2,077 ft) [4] and is located approximately 45 kilometres (28 mi) east of Melbourne.
The Dandenong Ranges National Park is a national park located in the Greater Melbourne region of Victoria, Australia.The 3,540-hectare (8,700-acre) national park is situated from 31 kilometres (19 mi) at its westernmost points at Ferntree Gully and Boronia to 45 kilometres (28 mi) at its easternmost point at Silvan, east of the Melbourne central business district.
The Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden, formerly known as the National Rhododendron Gardens, is a botanical garden in Olinda, Victoria, Australia. The gardens are known for their rhododendrons, azaleas, camellias, cherries and daffodils. The collection includes more than 50,000 plants, some of which are rare or endangered. [2]
Sherbrooke Forest is a wet sclerophyll forest within Dandenong Ranges National Park, 40 km east of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia, close to the suburb of Belgrave. It lies within an altitude of 220–500 m asl and is dominated by the tallest flowering plant in the world: mountain ash ( Eucalyptus regnans ).
Acacia stictophylla, also known as Dandenong Range cinnamon wattle, is a species of Acacia that is endemic to Victoria, Australia. [2] The species was first formally described in the botanical journal Muelleria in 2009. [2] Previous to this it was included in the species Acacia leprosa and was often referred to as the "Dandenong Range variant". [2]
The land of the Dandenong Valley Parklands was reserved by the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works in 1973 as part of a plan to create more public open spaces. Plans for the Parklands were originally announced in 1975, and the first publicly accessible section, Jells Park, was opened in 1976.
The traditional custodians of the land surrounding what is now known as the Dandenong Creek were the indigenous Bunurong people of the Kulin nation who referred to the creek as Narra Narrawong; while others gave the creek the name Dandenong, sometimes spelled as Dand-y-non or Tanjenong by early settlers, believed to mean "high" or "lofty".