Mount Disappointment
Mount Disappointment is an 800-metre peak in the Mount Disappointment State Forest in Victoria, Australia, located about 60 kilometres north of Melbourne . December 1824, explorers Hamilton Hume and William Hovell climbed the range during their overland expedition from New South Wales to Port Phillip Bay. They were the first white men to cross what is now Victoria, and the first white men in Australia to see the snow-capped peaks of the Australian Alps. The expedition originated in a whimsical proposal by Sir Thomas Brisbane, then Governor of New South Wales. The Port Phillip district then, and for many years after, part of New South Wales, was unknown territory. In order to discover the character of the country, the Governor proposed that a party of convicts should be taken by water to the southern coast, and turned loose, to find their way overland to Sydney. If they succeeded, they were to obtain free par...