Mount Cottrell is a town in
Victoria
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,
Australia
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, west of
Melbourne's Central Business District
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, located within the Cities of
Melton and
Wyndham local government area
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s. Mount Cottrell recorded a population of 496 at the
2021 census.
[
It is named after ]Anthony Cottrell
Anthony Cottrell (21 March 1806 – 4 May 1860) was a farmer and one of fifteen investors in the Port Phillip Association. The son of Ellen and William Cottrell, a farmer living in the South Esk County of Cornwall, Tasmania. He immigrated to T ...
, a member of the Port Phillip association who was allotted the land by the company in about 1835–36. The original "No.10" hut was located about 1.5 km north of the Mount Cottrell summit.
The town of Mount Cottrell consists of mainly privately owned open land. The town is named after the 200m high mountain it encompasses, Mount Cottrell, the most massive of the Werribee Plains The Werribee Plain is an expansive low-lying flat land located between the northwestern shore of Port Phillip Bay and the Grampians Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia, shared between Melbourne and Geelong. Named after the Werribee River
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volcanoes, a volcanic cone formed by the radial eruption of numerous lava tongues. The mountain was purchased by Melton Council in 2007 to preserve the significant geological and flora and fauna values on the site.
Mount Cottrell Post Office opened on 1 January 1866, closed in 1895, reopened in 1902 and closed again in 1958.
Mount Cottrell massacre
The Mount Cottrell massacre
The Mount Cottrell massacre involved the murder of an estimated 10 Wathaurong people near Mount Cottrell, Victoria, Mount Cottrell in the colony of Victoria in 1836, in retaliation for the killing of two European settlers.
Description
On 16 Jul ...
was a reprisal killing for squatter
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Charles Franks and his convict shepherd Thomas Flinders by Aboriginal people
Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original people ...
. Around 10 Wathaurong
The Wathaurong nation, also called the Wathaurung, Wadawurrung and Wadda Wurrung, are an Aboriginal Australian people living in the area near Melbourne, Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula in the state of Victoria. They are part of the Kulin all ...
people were murdered at Mt Cottrell by 17 settlers armed with musket
A musket is a muzzle-loaded long gun that appeared as a smoothbore weapon in the early 16th century, at first as a heavier variant of the arquebus, capable of penetrating plate armour. By the mid-16th century, this type of musket gradually d ...
s on 16 July 1836.
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Towns in Victoria (Australia)
City of Melton
City of Wyndham