Lemnos is a locality in the Goulburn Valley region of Victoria, Australia, on the outskirts of the regional city of

Shepparton Shepparton () (Yorta Yorta language, Yortayorta: ''Kanny-goopna'') is a city located on the floodplain of the Goulburn River (Victoria), Goulburn River in northern Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, approximately north-northeast of Mel ...

. At the 2006 census, Lemnos had a population of 369, which had dropped to 246 at the 2016 census. The locality was established in 1927 as a

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area after the

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. It was named by Ernest Hill, a returned soldier and soldier settler, after the Greek island of

Lemnos Lemnos ( ) or Limnos ( ) is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Lemnos (regional unit), Lemnos regional unit, which is part of the North Aegean modern regions of Greece ...

, which was an operational base for the

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campaign and to which wounded Australian soldiers were evacuated. Lemnos has a state school, general store with a post office agency, and a large farming community. Lemnos is also home to a

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factory. In 2020, Lemnos was the site of Australia's only surgical mask factory, operated by Med-Con Pty Ltd.

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Towns in Victoria (state) City of Greater Shepparton Australian soldier settlements 1927 establishments in Australia {{Hume-geo-stub