The Australian Alps is a section of the Great Dividing Range where it is one of the few places where it snows most of the year. Interestingly, the Australian Alps get more snowfall than the entirety of Switzerland.
The region accounts for most of the alpine environment in mainland Australia, however the region does not include any of Tasmania which too contains a large alpine environment.
The Australian Alps National Parks is a government cooperative program created in cooperation with the Director of National Parks (by the federal government), Parks Victoria, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Services and the ACT Parks and Conservation Service along with the first peoples of Australia to protect the fragile environment that takes up only 0.1 percent of Australia.
See also: Winter sports in Australia
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