Iraak is a locality in
Victoria
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* Victoria (state), a state of Australia
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,
Australia
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, located approximately 35 km south-east of
Mildura, Victoria
Mildura ( ) is a regional city in north-west Victoria, Australia. Located on the Victorian side of the Murray River, Mildura had a population of 34,565 at the 2021 census. When nearby Wentworth, Irymple, Nichols Point, Merbein and Red ...
.
Iraak and nearby localities
Nangiloc and
Colignan were established as
soldier settlement
Soldier settlement was the settlement of land throughout parts of Australia by returning discharged soldiers under soldier settlement schemes administered by state governments after World War I and World War II. The post-World War II settlement ...
farming areas after
World War I
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, road access to the area being from the west via Boonoonar on what is now the
Calder Highway
Calder Highway is a rural highway in Australia, linking Mildura and the Victoria/New South Wales border to Bendigo, in North Central Victoria. South of Bendigo, where the former highway has been upgraded to freeway-standard, Calder Freeway li ...
.
The Post Office opened on 22 September 1922 the same day as that of
Nangiloc, closing in 1960.
The
Karadoc Solar Farm opened in the locality of Iraak in late 2018.
See also
*
1956 Murray River flood
The 1956 Murray River flood involved the rising of waters in the Murray River and flooding of many towns in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. The flood was and still is considered the biggest flood in the recorded history of the Mu ...
References
Towns in Victoria (state)
Populated places on the Murray River
Mallee (Victoria)
Australian soldier settlements
1922 establishments in Australia
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