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WILSONS PROMONTORY NATIONAL PARK

AT THE SOUTHERNMOST point of mainland Australia lies Victoria’s oldest and one of its most-loved national parks. Wilsons Promontory is a 50,000-hectare coastal wilderness of sandy beaches, granite tors, fern gullies, mountain peaks and native wildlife (think emus, wombats and vividly plumed rosellas), and even harbours a vast inland sand dune system. It is an Aboriginal cultural landscape that remains of major spiritual significance to Victorian Koorie communities today. Visit for the day, it’s three hours’ drive from Melbourne in South Gippsland, or stay awhile: the Prom’s

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