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Mountain in Victoria, Australia

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Mount William (Mount Duwil)
Looking east from Mount William, towards Ararat
Highest point
Elevation	1,167 metres (3,829 ft) AHD
Coordinates	37°17′34″S 142°36′3″E / 37.29278°S 142.60083°E / -37.29278; 142.60083
Geography
Mt WilliamLocation in Victoria
Location	Victoria, Australia
Parent range	Grampians
Topo map	Geoscience Australia Mount William
Climbing
First ascent	Thomas Mitchell (European explorer)

Mount William (also Mount Duwil) is a mountain of the Grampians Mountain Range, located within the Grampians National Park, in the Australian state of Victoria. The mountain is situated approximately 250 kilometres (160 mi) west-northwest of Melbourne on the eastern edge of the national park, approximately 22 kilometres (14 mi) drive south from Halls Gap.

Features and location

Mount William is the highest point within the Grampians National Park. Sir Thomas Mitchell reached the summit with a group of explorers in 1836. The first settler in the area was Horatio Wills, who established a sheep run at Mount William in 1840, and named nearby Mount Ararat, after which the town is named. His son, cricketer and Australian rules football pioneer Tom Wills, grew up as a lone white child among the Djab wurrung Aboriginal tribes of Mount William.

Three transmission towers are located at the summit of Mount William including an amateur radio repeater. A sealed service road continues to the summit, but is not accessible by vehicle to the general public.

Visitors to the mountain can drive to a carpark located approximately 920 metres (3,020 ft) up the mountain, before proceeding on foot for 1.8 kilometres (1.1 mi) to the summit. It will take a person of moderate fitness approximately 45 mins to walk. No permit is required to climb the mountain.

Gallery

Western vantage from Mount William
Western vantage from Mount William
Mount William depicted in Arthur Streeton's 1926 painting Land of the Golden Fleece

Climate

Due to being an exposed peak in the west of Victoria, Mount William features especially cool maximum temperatures throughout the year. Winter cloud cover is profound; with an extraordinary 26 days of precipitation in July, constituting an annual total of 215 days—quite possibly the highest figure of any site in mainland Australia.

Snowfalls are both frequent and heavy throughout the year. Daily maximum temperatures can struggle above the single digits even in summer, and on such days the afternoon and mid-day readings can be near to 0 °C (32 °F) in extreme cases such as in December 2022. The peak can be classed as a cold and moist Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) on account of the low summer rainfall − in February averaging only 32.2 millimetres (1.27 in) of rain.

Climate data for Grampians (Mount William, 2005–2024); 1,150 m AMSL; 37.30° S, 142.60° E
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Record high °C (°F)	36.6 (97.9)	36.6 (97.9)	32.2 (90.0)	26.1 (79.0)	18.0 (64.4)	13.4 (56.1)	12.1 (53.8)	16.1 (61.0)	20.6 (69.1)	27.0 (80.6)	32.1 (89.8)	34.9 (94.8)	36.6 (97.9)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	21.3 (70.3)	20.1 (68.2)	17.3 (63.1)	12.5 (54.5)	8.3 (46.9)	5.8 (42.4)	5.1 (41.2)	5.8 (42.4)	8.8 (47.8)	12.7 (54.9)	15.8 (60.4)	18.3 (64.9)	12.7 (54.7)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	10.2 (50.4)	9.5 (49.1)	8.4 (47.1)	6.0 (42.8)	3.6 (38.5)	1.8 (35.2)	1.0 (33.8)	1.3 (34.3)	2.3 (36.1)	4.0 (39.2)	6.3 (43.3)	7.7 (45.9)	5.2 (41.3)
Record low °C (°F)	0.9 (33.6)	1.0 (33.8)	−0.1 (31.8)	−1.2 (29.8)	−2.1 (28.2)	−2.6 (27.3)	−4.1 (24.6)	−2.9 (26.8)	−3.8 (25.2)	−3.3 (26.1)	−2.5 (27.5)	−0.5 (31.1)	−4.1 (24.6)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	66.1 (2.60)	32.2 (1.27)	54.3 (2.14)	82.9 (3.26)	127.7 (5.03)	143.1 (5.63)	175.4 (6.91)	151.1 (5.95)	118.9 (4.68)	94.1 (3.70)	75.1 (2.96)	61.8 (2.43)	1,177.4 (46.35)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.2 mm)	9.3	11.3	14.6	18.3	22.2	24.5	25.6	23.9	21.1	17.1	15.3	11.9	215.1
Source: Australian Bureau of Meteorology; Grampians (Mount William)

References

"Climate statistics for Grampians (Mount William)". Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 8 April 2023.

External links

Geoscience Australia - Mount William

Mountains in Victoria, Australia

Grampians

William (1,167 m or 3,829 ft)
Difficult
Wilson
Zero (364 m or 1,194 ft)

Victorian Alps

Bogong High Plains	Nelse West (1,893 m or 6,211 ft) Nelse North (1,885 m or 6,184 ft) Fainter South (1,883 m or 6,178 ft) Hotham (1,862 m or 6,109 ft) McKay (1,849 m or 6,066 ft) Cope (1,837 m or 6,027 ft) Spion Kopje (1,837 m or 6,027 ft) Jim (1,818 m or 5,965 ft)
Cathedral Range	Lake (1,482 m or 4,862 ft) The Green Hill (1,241 m or 4,072 ft) Sugarloaf (904 m or 2,966 ft) The Cathedral (801 m or 2,628 ft) South Jawbone Peak (761 m or 2,497 ft)
Cobberas Range	Cobberas No. 1 (1,810 m or 5,938 ft) Cobberas No. 2 Moscow Peak Middle Peak Cleft Peak
Cobbler Plateau	Speculation (1,648 m or 5,407 ft) Cobbler (1,628 m or 5,341 ft) Koonika (1,545 m or 5,069 ft) Despair (1,460 m or 4,790 ft)
Other	Bogong (1,986 m or 6,516 ft) Feathertop (1,922 m or 6,306 ft) Loch (1,865 m or 6,119 ft) Buller (1,805 m or 5,922 ft) Wills (1,755 m or 5,758 ft) Gibbo (1,750 m or 5,741 ft) Stirling (1,749 m or 5,738 ft) Howitt (1,742 m or 5,715 ft) The Horn (1,723 m or 5,653 ft) Buffalo (1,723 m or 5,653 ft) Wellington (1,634 m or 5,361 ft) Buggery (Alpine) (1,598 m or 5,243 ft) Baw Baw (1,567 m or 5,141 ft) Saint Phillack (1,567 m or 5,141 ft) Torbreck (1,516 m or 4,974 ft) St Gwinear (1,509 m or 4,951 ft) Mueller (1,460 m or 4,790 ft) Selma (1,456 m or 4,777 ft) Useful (1,435 m or 4,708 ft) Tambo (1,430 m or 4,692 ft) Selwyn (1,411 m or 4,629 ft) Terrible (1,325 m or 4,347 ft) Donna Buang (1,250 m or 4,101 ft) Buggery (Wangaratta) (1,153 m or 3,783 ft) Bulla Bulla (906 m or 2,972 ft) Dom Dom (740 m or 2,428 ft) Brumby Point Pine

Other
mountain ranges

Central Highlands	Macedon (1,001 m or 3,284 ft)
Dandenong Ranges	Dandenong (633 m or 2,077 ft)
Pyrenees Ranges	Avoca (747 m or 2,451 ft) Warrenmang (537 m or 1,762 ft)
Strzelecki Ranges	Tassie (740 m or 2,428 ft)
Other	Matlock (1,377 m or 4,518 ft) Ritchie (1,259 m or 4,131 ft) Toorongo (1,247 m or 4,091 ft) Horsfall (1,130 m or 3,707 ft) Kaye (998 m or 3,274 ft) Elizabeth (941 m or 3,087 ft) Ghiran (924 m or 3,031 ft) Disappointment (794 m or 2,605 ft) Riddell (781 m or 2,562 ft) Beenak (745 m or 2,444 ft) Alexander (744 m or 2,441 ft) Buninyong (719 m or 2,359 ft) Hanging Rock / Diogenes (718 m or 2,356 ft) Warrenheip (714 m or 2,343 ft) Franklin (648 m or 2,126 ft) Beckworth (634 m or 2,080 ft) Corhanwarrabul (628 m or 2,060 ft) Tarrengower (556 m or 1,824 ft) Warrenmang (526 m or 1,726 ft) Teneriffe (444 m or 1,457 ft) Napier (440 m or 1,444 ft) Briggs Bluff (420 m or 1,378 ft) Arapiles (369 m or 1,211 ft) You Yangs (352 m or 1,155 ft) Leura (313 m or 1,027 ft) Noorat (310 m or 1,017 ft) Elephant (240 m or 787 ft) Warrnambool (216 m or 709 ft) Budj Bim (178 m or 584 ft) Wycheproof (148 m or 486 ft) Cooper (137 m or 449 ft) Fraser Hopeless Typo Jack Hills

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