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Carrum
Carrum is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne's Melbourne city centre, Central Business District, located within the City of Kingston Local Government Areas of Victoria, local government area. Carrum recorded a population of 4,239 at the . Public schools in Carrum include Patterson River Secondary College and Carrum Primary School. History The suburb of Carrum is located on what was originally part of the Carrum Carrum Swamp. The Carrum Carrum Swamp was drained in 1879 when the Patterson Cut (formed in 1876), and other drainage measures were undertaken to prevent flooding of the Eumemmerring Creek, Eumemmering Creek, which overflowed into the Carrum Carrum Swamp. The swamp opening was mostly only open during the Winter months, so heavy Spring and Summer rains often caused flooding to properties on the edge of the swamp area. It also often caused flood damage as far north as Edithvale. The only remnants of the Carrum Carrum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrum Beach
Carrum is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Kingston local government area. Carrum recorded a population of 4,239 at the . Public schools in Carrum include Patterson River Secondary College and Carrum Primary School. History The suburb of Carrum is located on what was originally part of the Carrum Carrum Swamp. The Carrum Carrum Swamp was drained in 1879 when the Patterson Cut (formed in 1876), and other drainage measures were undertaken to prevent flooding of the Eumemmering Creek, which overflowed into the Carrum Carrum Swamp. The swamp opening was mostly only open during the Winter months, so heavy Spring and Summer rains often caused flooding to properties on the edge of the swamp area. It also often caused flood damage as far north as Edithvale. The only remnants of the Carrum Carrum Swamp now form the Ramsar-listed Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands. Old Carrum had a proud horse-racing l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrum Football Club
The Carrum-Patterson Lakes Football Club is an Australian rules football club from Melbourne, that was founded in 1909 and currently plays in Division 3 of the Southern Football League. History Football has been reported to be played in Carrum since as early as 1902. Between 1902 and 1908 it has been well reported that a 'Carrum Football Club' played pre-season matches against the likes of Frankston Football Club and Mornington Football Club but never competed in an organised competition. A news article from the ''Mornington Standard'' in 1909 reported the formation of the 'Carrum Football Club' with R. W. Jones elected as President and M. McCauley and A. Rigby as Vice-Presidents. Despite forming a club in 1909 and playing one-off matches they would not compete in regular competition until 1911. Carrum Football Club first competed in the Federal Football Association as Carrum-Chelsea Football Club in 1911, competing against Moorabbin, Cheltenham and Victoria Brewery. In 1912 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patterson Lakes, Victoria
Patterson Lakes is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Kingston local government area. Patterson Lakes recorded a population of 7,793 at the 2021 census. Patterson Lakes is a canal-rich suburb. It was built around the lower section of the Patterson River just upstream of the river mouth. The suburb consists predominantly of new housing developments, and is home to the most popular boat launching facilities in Victoria. The Patterson River is a popular boating portal for Port Phillip Bay. It includes four public launching ramps; joins the Tidal Canal system to Port Phillip; and includes the Patterson Lakes Marina and its facilities in Middle Harbour and Inner Harbour. History Early history After the melting of the last great ice age, sea levels were 1–2 metres higher than today. When sea levels subsided to their current levels, fresh water from the Dandenong Ranges flowed into low-lyin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrum Railway Station
Carrum railway station is located on the Frankston line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Carrum, and opened on 1 August 1882. History Carrum station opened on 1 August 1882, when the line from Mordialloc was extended to Frankston. Like the suburb itself, the station was named after the nearby Carrum Swamp, the name believed to be derived from an Indigenous word describing a boomerang. In 1947, interlocked gates were installed at the former Station Street level crossing, which was at the up end of the station, and was the last installation of interlocking gates in Victoria. In 1977, boom barriers replaced these gates. In 1988, siding "A" and the goods platform was abolished, as well as the connection from siding "B" to the mainline. Approximately 100 metres south of the station was a stabling yard that could hold a number of trains. The yard, which was provided in 1990, was replaced due to the level crossing removal works, being r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patterson River
The Patterson River is a partly man-made urban river of the Port Phillip catchment in the Australian east coast state of Victoria, located in the outer southeastern suburbs of the Greater Melbourne region. Under the name "Patterson", it is the shortest river in Victoria at only in length, although its main stem tributary and ''de facto'' upper section, the Dandenong Creek, is over long. Location and features The man-made river was constructed in 1878 as the Patterson Cut to assist the drainage of coastal swamplands located in what is now the suburb of Carrum. The headwaters of its two main tributaries, Dandenong Creek and Eumemmerring Creek, both originate in the Dandenong Ranges, and the "Patterson"-named section only refers to the lower reach formed after the confluence of the two creeks southwest of , approximately southeast of Melbourne CBD. The river then flows generally southwest (picking up numerous minor drainage channels) and drops to a lower level at a we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Carrum
The electoral district of Carrum is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It lies in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, covering Bangholme, Bonbeach, Carrum, Carrum Downs, Patterson Lakes, Sandhurst, Seaford and Skye. The seat was created in 1976 and traditionally has had a working class character and has been safe for the Labor Party. However, since the 1990s the area has been gentrifying and the seat was won by the Liberal Party against the trend at the 1996 election. However, the seat was narrowly recovered by Labor due to the Anti-Kennett swing in 1999 and the 'Brackslide' of 2002 reverted the seat to its original safe Labor status. The 2013 redistribution significantly reshaped the seat, with the seat losing Aspendale, Edithvale and parts of Chelsea to the seat of Mordialloc and gaining Carrum Downs and Sandhurst from the seat of Cranbourne. In the 2014 Victorian State Election, Labor MP Sonya Kilkenny Sonya Kilkenny (born 15 May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankston, Victoria
Frankston is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Frankston local government area. Frankston recorded a population of 37,331 at the 2021 census. Due to its geographic location north of the Mornington Peninsula, it is often referred to as "the gateway to the Mornington Peninsula". European settlement of Frankston began around the same time as the foundation of Melbourne in 1835—initially as an unofficial fishing village serving the early Melbourne township. Prior to its settlement, the Frankston area was primarily inhabited by the Mayone-bulluk clan from the Bunurong tribe of the Kulin nation. The official village of Frankston was established in 1854, with its first land sales taking place on 29 May. It has subsequently given its name to the broader Frankston local government area since 1893, and serves as both its activity and administrative centre. Situated on the eastern shoreline ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrum Carrum Swamp
The Carrum Carrum Swamp was a historic coastal wetland encompassing with a catchment area of that . It had four drainage outlets into the Port Phillip Bay, including the modern-day Kananook Creek/Eel Race Drain, Patterson River and Mordialloc Creek (a distributary of the Patterson River's upper section, the Dandenong Creek). Explorer William Hovell discovered "a very extensive fresh water marsh, from 12 to 15 miles long and 11/2 to 6 broad, and only separated from Port Phillip by a narrow ridge or bank of sand not more than from two hundred to three hundred yards wide." A painting titled "Lagoon in the Carrum Carrum Swamp – evening 1872" by James W Curtis is held at the National Gallery of Australia. Due to modern land developments and drainage measures only remnants of the swamp remain, such as the Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands. History Carrum Swamp's waters came from the Dandenong Creek (with headwaters in the moist Dandenong Ranges, and the Eumemmerring Creek with headwate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seaford, Victoria
Seaford is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 36 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Frankston local government area. Seaford recorded a population of 17,215 at the . History Seaford was the site of the Karrum Karrum swamp, which was utilised for food by the Bunurong Aboriginal people. In the early twentieth century, after European settlement, the swamp was drained for farming purposes (with wet areas remaining only at low lands; including Seaford and the Edithvale wetlands). The name Seaford arose during a meeting of local residents in 1913, called to decide upon a name for the settlement and the new railway station about to open. It was agreed that the name should contain some reference to the sea. Councillor Sydney Plowman suggested "Seaford", dropping the "l" from his home town of Sleaford, in Lincolnshire, England. The suggestion was adopted. The Seaford Post Office opened on 6 March 1914. During the 1950s a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands
The Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands is a collection of principally freshwater swamps and marshlands totalling in southeastern Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, about southeast of Melbourne CBD. It is the largest natural wetland of its type in the Port Phillip and Western Port basins, and is all that remains of the historic Carrum Carrum Swamp, which once covered more than from present-day Mordialloc in the north to Frankston in the south. The surviving wetlands are divided into two groups, namely the northern Edithvale Wetlands ( in total) and the southern Seaford Wetlands ( in total), which together form the Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands Ramsar Site. Along with the nearby Eastern Treatment Plant, they form the Carrum Wetlands Important Bird Area. All the wetlands are no more than away from the shore of Beaumaris Bay, bounded by Governor Road in the north, the coastal Nepean Highway in the west, the Mornington Peninsula Freeway and Frankston Freeway in the east, and Seaford Road ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patterson River Secondary College
Patterson River Secondary College is a Public school (government funded), public co-educational high school located in Carrum, Victoria, Carrum, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. Formerly called the Seaford Carrum High School, in 1992 the school merged with the nearby Bonbeach High School, staying on the site of Seaford-Carrum. The school caters for approximately 1,120 students and has over 120 staff. The current Principal (school), principal is Daniel Dew. The three vice-principals are Samantha Jeacle, Lisa Cavey, and Adam Slater. Patterson River has a mean study score of 28 across all subjects as of 2018. History The school was called Seaford-Carrum High at the time of opening. When it was first opened, it operated in the position the current Carrum Primary School is. 2005 student-teacher incident In mid-2005, a teacher at Patterson River, working in a portable at the back of the school, lacking a telephone, experienced harassment from a male student. After having ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonbeach, Victoria
Bonbeach is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 31 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Kingston local government area. Bonbeach recorded a population of 6,855 at the . Facilities The entire coastline of Bonbeach consists of a sandy beach facing Port Phillip. Bonbeach has a string of cafés and restaurants along the Nepean Highway. Since 1926, Bonbeach has been serviced by Bonbeach railway station; a two-platform station on the Frankston line. This station was used during the filming of a scene in the Australian television series ''Kath & Kim''. Bonbeach Post Office opened on 19 November 1922 (closing in 1923, then reopening in 1926 on the opening of the railway station) and finally closed in 1985. Bonbeach has a school calleBonbeach Primary School The town has an Australian Rules football team competing in the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League and a cricket team competing in the Cricket Southern Bayside c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
