Lang Lang is a town in

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, 73 km south-east of Melbourne's

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, located within the Shires of Bass Coast, Cardinia and

South Gippsland South Gippsland, a region of Gippsland in Victoria, Australia, is a well-watered region consisting of low, rolling hills descending to the coast in the south and the Latrobe Valley in the north. Low granite hills continue into Wilsons Promon ...

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s. Lang Lang recorded a population of 2,556 at the 2021 census. The village is just off the

South Gippsland Highway The South Gippsland Highway is a partially divided highway in Victoria, Australia which connects the city of Melbourne with the South Gippsland region of Victoria, ending in the town of Sale. The highway begins at Lonsdale Street (Princes High ...

near its intersection with the Bass Highway, on the

Lang Lang River The Lang Lang River is a perennial river of the Western Port catchment, located in the West Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria. Location and features The Lang Lang River rises in the Strzelecki Ranges in the East Poowong vall ...

and borders the region of Dalmore, a large

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growing region. Lang Lang also caters to Beef, Dairy farming and Sand Mines.

Etymology

Lang Lang was formerly known as Carrington, after

Lord Carrington Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Baron Carington of Upton, (6 June 1919 – 9July 2018), was a British Conservative Party politician and hereditary peer who served as Defence Secretary from 1970 to 1974, Foreign Secret ...

. The origin of the name Lang Lang is debated. In the

Australian Aboriginal Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, such as Tasmania, Fraser Island, Hinchinbrook Island, the Tiwi Islands, and Groote Eylandt, but excluding the Torres Strait Islands ...

Woiwurrung language The Woiwurrung, also spelt Woi Wurrung, Woiwurrong, Woiworung, Wuywurung, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Woiwurrung language group, in the Kulin alliance. The Woiwurrung people's territory in Central Victoria extended from north ...

, the name ''Lang Lang'', also spelled ''Laang Laang'', meant "stones" or "stony". An alternate explanation is that the town is named in honour of an early settler in the region, called Lang.

Location and features

A Lang Lang post office opened on 20 May 1878. In 1891, after the arrival of the

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, it was renamed Lang Lang West and a new Lang Lang office was opened near the station. A post office known as Lang Lang East opened in 1885 but was replaced by

Nyora Nyora is a town in South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, approximately south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shires of Baw Baw, Cardinia and South Gippsland local government areas. Nyora recorded a populat ...

in 1890, again near the station.

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operated the Lang Lang Vehicle Proving Ground,Lang Lang Vehicle Proving Ground
Holden - Go Better a vehicle development, durability testing, safety test centre and exhaust emission facility, located on the South Gippsland Highway near Lang Lang. A rodeo has been held regularly at Lang Lang on Easter Monday since the 1940s. The town has an

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team competing in the

Ellinbank & District Football League The Ellinbank and District Football League is an Australian rules football and Netball League, based in the West Gippsland region of Victoria for smaller towns and villages in the regions of Baw Baw, South Gippsland and Cardinia. There are 1 ...

as well as an netball team. Golfers play at the course of the Lang Lang Golf Club on the South Gippsland Highway, Nyora.

Population

In the 2016 Census, there were 1,585 people in Lang Lang. 84.8% of people were born in Australia and 92.9% of people spoke only English at home. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 38.2%, Anglican 20.4% and Catholic 18.6%.

Transport

Lang Lang was formerly situated along the

South Gippsland railway The South Gippsland Railway was a tourist railway located in South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. It controlled a section of the former South Gippsland railway line between Nyora and Leongatha, and operated services from Leongatha to Nyora, ...

corridor that operated to its terminus at Yarram in the early 1980s and Leongatha in the mid 1990s. A V/Line road coach service replaced the rail service to Leongatha on 24 July 1993, running between Melbourne and Yarram. However, since the closure of the South Gippsland rail line with the exception of the locally run tourist railway between Nyora and Leongatha by the Kennett Victorian government on 14 December 1994, the South and West Gippsland Transport Group represented by the local council are campaigning for the rail services to be reinstated beyond the current terminus at Cranbourne by the 2020s.Rail return an election issue
Sentinel Times17December 2013

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