Tyrendarra () is a locality in south west Victoria, Australia. The locality is split between the Shire of Glenelg and the Shire of Moyne local government areas, with most being in the former. It is on the

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, south west of the state capital, Melbourne. The Tyrendarra township lies within a bend of Darlot Creek, before it enters the

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—which also flows through the locality. At the , Tyrendarra and the surrounding area had a population of 198. The area was settled in the 1870s and a Post Office opened around February 1879 and closed in 2000. Tyrendarra is well known for the Tyrendarra Pastoral and Agricultural show held each year at the Tyrendarra sports reserve. The Tyrendarra

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has, since 2017, been replaced with the Tyrendarra Beer Fest. The town has an

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team playing in the

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. Unusually for Australian towns, Tyrendarra has no hotel. The town does, however, contain two churches. The

Tyrendarra Indigenous Protected Area Budj Bim heritage areas includes several protected areas in Victoria, Australia, the largest two being Budj Bim National Heritage Landscape and the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape. Within the latter, there are three Indigenous Protected Areas: the ...

, which lies on the Tyrendarra lava flow from the extinct volcano

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lies between the Fitzroy River and Darlot Creek close to the township.

Traditional ownership

The formally recognised traditional owners for the area in which Tyrendarra sits are the Gunditjmara People who are represented by the Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation.

People from Tyrendarra

Noel Fulford Learmonth Noel Fulford Learmonth (pronounced LAIR'muth) (1880–1970) was an Australian writer, sheep farmer, naturalist, amateur historian and amateur ornithologist. For most of his life he lived in Portland, Victoria or nearby at Tyrendarra. With othe ...

, (1880–1970) writer * Noel's son Wing Commander

Charles Learmonth Charles Cuthbertson Learmonth DFC & Bar (2 May 1917 – 6 January 1944) was an officer in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) during World War II. He commanded No. 22 Squadron in combat during the New Guinea campaign, and subsequently took o ...

, (1917–1944) DFC and bar

References

* Learmonth, Noel F. (1970). ''Four Towns and a Survey.'' Hawthorn Press: Melbourne

External links

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