What is Mount Fraser?
[[Image:Mount Fraser panorama.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Mount Fraser, Victoria]] [[Image:Hume and Hovell memorial Beveridge.JPG|thumb|220px|right|Hume and Hovell memorial at the bottom of Mount Fraser]] '''Mount Fraser''' is a [[volcano|volcanic]] cone near [[Beveridge, Victoria]], [[Australia]]. The [[extinct volcano]] last erupted about one million years ago. It is about 120 metres in height above the surrounding land. The distance around the base of the volcano is 1200 metres. There are two craters.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dpi.vic.gov.au/dpi/vro/portregn.nsf/pages/pp_eruption_points_fraser |title=Mount Fraser |accessdate=2009-08-09 |format= |work=Victorian Resources Online }}</ref> One crater is wide and shallow, and the other is small and closed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mcmc.org.au/content/view/187/284/ |title=Site 37 Mount Fraser Eruption Point |accessdate=2009-01-13 |format= |work=Merri Creek Geological Sites |archive-date=2008-11-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121011118/http://www.mcmc.org.au/content/view/187/284/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is been listed on the Australian Heritage database.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;place_id=4393 |title= Mount Fraser|accessdate=2009-08-09 |format= |work=Australian Heritage database }}</ref> The explorers, [[Hamilton Hume]] and [[William Hovell]], first climbed Mount Fraser on [[14 December]] [[1824]], and saw [[Port Phillip Bay]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.redreaming.info/DisplayStory.asp?id=47 |title=Beveridge |accessdate=2008-08-13 |format= |work=Redreaming the Plain |archive-date=2008-07-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720055009/http://www.redreaming.info/DisplayStory.asp?id=47 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was called Mount Bland and Big Hill in the past. The [[bushranger]] [[Ned Kelly]] was born near Mount Fraser. The volcano was also a site for flying [[glider]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3914664 |title=Returning home |ac