Edmonsons Hut
The place
Edmonsons Hut in the Alpine district, Falls Creek/Mount Bogong sector (Alpine National Park, Bogong High Plains, Victoria, Australia), at 1745 m elevation, on the Bogong High Plains plateau. Continuous Australia Victoria Alpine NP cluster (batches 200-378). A historic pastoral hut (named after Edmonson, an 1850s Alpine grazing settler; the Bogong High Plains, an iconic 1800 m plateau for skiing and hiking; Alpine National Park, 6462 km², established 1989, Victoria's largest park; Falls Creek, Victoria's largest ski resort with 30 lifts; Mount Bogong, 1986 m, Victoria's highest peak; and the heritage of the Yaithmathang/Djinning-Mittung, an Aboriginal people of the Kulin Nation in Alpine Victoria speaking the Yaithmathang language; the Bogong moth, Agrotis infusa, which migrates 2000 km from Queensland to the Alps in swarms of up to 5 billion individuals, the basis of an Aboriginal food-gathering ritual and once the largest known prehistoric human gathering in Australia; and the catastrophic 99.5% biomass collapse of the Bogong moth in 2019, a climate-driven biodiversity crash).
The setting
Alpine Falls Creek/Mount Bogong Alpine NP Bogong High Plains Victoria AU 1745 m Bogong plateau, continuous cluster batches 200-378, pastoral hut Edmonson 1850s Alpine grazing + Bogong 1800 m iconic + Alpine NP 6462 km² 1989 Victoria's largest + Falls Creek 30 lifts + Mount Bogong 1986 m Victoria's highest, Yaithmathang/Djinning-Mittung Kulin Nation Alpine Yaithmathang + Bogong moth Agrotis infusa 2000 km QLD-Alps up to 5 billion individuals + 2019 crash 99.5% biomass collapse.
