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Looking down the chimney on Mt Ossa towards Pelion East

Highest points by state and territory

List of mountains in Australia by topographic prominence

This is a list of the top 50 mountains in Australia ranked by

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. Most of these peaks are the highest point in their areas.

Australian Capital Territory

The following is a list of mountains and prominent

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in order, from the highest peak to the lowest peak, for those mountains and hills with an elevation above :

New South Wales

Queensland

South Australia

Tasmania

Victoria

Western Australia

* Carnarvon Range * Mount Augustus (1105m) * Mount Beadell *

Darling Range The Darling Scarp, also referred to as the Darling Range or Darling Ranges, is a low escarpment running north–south to the east of the Swan Coastal Plain and Perth, Western Australia. The escarpment extends generally north of Bindoon, to th ...

Mount Dale Mount Dale is a mountain in Western Australia about east of Armadale in the Shire of Beverley. At high, it is one of the highest points in the Darling Scarp. It is best known for its walk track, which forms part of the Bibbulmun Track. Th ...

** Mount Cooke *

Hamersley Range The Hamersley Range is a mountainous region of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The range was named on 12 June 1861 by explorer Francis Thomas Gregory after Edward Hamersley, a prominent promoter of his exploration expedition to the n ...

** Mount Meharry (at 1,249 metres above sea level, the highest peak in Western Australia) ** Mount Bruce (1,221 m; the second highest peak in WA) ** Mount Nameless/Jarndunmunha 1,115 m * Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges, formerly King Leopold Ranges *

Mount Lesueur Mount Lesueur is a near-circular, flat-topped mesa located from Jurien Bay in Western Australia. It rises above the surrounding lateritic plain of Lesueur National Park which has eroded away around it. Mount Lesueur was first sighted and na ...

Porongurup Range Porongurup National Park is a national park in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. It covers , and is southeast of Perth and north of Albany. The park contains the Porongurup Range, which is the relic core of an ancient moun ...

Stirling Range The Stirling Range or Koikyennuruff is a range of mountains and hills in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, south-east of Perth. It is over wide from west to east, stretching from the highway between Mount Barker and Cranb ...

Bluff Knoll Bluff Knoll is the highest peak of the Stirling Range in the Great Southern region of Western Australia (WA). It is above sea level, with a prominence of 650 m (2,130 ft). The local Aboriginal people, the Mineng and Koreng/Goreng s ...

(1,099m) ** Toolbrunup (998m) ** Mount Magog ** Mount Trio ** Mount Hassell ** Talyuberlup Peak *

Peak Charles National Park Peak Charles National Park is a national park in Western Australia, east of Perth and north west of Esperance. The park is named for one of the main features, Peak Charles, which is an ancient granite peak with an elevation of that dominates ...

** Peak Charles ** Peak Eleanora *

West Mount Barren West Mount Barren is part of the Fitzgerald River National Park located between Bremer Bay and Hopetoun on the south coast of Western Australia the coordinates of the summit of West Mount Barren are . West Mount Barren, along with East Mount Ba ...

East Mount Barren East Mount Barren is a quartzite peak of the Barren Range in Fitzgerald River National Park. It was sighted and named by explorer Matthew Flinders on 6 January 1802, together with two other peaks in the range, West Mount Barren and Middle Mount ...

* Mount Wells (983m) * Mount Ord (947m) * Mount Teague * Mount Manypeaks

Northern Territory

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