Badger Creek is a suburb of
Healesville
Healesville is a town in Victoria, Australia, 64 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district, located within the Shire of Yarra Ranges local government area. Healesville recorded a population of 7,589 in the 2021 census.
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in
Victoria,
Australia
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, 53 km north-east from Melbourne's
central business district
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, located within the
Shire of Yarra Ranges
The Shire of Yarra Ranges, also known as Yarra Ranges Council, is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the outer eastern and northeastern suburbs of Melbourne extending into the Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges. It has ...
local government area
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. Badger Creek recorded a population of 1,610 at the .
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Badger Creek is near the Healesville Sanctuary and the former ]Aboriginal reserve
An Aboriginal reserve, also called simply reserve, was a government-sanctioned settlement for Aboriginal Australians, created under various state and federal legislation. Along with missions and other institutions, they were used from the 19th ...
, Coranderrk, now known as the Coranderrk Bushland.
History
The creek was possibly named after the wombats
Wombats are short-legged, muscular quadrupedal marsupials of the family Vombatidae that are native to Australia. Living species are about in length with small, stubby tails and weigh between . They are adaptable and habitat tolerant, and are ...
in the area which were often called ''badgers
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''. Other theories is that is it derived from the Woi Wurrung word badjurr, or that a horse named Badger, owned by one of the pioneering Ryrie brothers, became bogged in the creek
Badger Creek was surveyed as a township in 1894, but was not settled to any extent until some time later. The Coranderrk school opened in 1890, being replaced by the Badger Creek school in 1899.
See also
Coranderrk
References
External links
Australian Places - Badger Creek
Towns in Victoria (state)
Yarra Valley
Yarra Ranges Shire
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