Coongulla is a town in

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, located on Ryans Road, on the shores of Lake Glenmaggie in the

Shire of Wellington The Shire of Wellington is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the eastern part of the state. It covers an area of and in June 2018 had a population of 44,019. It includes the towns of Heyfield, Rosedale, Maffra, Sale ...

. The postcode for Coongulla and the surrounding towns is 3860. At the

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, Coongulla and the surrounding area had a population of 183. Coongulla is 160 km from Melbourne. There are approx 337 separate houses in Coongulla. Of the people in Coongulla, 83.6% are Australian-born. Of the immigrants, most are from the

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. Median age of persons in the town 57. The Lake Glenmaggie Weir supplies irrigation water for all the farms in the area and also supplies drinking water to

Maffra Maffra is a town in Victoria, Australia, east of Melbourne. It is in the Shire of Wellington local government area and it is the second most populous city of the Shire. It relies mainly on dairy farming and other agriculture, and is the sit ...

, Coongulla, Glenmaggie and

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. Some of the most common activities for locals and holidayers are: night walks, swimming, bike riding, canoeing or kayaking, yachting, grass boarding on gravel, water sports, and motorbike riding. A Country Fire Authority brigade began services for the town and surrounds on 28 May 1972.

Climate

The average January maximum temperature is 26°Celsius and in July it is 14 °C. The average January minimum temperature is 13 °C and dropping to 4 °C in July The average annual rainfall is 594 mm over an average of 115 rainy days.

References

{{authority control Towns in Victoria (Australia) Towns in Central Gippsland Shire of Wellington