Mount Franklin
Mount Franklin is an extinct volcano about 10 km north of Daylesford and 4.6 km south east of Franklinford in Victoria, Australia. A road spirals round the outside slopes covered with pine trees, into a flat 50 acre caldera, and onto the rim which hosts a fire lookout, parking area and picnic ground.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Peterdownunder, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 648 metres
- Description: mountain in Australia
- Also known as: “Mount Franklin (Victoria)”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Daylesford and Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park.
Daylesford
Photo: Mike Hauser, CC BY 2.0.
Daylesford, an hour and a half northwest of Melbourne, has many spas, good food and wine, a lush environment, artists, and holistic therapists.
Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park is a historic national heritage park near Castlemaine in the Goldfields region of Victoria. The park protects of what is some of the largest relics from the Victorian gold rush.
Mount Franklin
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Shire of Hepburn, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-37.264° or 37° 15′ 50″ southLongitude
144.15018° or 144° 9′ 1″ eastElevation
648 metres (2,126 feet)Open location code
4RJ6P5P2+93OpenStreetMap ID
node 348208596OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Mount Franklin” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mount Franklin (bukid sa Awstralya, State of Victoria)”
- Cebuano: “Mount Franklin”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت فرانكلين (اوستراليا)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت فرانكلين”
- German: “Mount Franklin”
- Ladin: “Mount Franklin”
- Swedish: “Mount Franklin (berg i Australien, Victoria)”
- Swedish: “Mount Franklin”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mount Franklin”. Photo: Peterdownunder, CC BY-SA 3.0.