Independent: Australia’s most spectacular mountain landscapes, home to unique native species, have been placed on the national heritage register. The Alps of south-eastern Australia cover an area of 1.5 million hectares and encompass 11 national parks and reserves. The site is the largest and most complex to be heritage listed. It includes the Snowy Mountains, which inspired Banjo Patterson, one of Australia’s best known “bush poets”, to pen his famous ballad in 1890. “The Man From Snowy …