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Noorat, Victoria
Noorat is a small township in southwestern Victoria, Australia. Noorat is located approximately 211 km west of Melbourne. The township is located at the base of Mount Noorat, a dormant volcano, which is considered to have Australia's largest dry crater. At the 2006 census, Noorat had a population of 252. By 2011, according to the census, the population had dropped to 167, although this drop in numbers is a bit deceptive as the town boundary was changed in between the 2006 and 2011 census. Noorat derives its name from Mount Noorat, a dormant volcano named by explorer Major Thomas Mitchell after a local Indigenous elder, Ngoora. Europeans first settled the Noorat area in early 1839 when MacKillop and Smith established a run called Strathdownie – which was renamed Glenormiston by Niel Black, a Gaelic-speaking Scotsman from Cowall in Argyll who purchased the property in 1840. Prior to European settlement, the area near Mount Noorat was a traditional meeting site where Indig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Polwarth
The electoral district of Polwarth is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is located in south-west rural Victoria, west of Geelong, and covers the Colac and Corangamite local government areas (LGA), parts of the Moyne, Golden Plains and Surf Coast LGAs, and slivers of the Ararat and Greater Geelong LGAs, running along the Great Ocean Road taking in Anglesea, Cape Otway, Peterborough, Aireys Inlet, Lorne, Wye River, Apollo Bay and Port Campbell, covering the inland towns of Winchelsea, Colac, Camperdown and Terang along the Princes Highway, and Inverleigh, Cressy, Lismore and Mortlake on the Hamilton Highway, and finally, includes the Otway Ranges and Lake Corangamite. The seat has existed since 1889 and has always been held by conservative parties. The Liberal Party has held the seat continuously since 1970, although the Nationals have provided strong challenges on occasions, such as at the 1999 election when election night figures sugg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girai Wurrung
The Girai wurrung, also spelt Kirrae Wuurong and Kirrae Whurrung, are an Aboriginal Australian people who traditionally occupied the territory between Mount Emu Creek and the Hopkins River up to Mount Hamilton, and the Western Otways from the Gellibrand River to the Hopkins River. The historian Ian D. Clark has reclassified much of the material regarding them in Norman Tindale's compendium under the Djargurd Wurrung, a term reflecting the assumed pre-eminence of one of their clans, the Jacoort/Djargurd. Language The Giray language (''Girai wurrung'' meaning literally "blood lip language") spoke a dialect of Dhauwurd Wurrung language ("the Warrnambool language"), which belongs to the Kulinic branch of the Pama-Nyungan language family. James Dawson and his daughter Isabella took down extensive vocabulary lists of it and related dialects. A dictionary of the language was compiled in the 1990s. Country The Girai lands comprised of territory from Warrnambool and Hopkins River ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Towns In Victoria (state)
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] |
Warrnambool & District Football League
Warrnambool District Football League is an Australian rules football competition based in the region of rural of Warrnambool Warrnambool ( Maar: ''Peetoop'' or ''Wheringkernitch'' or ''Warrnambool'') is a city on the south-western coast of Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 census, Warrnambool had a population of 35,743. Situated on the Princes Highway, Warrnambool (A .... It is an eleven team competition starting in April and finishing in September. The league was founded in 1946.http://aflnational.com/vic/country/warrnambool/ Clubs Current Former Founding *East Stars (now known as East Warrnambool) *West End (merged with Allansford in 1971) *South Warrnambool Juniors (now known as South Rovers) *Merrivale *Russell's Creek Premiers *1946 Russell Creek 9 6 60 def South Juniors 8 8 56 *1947 Russell Creek 7 12 54 def West End 6 8 44 *1948 West End 8 16 64 def South Rovers 6 12 48 *1949 West End 10 4 64 def East Stars 4 12 36 *1950 West End 10 12 72 def Merrivale 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South West Institute Of TAFE
South West Institute of TAFE is the Technical and Further Education (TAFE) Institute located in the south west of the Australian state of Victoria. South West TAFE’s campuses are located in Warrnambool, Hamilton, Portland and Colac, with training facilities also located at Glenormiston and Sherwood Park (Deakin Warrnambool). History Technical education in Warrnambool had its roots in a Mechanics Institute, established in 1853. A technical school operated from the Mechanics Institute until larger premises were sought from 1908. Warrnambool Technical School operated on the current campus from 1913, operating within the state education system. It became known as the Warrnambool Technical College in 1958, The tertiary component of the College became the Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education (WIAE) was a college of advanced education in Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia. It was created in July 1969 after the tertiary section o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercy Regional College
Mercy Regional College is a Catholic, co-educational, secondary college in Camperdown, Victoria, Australia. It currently serves students from years 7 to 12 located across its two campuses, McAuley Campus and O'Keeffe Campus. McAuley campus is the main campus located in Camperdown, Victoria and O'Keffe Campus being located in Noorat, Victoria. Mercy Regional College has been educating since 1973 and serves the parishes of Camperdown, Mortlake, Terang Terang is a town in the Western District of Victoria, Australia. The town is in the Shire of Corangamite and on the Princes Highway south west of the state's capital, Melbourne. At the , Terang had a population of 1,824. At the 2001 census, ... and Timboon. The school consists of a junior school (years 7 and 8), middle school (years 9 and 10) and a senior school (years 11 and 12). The senior school offers both VCE and VCAL and in year 11, several students participate in studying one Unit 3/4 VCE subject. Catholic seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Presbyterian Church Of Australia
The Presbyterian Church of Australia (PCA) is the largest Presbyterian denomination in Australia. (The larger Uniting Church in Australia incorporated about two-thirds of the PCA in 1977.) History Beginnings When captain James Cook landed in Australia in 1776 he was sure to have had some Presbyterians in his crew. John Hunter the captain of HMS ''Sirius'' was a former Church of Scotland minister. Later Presbyterian Christianity came to Australia with the arrival of members from a number of Presbyterian denominations in Great Britain at the end of the 18th century. The Presbyterian missionaries played an important role to spread the faith in Australia. Since then Presbyterianism grew to the fourth largest Christian faith in the country. The Presbyterian Church of Australia was formed when Presbyterian churches from various Australian states federated in 1901. The churches that formed the Presbyterian Church of Australia were the Presbyterian Churches of New South Wales, V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Marshall (Australian Author)
Alan Marshall , (2 May 1902 – 21 January 1984) was an Australian writer, story teller, humanist and social documenter. He received the Australian Literature Society Short Story Award three times, the first in 1933. His best known book, ''I Can Jump Puddles'' (1955) is the first of a three-part autobiography. The other two volumes are ''This is the Grass'' (1962) and ''In Mine Own Heart'' (1963). Life and work Marshall was born in Noorat, Victoria. At six years old he contracted polio, which left him with a physical disability that grew worse as he grew older. From an early age, he resolved to be a writer, and in ''I Can Jump Puddles'' he demonstrated an almost total recall of his childhood in Noorat. The characters and places of his book are thinly disguised from real life: ''Mount Turalla'' is Mount Noorat, ''Lake Turalla'' is Lake Keilambete, the ''Curruthers'' are the ''Blacks'', Mrs. Conlon is Mary Conlon of Dixie, Terang, and his best friend, ''Joe'' from the books, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niel Black
Niel may refer to: * Niel, Belgium, town and municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp **Niel Jaarmarkt Cyclo-cross, cyclo-cross race held in Niel, Belgium, and part of the Cyclo-cross Gazet van Antwerpen *Prix Niel, Group 2 flat horse race in France *Antoniel dos Santos, Brazilian footballer known as Niel *Niel (singer), South Korean member of boy group Teen Top People with the surname *Adolphe Niel (1802–1869), French Army general and statesman, also Marshal of France *C. B. van Niel (1897–1985), Dutch-American microbiologist *Herms Niel (1888–1954), German composer *Marthe Niel (1878–1928), French aviator *Xavier Niel (born 1967), French entrepreneur and businessman See also *Niall *Neil *Niels (other) Niels Niels is a male given name, equivalent to Nicholas, which is common in Denmark, Belgium, Norway (formerly) and the Netherlands. The Norwegian and Swedish variant is Nils. The name is a developed short form of Nicholas or Greek Nicolaos after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Emu Creek
The Mount Emu Creek, (Aboriginal Australian:''Tarnpirr'') a perennial creek of the Glenelg Hopkins catchment, is located in the Western District of Victoria, Australia. Course and features The Mount Emu Creek is a long and small meandering waterway. It is the longest creek in Victoria. The creek rises near and flows generally south by southwest, joined by six tributaries, before reaching its confluence with the Hopkins River, northeast of Warrnambool. The river descends over its course. Mount Emu Creek is the major waterway within the Hopkins basin. The main drainage area is from numerous small tributaries and gullies to the east and west of the waterway, including Darlington Creek. The main tributary of Mount Emu Creek is Trawalla Creek, that drains the area of highest rainfall within the sub-catchment. Mount Emu Creek has a length of approximately through this sub-catchment, and passes through the township of . The waterway starts as a series of creeks and waterwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murdering Gully Massacre
Murdering Gully, formerly known as Puuroyup to the Djargurd Wurrung people, is the site of an 1839 massacre of 35–40 people of the ''Tarnbeere Gundidj'' clan of the Djargurd Wurrung in the Camperdown district of Victoria, Australia. It is a gully on Mount Emu Creek, where a small stream adjoins from Station.Ian D. Clark, pp103-118, ''Scars on the Landscape. A Register of Massacre sites in Western Victoria 1803–1859'', Aboriginal Studies Press, 1995 Of particular note for this massacre is the extent of oral history and first hand accounts of the incident and detail in settler diaries, records of Wesleyan missionaries, and Aboriginal Protectorate records. Following the massacre there was popular disapproval and censure of the leading perpetrator, Frederick Taylor, so that Taylor's River was renamed Mount Emu Creek. The massacre effectively destroyed the Tarnbeere Gundidj clan. Cause The massacre was undertaken by Frederick Taylor and others in retaliation for some sheep be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
