Editing Strzelecki Ranges (section)

{{Short description|Mountain range in Victoria, Australia}}
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|name                   = Strzelecki Ranges
|other_name             = '''''Tolone'''''<ref name=vicnames1>{{cite web|url=http://services.land.vic.gov.au/vicnames/historicalInformation.html?method=edit&id=5183|title=Strzelecki Ranges: Historical information: 5183|date=12 August 1991|work=Vicnames|accessdate=7 August 2014}}</ref>
|photo                  = View of Strzelecki Ranges.jpg
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|photo_caption          = View of the Strzelecki Ranges looking towards Mirboo North
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|country                = Australia
|region                 = [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]
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|range_coordinates_ref  = <ref name=vicnames>{{cite web|url=http://services.land.vic.gov.au/vicnames/place.html?method=edit&id=26642|title=Strzelecki Ranges: 26642|date=2 May 1966|work=Vicnames|access-date=7 August 2014}}</ref>
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The '''Strzelecki Ranges''' ({{IPAc-en|s|t|r|ɛ|z|ˈ|l|ɛ|k|i}} {{respelling|strehz|LECK|ee}}) is a set of low mountain ridges located in the [[West Gippsland]] and [[South Gippsland]] regions of the Australian state of [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]].

The Ranges are named after [[Paweł Strzelecki|Paweł Edmund Strzelecki]], a Polish explorer, who with the assistance of Charley Tarra the small party's Aboriginal guide, led an expedition through this region in 1840.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Bush |first=Don |last=Watson |publisher=Penguin/Hamish Hamilton |year=2014 |pages=6–7 |isbn=9781926428697 }}</ref>

They also form a [[biogeography|biogeographic]] subregion of the [[South Eastern Highlands]].<ref name=":3">{{cite web |url=http://www.environment.gov.au/parks/nrs/science/bioregion-framework/ibra/index.html |title=Australia's bioregions (IBRA) |work=Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities |publisher=Commonwealth of Australia |year=2012 |accessdate=13 January 2013}}</ref> "Land of the Lyrebird"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/landoflyrebirdst00melb|title=Land of the Lyrebird|date=1920}}</ref> is also a common alternative name for the Strzelecki Ranges based on a popular 1920s book.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fieldcapture.ala.org.au/project/index/0717eab1-bfbb-4d39-9799-c856ea42b238|title=Strzelecki Ranges, Land of the Lyrebird|publisher=Commonwealth of Australia|year=2014|accessdate=24 July 2018}}</ref>