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2006–07 Eastern Victoria Great Divide Bushfires
The Eastern Victoria Great Divide bushfires, also known as the Great Divide Complex, were a series of bushfires that commenced in the Victorian Alps in Australia on 1 December 2006 due to lightning strikes, and continued for 69 days. They were the longest running bushfires in the state's history. Between 1.2 and 1.3 million hectares were burnt, most of it public land. Victorian fire personnel were assisted by others from all states and territories of Australia, as well as teams from New Zealand, the United States and Canada. Timeline On 11 December it was reported that the fires had reached Mount Stirling, and destroyed Craig's Hut, well known as the setting for the film '' The Man from Snowy River''. The bushfire smoke spread across the state, and by 20 December visibility in Melbourne was reduced to two kilometres, causing disruption to flights at Melbourne Airport On 11 January a number of buildings and stock were lost at Tambo Crossing as the firefront crossed to the east ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state with a land area of , the second most populated state (after New South Wales) with a population of over 6.5 million, and the most densely populated state in Australia (28 per km2). Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west, and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Great Australian Bight portion of the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate coastal and central regions to the Victorian Alps in the northeast and the semi-arid north-west. The majority of the Victorian population is concentrated in the central-south area surrounding Port Phillip Bay, and in particular within the metropolit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tawonga Gap
Tawonga is a town in northeast Victoria, Australia. The town is on the Kiewa Valley Highway, in the Alpine Shire local government area, northeast of the state capital, Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met .... At the , Tawonga had a population of 574. Tawonga Post Office opened on 4 October 1879. References Towns in Victoria (Australia) Towns in Central Hume Alpine Shire {{Hume-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Victoria (Australia)
This article describes the history of the Australian colony and state of Victoria. Before British colonisation of Australia, many Aboriginal peoples lived in the area now known as Victoria. A couple of years after the first Europeans settled there, in September 1836 the area became part of the colony of New South Wales, known as the District of Port Phillip. From 1851 until 1901 it became the Colony of Victoria, with its own government within the British Empire. In 1901 it became a state of the new Commonwealth of Australia. Aboriginal history The state of Victoria was originally home to many Aboriginal nations that had occupied the land for tens of thousands of years. According to Gary Presland, Aboriginal people have lived in Victoria for about 40,000 years, living a semi-nomadic existence of fishing, hunting and gathering, and farming eels, as is evident in the Budj Bim heritage areas. At the Keilor Archaeological Site a human hearth excavated in 1971 was radiocarbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Fires In Oceania
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven Classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. It is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Unlike Western culture, in Vietnamese culture, the number seven is sometimes considered unlucky. It is the first natural number whose pronunciation contains more than one syllable. Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, Indians wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted. The western Ghubar Arabs' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arabs developed the digit f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Fires In Oceania
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second smallest composite number, behind 4; its proper divisors are , and . Since 6 equals the sum of its proper divisors, it is a perfect number; 6 is the smallest of the perfect numbers. It is also the smallest Granville number, or \mathcal-perfect number. As a perfect number: *6 is related to the Mersenne prime 3, since . (The next perfect number is 28.) *6 is the only even perfect number that is not the sum of successive odd cubes. *6 is the root of the 6-aliquot tree, and is itself the aliquot sum of only one other number; the square number, . Six is the only number that is both the sum and the product of three consecutive positive numbers. Unrelated to 6's being a perfect number, a Golomb ruler of length 6 is a "perfect ruler". Six is a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 In Australia
The following lists events that happened during 2007 in Australia. Incumbents *Monarch – Elizabeth II *Governor-General – Michael Jeffery *Prime Minister – John Howard (until 3 December), then Kevin Rudd **Deputy Prime Minister – Mark Vaile (until 3 December), then Julia Gillard **Opposition Leader – Kevin Rudd (until 3 December), then Brendan Nelson * Chief Justice – Murray Gleeson State and Territory Leaders *Premier of New South Wales – Morris Iemma **Opposition Leader – Peter Debnam (until 2 April), then Barry O'Farrell *Premier of Queensland – Peter Beattie (until 13 September), then Anna Bligh **Opposition Leader – Jeff Seeney *Premier of South Australia – Mike Rann **Opposition Leader – Iain Evans (until 12 April), then Martin Hamilton-Smith *Premier of Tasmania – Paul Lennon **Opposition Leader – Will Hodgman *Premier of Victoria – Steve Bracks (until 30 July), then John Brumby **Opposition Leader – Ted Baillieu *Premier of Western Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 In Australia
The following lists events that happened during 2006 in Australia. Incumbents *Monarch – Elizabeth II *Governor-General – Michael Jeffery *Prime Minister – John Howard **Deputy Prime Minister – Mark Vaile **Opposition Leader – Kim Beazley (until 4 December), then Kevin Rudd * Chief Justice – Murray Gleeson State and Territory Leaders *Premier of New South Wales – Morris Iemma **Opposition Leader – Peter Debnam *Premier of Queensland – Peter Beattie **Opposition Leader – Lawrence Springborg (until 18 September), then Jeff Seeney *Premier of South Australia – Mike Rann **Opposition Leader – Rob Kerin (until 18 March), then Iain Evans *Premier of Tasmania – Paul Lennon **Opposition Leader – Rene Hidding (until 30 March), then Will Hodgman *Premier of Victoria – Steve Bracks **Opposition Leader – Robert Doyle (until 8 May), then Ted Baillieu *Premier of Western Australia – Geoff Gallop (until 16 January), then Alan Carpenter **Opposition Leade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatong
Tatong is a town in north eastern Victoria, Australia. The town is on the northern foothills of the Blue Ranges, part of the Great Dividing Range, beside Holland Creek, north east of the state capital, Melbourne. At the , Tatong had a population of 350 declining to 287 in 2016. The area is a mixture of farmland, pine plantations and dense bush History The Post Office opened on 10 October 1890 and closed in 1993. In 1914, a railway from Benalla to Tatong was opened. Timber from the surrounding hills was harvested to supply the early Melbourne power station, but coal from the Latrobe Valley became the favoured fuel source. In February 1928, staff were withdrawn from Tatong railway station. Persistent operating losses on the operation of the line led its closure in July 1947. Tatong is the birthplace of Michael Joseph Savage, the first Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand, and Graeme Peck, male lead for the Australian Ballet Company. Facilities It has a pub, the Tatong Tave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fire Activity Swifts Creek 2007 Edit
Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material (the fuel) in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products. At a certain point in the combustion reaction, called the ignition point, flames are produced. The ''flame'' is the visible portion of the fire. Flames consist primarily of carbon dioxide, water vapor, oxygen and nitrogen. If hot enough, the gases may become ionized to produce plasma. Depending on the substances alight, and any impurities outside, the color of the flame and the fire's intensity will be different. Fire in its most common form can result in conflagration, which has the potential to cause physical damage through burning. Fire is an important process that affects ecological systems around the globe. The positive effects of fire include stimulating growth and maintaining various ecological systems. Its negative effects include hazard to life and property, atmospheric pollution, and water contamination. If fire re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Alps
The Victorian Alps, also known locally as the High Country, is a large mountain system in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria. Occupying the majority of eastern Victoria, it is the southwestern half of the Australian Alps (the other half being the Snowy Mountains), the tallest portion of the Great Dividing Range. The Yarra and Dandenong Ranges, both sources of rivers and drinking waters for Melbourne (Victoria's capital, largest city and home to three quarters of the state's population), are branches of the Victorian Alps. The promise of gold in the mid-1800s, during the Victorian Gold rush led to the European settlement of the area. The region's rich natural resources brought a second wave of agricultural settlers; the foothills around the Victorian Alps today has a large agrarian sector, with significant cattle stations being sold recently for over thirty million dollars. The Victorian Alps is also the source of many of Victoria's water ways, including Murray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Elizabeth (Victoria)
Mount Elizabeth is a mountain to the east of Tambo Crossing in East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. It lies within the Mount Elizabeth Nature Conservation Reserve managed by Parks Victoria. The reserve, which covers 5,234 hectares (12,934 acres), was established in 1984. The reserve is the only known location where the endangered plant species leafy nematolepis ('' Nematolepis frondosa'') occurs. Other rare or vulnerable plant species found in the reserve include Tullach Ard grevillea ('' Grevillea polychroma''), outcrop guinea-flower ( ''Hibbertia hermanniifolia'' subsp. ''recondita''), Mount Elizabeth hovea ('' Hovea magnibractea''), monkey mint-bush (''Prostanthera walteri'') and leafless pink-bells ('' Tetratheca subaphylla''). Fauna species of note include the lace monitor, yellow-tailed black cockatoo and gang-gang cockatoo. A sawmill was established by the Collins Brothers which was reported to be at full capacity in 1937. The harvested timbers included messmate (''Eu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Alpine Road
} The Great Alpine Road (B500) is a country tourist road in Victoria, Australia, running from Wangaratta in the north to Bairnsdale in the east, and passing through the Victorian Alps. The road was given its current name because it was considered the mountain equivalent to Victoria's world-famous Great Ocean Road in the south-west of the state. The road usually remains open during winter; however, vehicles travelling between Harrietville and Omeo are required to carry diamond-patternMount HothamWheel Chains/ref> snow chains during the declared snow season.Travel VictoriaGreat Alpine Road/ref> Route The Great Alpine Road links Victoria's North East with Gippsland, winding through mountains, valleys and forests, and past rivers, vineyards and farms. At a length of , it is Australia's highest year-round accessible sealed road. The section over Mount Hotham rises to an altitude of AMSL. It is blanketed with snow during winter months and must be cleared on a daily basis. Extreme weat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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