Beulah is a town in the southern
Mallee region of
Victoria
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* Victoria (state), a state of Australia
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* Victoria, Seychelles, the capi ...
,
Australia
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. The town is in the
Shire of Yarriambiack
The Shire of Yarriambiack is a Local government areas of Victoria, local government area of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, located in the north-western part of the state. It covers an area of and at the , had a population of 6,556. I ...
local government area
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, 395 kilometres north-west of the state capital,
Melbourne
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. At the
2016 census, Beulah had a population of 329.
History
The town's name is taken from the
Book of Isaiah
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, 62:4. In some English translations, the word is given as "married" or "inhabited".
Beulah was established on land that was once part of
Brim station
Station may refer to:
Agriculture
* Station (Australian agriculture), a large Australian landholding used for livestock production
* Station (New Zealand agriculture), a large New Zealand farm used for grazing by sheep and cattle
** Cattle statio ...
. Closer settlement began in the 1880s and the town site was proclaimed in 1891. A post office opened on May 6, 1891, and the railway from
Warracknabeal
Warracknabeal ( ) is a town in the Australian state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, located in the Wheatbelt (Australia), Victorian wheatbelt. Situated on the banks of the Yarriambiack Creek, 330 km northwest of Melbourne, it is the bus ...
opened on 5 January 1893.
The line to
Hopetoun opened on 6 March 1894.
The town claims to be the closest to the
rabbit-proof fence
The State Barrier Fence of Western Australia, formerly known as the Rabbit-Proof Fence, the State Vermin Fence, and the Emu Fence, is a pest-exclusion fence constructed between 1901 and 1907 to keep rabbits, and other agricultural pests from ...
, established in the first decade of the 20th century to prevent the incursion of rabbit plagues.
Beulah was the location for the fictional town Kiewarra in the 2019 film ''
The Dry'', starring
Eric Bana
Eric Martin Andrew Banadinović (born 9 August 1968), known professionally as Eric Bana (), is an Australian actor. He began his career in the sketch-comedy series '' Full Frontal'' before gaining notice in the comedy drama '' The Castle'' (199 ...
.
Climate
References
External links
Official town websiteYarriambiack Shire Council
- Official council site
Towns in Victoria (state)
Wimmera
Mallee (Victoria)
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