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Panorama of the Rocket Lake Campground in the Murray-Sunset National Park, Victoria, Australia. Murray-Sunset National Park is the largest national park in Victoria with 677,000 hectares providing refuge for wildlife and threatened plants. The park is fairly remote about 550 kilometres north-west from Melbourne and 400 kilometres east from Adelaide. The vegetation around the campground is dominated by low mallee eucalypts and shrubs. 4WD vehicles are recommended to access Rocket Lake and the Campground.
Victoria is Australia's second smallest State and covers only 3% of Australia's land area but has the second highest population of all States and Territories. Victoria's mainland and islands have a total length of 2,512 kilometres coastline which is about 4.2% of Australia's 59,736 kilometres of coastline. Australia is the driest inhabited continent and Victoria is no exception although the state capital Melbourne has the reputation to have 4 seasons in one day. Victoria is located in the southeast of mainland Australia and includes the most southern point on mainland Australia at Wilsons Promontory National Park.