Mount Kooroocheang

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Mount Kooroocheang

Mount Kooroocheang, also known as Smeaton Hill,[1] is a dormant volcano, situated near the town of Smeaton, Victoria, Australia. It is about 140 km northwest of Melbourne.[2] It is a large composite scoria cone.[3] Mount Kooroocheang is one of the largest eruption points on the Victorian Central Plateau,[4] and is about 230 metres in height above the surrounding plains[5] and 676 metres above sea level.[1] There is a communications tower on the summit.

Mount Kooroocheang was featured in a painting by Eugene von Guerard in 1864, "A view from Mount Franklin towards Mount Kooroocheang and the Pyrenees", which is in the Queensland Art Gallery.[6]

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