Mount Wellington is a mountain located to the north-east of Licola in

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, Australia. It is on the border of the

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and

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. The Avon River rises on its south-eastern slopes. The mountain is accessible via a seasonally-open

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track that traverses the ridge line. Features along the track include Millers Hut (originally built in 1916), Taylors Lookout, The Sentinels, and Gable End. To the near west lies Lake Tali Karng. Mount Wellington was named by

Angus McMillan Angus McMillan (14 August 1810 – 18 May 1865) was a Scottish-born explorer, pioneer pastoralist, and perpetrator of several of the Gippsland massacres of Gunai people. Arriving first in New South Wales in 1838, McMillan rose swiftly in Au ...

, who was also the first European to ascend the mountain. In November 1854, Victorian Government Botanist

Ferdinand von Mueller Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (german: Müller; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Vict ...

climbed the mountain on the third of his three expeditions to the

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, collecting many plants, including Alpine Wattle, Dwarf Buttercup and Lilac Berry.

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