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Winchelsea, Victoria
Winchelsea is a town in Victoria, Australia. The town is located in the Surf Coast Shire local government area, the suburb or locality of Winchelsea is predominantly within Surf Coast Shire with a small section within the Colac Otway Shire. Winchelsea is located on the Barwon River 115 km south-west of Melbourne and close to Geelong (37 km north-east). History The first Europeans to reside in the area were squatters (Lomas's) who established grazing runs there c. 1837. Thomas Austin migrated from Tasmania and occupied the present day site of Winchelsea in 1837. The area was then called Austin's Ford. Austin built up his estate of Barwon Park to , including a mansion which still stands today. The town developed around the Barwon Inn, established in 1842 by Prosper Nicholas Trebeck and Charles Bea The Post Office opened as Barwon on 1 July 1848 and was renamed Winchelsea in 1854. The town was the administrative centre of the Shire of Winchelsea, which was procl ...
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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 ...
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Tasmania
Tasmania (; palawa kani: ''Lutruwita'') is an island States and territories of Australia, state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The state encompasses the main island of Tasmania, the List of islands by area#Islands, 26th-largest island in the world, and the List of islands of Tasmania, surrounding 1000 islands. It is Australia's smallest and least populous state, with 573,479 residents . The List of Australian capital cities, state capital and largest city is Hobart, with around 40% of the population living in the Greater Hobart area. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017. Tasmania is the most decentralised state in Australia, with the lowest proportion of its residents living within its capital city. Tasmania's main island was first inhabited by Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal peoples, who today generally identify as Palawa or Pakana. It is believed that Abori ...
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Ingleby Homestead
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Globe Theatre, Winchelsea
A globe is a spherical model of Earth, of some other celestial body, or of the celestial sphere. Globes serve purposes similar to maps, but, unlike maps, they do not distort the surface that they portray except to scale it down. A model globe of Earth is called a terrestrial globe. A model globe of the celestial sphere is called a ''celestial globe''. A globe shows details of its subject. A terrestrial globe shows landmasses and water bodies. It might show nations and major cities and the network of latitude and longitude lines. Some have raised relief to show mountains and other large landforms. A celestial globe shows notable stars, and may also show positions of other prominent astronomical objects. Typically, it will also divide the celestial sphere into constellations. The word ''globe'' comes from the Latin word ''globus'', meaning "sphere". Globes have a long history. The first known mention of a globe is from Strabo, describing the Globe of Crates from about 150 B ...
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Eastern Reserve Memorial Grandstand And Gates
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Barwon River Bridge, Winchelsea
Barwon may refer to: * Barwon, a horse which won the 1862 Victoria Derby * Electoral district of Barwon, in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Australia * HM Prison Barwon, a maximum security prison in Lara, Victoria, Australia * HMAS ''Barwon'' (K406), a Royal Australian Navy River class frigate See also * Barwon River (other) * Barwon Heads, Victoria Barwon Heads (previously known as Point Flinders) is a town on the Bellarine Peninsula, near Geelong, Victoria, Australia. It is situated on the west bank of the mouth of the Barwon River below Lake Connewarre, and is bounded to the west by fa ...
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Heritage Victoria
Heritage Victoria is a branch of the Victorian Department of Transport and Planning. It is the regulator responsible for administering the Heritage Act 2017. The Heritage Act provides for the protection and conservation of the cultural heritage of Victoria and establishes the Victorian Heritage Register and Heritage Inventory. The Register is a list of places and objects which are of significance to the State of Victoria. The Inventory is a list of known historical archaeological sites. Both statutory lists can be searched via the Victorian Heritage Database. Functions Heritage Victoria is responsible for the most important historic heritage sites in Victoria. This includes state significant heritage places, historical archaeological sites, and shipwrecks. Heritage Victoria's role includes: *making recommendations to the Heritage Council of Victoria about what to include in the Victorian Heritage Register *making decisions about changes to places in the Victorian Heritage Reg ...
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Victorian Heritage Register
The Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) lists places deemed to be of cultural heritage significance to the State of Victoria, Australia. It has statutory weight under the Heritage Act 2017. The Minister for Planning is the responsible Minister. Heritage Victoria was established as the State Government listing and permit authority in 1995, replacing the original authority, the Historic Buildings Preservation Council, established in 1974. Listing on the Victorian Heritage Register is separate from listing by a local Council or Shire, known as a Heritage Overlay. Heritage Victoria is currently part of the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning of the Government of Victoria, Australia. Heritage Victoria reports to the Heritage Council who approve recommendations to the Register and hear appeals when a registration is disputed. The council also hears appeals by an owner to a permit issued by Heritage Victoria (third parties cannot appeal). As of 2021, there are over 2,40 ...
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Barwon Park
Barwon may refer to: * Barwon, a horse which won the 1862 Victoria Derby * Electoral district of Barwon, in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Australia * HM Prison Barwon, a maximum security prison in Lara, Victoria, Australia * HMAS ''Barwon'' (K406), a Royal Australian Navy River class frigate See also * Barwon River (other) * Barwon Heads, Victoria Barwon Heads (previously known as Point Flinders) is a town on the Bellarine Peninsula, near Geelong, Victoria, Australia. It is situated on the west bank of the mouth of the Barwon River below Lake Connewarre, and is bounded to the west by fa ...
, coastal township, Australia {{disambiguation ...
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Warrnambool V/Line Rail Service
The Warrnambool line is a long-distance regional rail service in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. Operated by V/Line, it is the state's fourth longest railway line at . The line runs from Southern Cross railway station, Southern Cross station in central Melbourne to Warrnambool railway station, Warrnambool station in the south-west, serving 21 stations via Wyndham Vale railway station, Wyndham Vale, Geelong railway station, Geelong, Waurn Ponds railway station, Waurn Ponds, and Colac railway station, Colac. The line has five return services each weekday and four return services on weekends. Trains on the Warrnambool service run with three-car V/Line VLocity, Vlocity units. The service was taken over by V/Line after the closure of West Coast Railway (Victoria), West Coast Railway in 2004. Warrnambool railway line, The track that the service operates on was originally built to connect Melbourne with the rural towns of Geelong, Colac, Victoria, Colac, Warrnambool, and Po ...
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V/Line
V/Line is a statutory authority that operates Regional rail, regional passenger rail and Intercity bus service, coach services in the Australian state of Victoria (state), Victoria. It provides passenger train services on five Commuter rail, commuter routes and eight Inter-city rail, long-distance services from its major hub at Southern Cross railway station in Melbourne. It also provides coach bus services across Victoria and into New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South Australia. In addition, V/Line is responsible for the maintenance of the Victorian freight and passenger rail network outside of the areas managed by Metro Trains Melbourne and the Australian Rail Track Corporation. The V/Line brand was introduced after the split-up of Victorian Railways, VicRail in 1983, and has been used by all successive operators of the state's regional public transport network. Until 1999, when its freight operations were privatised, V/Line Freight was also a governmen ...
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Winchelsea Railway Station, Victoria
Winchelsea railway station is located on the Warrnambool line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the town of the same name, and opened on 25 November 1876.Winchelsea
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The station opened as the temporary terminus of the line from . On 13 March 1877, the line was extended to .
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