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Boigbeat, Victoria
Boigbeat is a locality situated in The Mallee region. It is situated about 9 kilometres south east of Sea Lake and 11 kilometres north west of Berriwillock. The place name ''Boigbeat'' is derived from the traditional Aboriginal word for the location which was ''Boigbeal'' with the word ''beal'' meaning "redgum" and referring to the only clump of gum tree Gum tree is the common name of several trees and plants: *Eucalypteae, particularly: **''Eucalyptus'', which includes the majority of species of gum trees **''Corymbia'', which includes the ghost gums and spotted gums **''Angophora'', which inclu ...s for many miles. Boigbeat Post Office opened on 1 July 1898 and closed in 1970. Notes and references [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne
Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victoria (state), Victoria, and the second most-populous city in Australia, after Sydney. The city's name generally refers to a metropolitan area also known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of Local Government Areas of Victoria#Municipalities of Greater Melbourne, 31 local government areas. The name is also used to specifically refer to the local government area named City of Melbourne, whose area is centred on the Melbourne central business district and some immediate surrounds. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong Ranges, and the Macedon R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swan Hill, Victoria
Swan Hill is a List of cities in Australia, city in the northwest of Victoria, Australia on the Murray Valley Highway and on the south bank of the Murray River, downstream from the junction of the Loddon River, Victoria, Loddon River. At the , Swan Hill had a population of 11,508. History The area was given its current name by explorer Thomas Mitchell (explorer), Thomas Mitchell, while camping beside a hill on 21 June 1836. The European community grew up around a punt (boat), punt river crossing, which was established as early as 1846. This crossing serviced the growing agricultural area, and was the only river crossing for 100 km. The Post Office opened here on 1 February 1849. In 1853 Francis Cadell (explorer), Francis Cadell navigated the Murray river from its mouth in South Australia to Swan Hill in his paddle steamer, Lady Augusta. He arrived on 17 September 1853, narrowly beating William Randell of Mannum, who arrived 4 hours later in the PS Mary Ann. This demons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berriwillock, Victoria
Berriwillock is a town in the Mallee region in the north-west of the Australian state of Victoria. Berriwillock is north-west of the state capital, Melbourne. Nearby towns include Boigbeat (about north west and Culgoa south east. Berriwillock is due west of the Murray River and is a vibrant grain producing community. Transport Berriwillock is adjacent to the Calder Highway, northwest of Melbourne. It was formerly served by the Berriwillock railway station on the Kulwin railway line. The line has not carried passenger services since 1977, but is still available for freight (bulk grain), and there are bulk grain silos at the station. Berriwillock Post Office opened on 16 April 1894 shortly after the arrival of the railway. Berriwillock wheat scheme Berriwillock is the home of a charitable scheme where the local farmers grow wheat for charity. In drought years, it may not make a profit to donate, but most years the scheme provides grants to a range of charitable causes. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Lake, Victoria
Sea Lake is a town in the The Mallee, Mallee district of north-west Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia and is situated on the southern shores of Lake Tyrrell. The town is located on the Calder Highway, north-west of Melbourne, and west of Swan Hill. Sea Lake is in the heart of Australia's Wheatbelt (Australia), wheat belt, and is the main township for a number of wheat farms in the region. At the , Sea Lake had a population of 619. History The site upon which Sea Lake is situated was first visited by colonists in 1838. Sea Lake may have been given its name by an early settler, Edward John Eyre, Edward Eyre, from the Port Phillip area. Purportedly, the sea-like appearance of Lake Tyrrell inspired Eyre. An alternative version of the naming of Sea Lake comes from a surveyors report of the time when planning the township (which lies to the south of Lake Tyrrell). It is purported that a surveyor mistook a mark on hand drawings "see lake" which had been used by the author ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Springfield, Victoria (Shire Of Buloke)
Springfield is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located approximately 53 km from Swan Hill, Victoria Swan Hill is a List of cities in Australia, city in the northwest of Victoria, Australia on the Murray Valley Highway and on the south bank of the Murray River, downstream from the junction of the Loddon River, Victoria, Loddon River. At the , .... Springfield Post Office opened in 1902, was renamed Springfield Station around 1907 (there was another Springfield Post Office near Woodend) and closed in 1930. References Towns in Victoria (state) {{VictoriaAU-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banyan, Victoria
Banyan is a locality in the Shire of Buloke The Shire of Buloke is a Local Government Areas of Victoria, local government area in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, located in the western part of the state. It covers an area of and, in August 2021, had a population of 6,201. It i ..., Victoria, Australia. A post office operated there from 1 October 1912 until 14 May 1946. References {{authority control Shire of Buloke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mallee
The Mallee is a sub-region of Loddon Mallee covering the most north-westerly part of Victoria, Australia and is bounded by the South Australian and New South Wales borders. Definitions of the south-eastern boundary vary, however, all are based on the historic Victorian distribution of mallee eucalypts. These trees dominate the surviving native vegetation through most of Mallee, (except for swamps and areas along waterways). Its biggest settlements are Mildura and Swan Hill. At the 2011 census, the four local government areas (LGAs) that are usually thought to define the district had a combined population of 88,178. The area of these same four LGAs is . An area of South Australia immediately to the west of the Victorian Mallee region, also once covered with mallee scrub, is commonly referred to as the "Murray Mallee" or "the Mallee". Geography and climate The Mallee is, for all practical purposes, completely flat and very low-lying: in fact, for long geological peri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Australians are people with familial heritage from, or recognised membership of, the various ethnic groups living within the territory of contemporary Australia prior to History of Australia (1788–1850), British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups, which include many ethnic groups: the Aboriginal Australians of the mainland and many islands, including Aboriginal Tasmanians, Tasmania, and the Torres Strait Islanders of the seas between Queensland and Papua New Guinea, located in Melanesia. 812,728 people Aboriginality, self-identified as being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin in the 2021 Australian Census, representing 3.2% of the total population of Australia. Of these Indigenous Australians, 91.4% identified as Aboriginal, 4.2% identified as Torres Strait Islander, and 4.4% identified with both groups. The term Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples or the person's specific cultural group, is often preferred, though the term ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gum Tree
Gum tree is the common name of several trees and plants: *Eucalypteae, particularly: **''Eucalyptus'', which includes the majority of species of gum trees **''Corymbia'', which includes the ghost gums and spotted gums **''Angophora'', which includes ''Angophora costata'' Sydney red gum *''Nyssa sylvatica'', common names include blackgum, sour gum *''Liquidambar'', common names include sweetgum, star gum, gum, redgum *''Tristaniopsis laurina'', common names include water gum *''Sapium glandulosum ''Sapium glandulosum'' is a species of tree in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is native to the Neotropics from Mexico and the Caribbean south to Argentina, and it has been cultivated elsewhere. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Towns In Victoria (state)
This is a list of locality names and populated place names in the state of Victoria, Australia, outside the Melbourne metropolitan area. It is organised by region from the south-west of the state to the east and, for convenience, is sectioned by Local Government Area (LGA). Localities are bounded areas recorded on VICNAMES, although boundaries are the responsibility of each council. Many localities cross LGA boundaries, some being partly within three LGAs, but are listed here once under the LGA in which the major population centre or area occurs. The Registrar of Geographic Names, supported by Geographic Names Victoria, administers the naming or renaming of localities (as well as roads, and other features) in Victoria, and maintains the Register of Geographic Names, referred as the VICNAMES register, pursuant to the ''Geographic Place Names Act 1998''. The OGN has issued the mandatory ''Naming rules for places in Victoria, Statutory requirements for naming roads, features and l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
