For many weeks between 16 February and late March 1965, major
bushfires burnt across a wide landscape of
Gippsland in
Victoria, Australia, from
Lake Glenmaggie
Glenmaggie is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on the shores of Lake Glenmaggie, in the Shire of Wellington. At the 2016 census, Glenmaggie and the surrounding area had a population of 277.
Glenmaggie Post Office opened on 1 January 1872 ...
in the west to well beyond
Bruthen
Bruthen is a small town located alongside the Tambo River between Bairnsdale and Ensay on the Great Alpine Road in East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. At the 2016 census, Bruthen had a population of 814. Bruthen is east of Bairnsdale and eas ...
and
Tambo Crossing in the east.
Nearly one million acres of
State forest and pasture were burnt.
The
Forests Commission Victoria (FCV) and
Country Fire Authority (CFA) faced their gravest bushfire threat since
Black Friday in 1939.
There were many other bushfires across the state that summer, but the ones in Gippsland reached disastrous proportions, culminating in the declaration of a State of Emergency on 5 March when the Army and Air Force were called in to assist.
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Bushfires in Victoria (state)
Gippsland (region)
1965 disasters in Australia