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Glenrowan, Victoria
Glenrowan is a town located in the Wangaratta local government area of Victoria, Australia. It is 236 kilometres north-east of Melbourne and 14 kilometres from Wangaratta and near the Warby Ranges and Mount Glenrowan. At the , Glenrowan had a population of 963. History Glenrowan was named after farmers James and George Rowan who ran farms in the area between 1846 and 1858. The township was settled in the late 1860s, the Post Office opening on 22 February 1870. It is famous for the bushranger Ned Kelly, who made his last stand and was eventually captured there in 1880 after a siege and shootout with police. The local railway station opened in 1874 and closed to passengers in 1981. The town gives its name to the Glenrowan wine region which was formally defined in 2003, with the first grape vines planted in 1866. The town today Glenrowan is a popular rest point for those travelling on the Hume Freeway. In the township of Glenrowan, off the highway, tourists can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Ovens Valley
The electoral district of Ovens Valley is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in Australia. It was created in the redistribution of electoral boundaries in 2013, and came into effect at the 2014 state election. It largely covers areas from the abolished district of Murray Valley, centering on the city of Wangaratta. It includes the towns of Yarrawonga, Cobram, and other towns in the local government areas of Moira, Wangaratta, and Alpine. The abolished seat of Murray Valley was held by Nationals MP Tim McCurdy Timothy Logan McCurdy (born 16 January 1963) is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 2010, representing Murray Valley until 2014 and Ovens Valley thereafter. He was the shadow minister fo ..., who retained the new seat at the 2014 election. Members Election results References External links District profile from the Victorian Electoral Commission Ovens Valley, Electoral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenrowan Wine Region
The Glenrowan wine region is a wine growing region in the Australian state of Victoria, including the town of Glenrowan. "Glenrowan" was entered in the Register of Protected Names on 14 October 2003 as the name of a region. The region surrounds Lake Mokoan and includes the towns of and the western part of Wangaratta and northeastern part of Benalla. It extends a small amount southeast of the Hume Highway, and further to the north and west. The Midland Highway is part of the southwestern boundary and the Wangaratta-Yarrawonga Road (C374) is the northeastern boundary. The first vines were planted by Varley Bailey on his father's property in 1866. The region was devastated by phylloxera in the 1890s but quickly replanted on resistant rootstocks. There are now 13 growers and seven cellar doors. See also *Victorian wine Victorian wine is wine made in the Australian state of Victoria. With over 600 wineries, Victoria has more wine producers than any other Australian wine-prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Towns In Central Hume
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than city, cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German language, German word , the Dutch language, Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic language, Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh language, Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Towns In Victoria (Australia)
This is a list of locality names and populated place names in the state of Victoria, Australia, outside the Melbourne metropolitan area. It is organised by region from the south-west of the state to the east and, for convenience, is sectioned by Local Government Area (LGA). Localities are bounded areas recorded on VICNAMES, although boundaries are the responsibility of each council. Many localities cross LGA boundaries, some being partly within three LGAs, but are listed here once under the LGA in which the major population centre or area occurs. The Office of Geographic Names (OGN), led by the Registrar of Geographic Names, administers the naming or renaming of localities (as well as roads, and other features) in Victoria, and maintains the Register of Geographic Names, referred as the VICNAMES register, pursuant to the ''Geographic Place Names Act 1998''. The OGN has issued the mandatory ''Naming rules for places in Victoria, Statutory requirements for naming roads, features ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Outlaw (miniseries)
''The Last Outlaw'' is a 1980 Australian four-part television miniseries based on the life of Ned Kelly. It was shot from February to May 1980Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970–1995'' (1996), p.210, Oxford University Press. and the end of its original broadcast, in October–November 1980, coincided with the centenary of Ned Kelly's death. The complete miniseries has been released on DVD region code, region 4 DVD in Australia by Umbrella Entertainment. Cast * John Jarratt – Ned Kelly * Steve Bisley – Joe Byrne * Elaine Cusick – Mrs. Kelly * Lewis Fitz-Gerald – Tom Lloyd (bushranger), Tom Lloyd * John Ley – Dan Kelly (bushranger), Dan Kelly * Ric Herbert – Steve Hart * Peter Hehir – Aaron Sherritt * Debra Lawrance – Maggie Kelly * Sigrid Thornton – Kate Kelly (outlaw), Kate Kelly * Tim Eliott – Steele References External links ''The Last Outlaw'' at Iron Outlaw * 1980s Australian television miniseries 1980s Western (genre) tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ovens & King Football League
The Ovens & King Football Netball League is a minor country Australian rules football league based in North-Eastern Victoria in the vicinity of Wangaratta and more recently Benalla. History The ''Ovens & King Football League'' was formed on the 13th of June 1903, after a handful of men met at The Bulls Head Hotel in Wangaratta to consider forming a football competition. One week later, the first matches of the Ovens & King Football Association were played. The competition changed its name to the Ovens and King Football League after the 1928 season. Today, more than 100 years later, teams from Benalla, Bright, Greta, King Valley, Milawa, Moyhu, North Wangaratta, Tarrawingee and Whorouly participate in seniors, reserves and five netball grades. Located in the rich Ovens Valley and King Valley of northeast Victoria, the league has produced a number of elite football who have gone on to play in the AFL, including the cousins Nigel (Brisbane Lions) and Matthew Lappin (St Kilda/Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Rules Football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the oval ball between the central goal posts (worth six points), or between a central and outer post (worth one point, otherwise known as a "behind"). During general play, players may position themselves anywhere on the field and use any part of their bodies to move the ball. The primary methods are kicking, handballing and running with the ball. There are rules on how the ball can be handled; for example, players running with the ball must intermittently bounce or touch it on the ground. Throwing the ball is not allowed, and players must not get caught holding the ball. A distinctive feature of the game is the mark, where players anywhere on the field who catch the ball from a kick (with specific conditions) are awarded unimped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hume Highway
Hume Highway, inclusive of the sections now known as Hume Freeway and Hume Motorway, is one of Australia's major inter-city national highways, running for between Melbourne in the southwest and Sydney in the northeast. Upgrading of the route from Sydney's outskirts to Melbourne's outskirts to dual carriageway was completed on 7 August 2013. From north to south, the road is called Hume Highway in metropolitan Sydney, Hume Motorway between the Cutler Interchange and Berrima, Hume Highway elsewhere in New South Wales and Hume Freeway in Victoria. It is part of the Auslink National Network and is a vital link for road freight to transport goods to and from the two cities as well as serving Albury-Wodonga and Canberra. Route At its Sydney end, Hume Highway begins at Parramatta Road, in Ashfield. This route is numbered as A22. The first of the highway was known as Liverpool Road until August 1928, when it was renamed as part of Hume Highway, as part of the creation of the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenrowan Railway Station
Glenrowan is a closed station located in the town of Glenrowan, on the North East line in Victoria, Australia.Glenrowan Vicsig The station is located at the highest point of the line north of Seymour, with grades of 1 in 75 in both directions. In June 1880, the station was the site of what became the last stand of and his gang, with a monument located at the station today. History The station site was initially a ballast siding, but there were no plans to b ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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