Mount Rouse Shire

Mount Rouse shire (1864-1994) was in western Victoria between Hamilton and Mortlake.

Mount Rouse is a volcanic cone (367m) in the south of the former shire. It was named by the New South Wales Surveyor-General, Thomas Mitchell, when returning from his Australia Felix expedition in 1836. He probably named it after Richard Rouse, a pastoralist of Parramatta, New South Wales.