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Allans Flat
Allans Flat is a locality in Victoria, Australia. It is located along Osbornes Flat Road, north-east of Yackandandah. The areas around Allans Flat were mined for gold between the 1850s and 1904 though without sufficient population for a Post Office until 26 October 1876. History Allans Flat was surveyed and proclaimed in 1905. The Post Office closed in 1975. Sport & Recreation In 1897, Osborne's Flat Football Club won the Weiss Football Trophy, in a competition between Osborne's Flat, Gundowring and Yackandandah. The Allans Flat Football Club appears to of first been established in 1890. The club was intermittently active over the next 15 years, then competed in the Murphy's Albion Hotel (Yackandandah) Football Association in 1906. The club won a premiership in 1923 - *Allans Flat & District Football Association **1923 - Allan's Flats: 3.5 - 23 d Dederang: 0.6 - 6 Allan's Flat competed in the Kiewa Football Association from 1924 to 1926 and were runners up in 1925. *1925 - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Benambra
The electoral district of Benambra is one of the electoral districts of Victoria, Australia, for the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers an area of in north-eastern Victoria (Australia), Victoria. The largest settlement is the city of Wodonga, Victoria, Wodonga. Benambra also includes the towns of Baranduda, Victoria, Baranduda, Barnawartha, Victoria, Barnawartha, Beechworth, Victoria, Beechworth, Chiltern, Victoria, Chiltern, Corryong, Victoria, Corryong, Eskdale, Victoria, Eskdale, Kiewa, Victoria, Kiewa, Mitta Mitta, Victoria, Mitta Mitta, Mount Beauty, Victoria, Mount Beauty, Rutherglen, Victoria, Rutherglen, Tallangatta, Victoria, Tallangatta, Tangambalanga, Victoria, Tangambalanga, Tawonga, Victoria, Tawonga, Wahgunyah, Victoria, Wahgunyah, and Yackandandah, Victoria, Yackandandah. It lies in the Northern Victoria Region of the upper house, the Victorian Legislative Council, Legislative Council. The district of Benambra was created by the ''Electoral Act Amendment A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Indi
The Division of Indi ( ) is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division in the states and territories of Australia, state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria. The division is located in the north-east of the state, adjoining the border with New South Wales. The largest settlements in the division are the regional cities of Wodonga, Wangaratta, and Benalla. Other towns in the electorate include Rutherglen, Victoria, Rutherglen, Mansfield, Victoria, Mansfield, Beechworth, Myrtleford, Bright, Victoria, Bright, Alexandra, Victoria, Alexandra, Tallangatta, Corryong and a number of other small villages (including the ski resort of Falls Creek, Victoria, Falls Creek). While Indi is one of the largest electorates in Victoria, much of it is located within the largely uninhabited Australian Alps. While Wodonga serves as a regional hub for much of the more heavily populated northern part of the electorate, the southern part is closer to Melbourne th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria, commonly abbreviated as Vic, is a States and territories of Australia, state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state (after Tasmania), with a land area of ; the second-most-populated state (after New South Wales), with a population of over 7 million; and the most densely populated state in Australia (30.6 per km2). Victoria's economy is the List of Australian states and territories by gross state product, second-largest among Australian states and is highly diversified, with service sectors predominating. Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate climate, temperate coa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller islands. It has a total area of , making it the list of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania. Australia is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent. It is a megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and Climate of Australia, climates including deserts of Australia, deserts in the Outback, interior and forests of Australia, tropical rainforests along the Eastern states of Australia, coast. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south-east Asia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last glacial period. By the time of British settlement, Aboriginal Australians spoke 250 distinct l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yackandandah, Victoria
Yackandandah is a town in northeast Victoria, Australia. It is near the regional cities of Wodonga, Victoria, Wodonga and Albury, New South Wales, Albury, and is close to the tourist town of Beechworth, Victoria, Beechworth. At the , Yackandandah had a population of 2,008. History The indigenous people of the area prior to white colonisation were the Dhudhuroa people, in Dhudhuroa language , whose language the toponym ''Yackandandah'' is said to have meant “one boulder on top of another at the junction of two creeks”, namely the Yackandandah and Commissioner creeks' intersection.'A Brief History of Yackandandah,' Indigo Shire, Indigo Shire Council The area was first opened to white settlement when Irish-born James Osborne took up land at Osborne's Flat in 1837. On the dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mordialloc Football Club Colours
Mordialloc ( ) is a beachside suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 24 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Kingston local government area. Mordialloc recorded a population of 8,886 at the . History Originally "Moody Yallock", the name is derived from the term ''moordy yallock'' which originated from the Aboriginal language Boonwurrung, in which "yallock" means "creek" or "water", and is listed in some sources as meaning ''muddy creek'', and in others as "little sea." from c.1850 was the site of the Mordialloc Aboriginal Reserve. Mordialloc Post Office opened on 17 October 1863. In 1995 it was renamed Braeside Business Centre, and a new Mordialloc office opened near the railway station. In the 1970s, a green ban imposed by the Builders Labourers Federation stopped a Coles Supermarket being built that would result in the eviction and destruction of several homes. The namesaked Mordialloc Creek is arguably the most signif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yackandandah & District Football League
The Yackandandah & District Football Association was a minor rural Australian Rules Football competition in North Eastern Victoria. The competition ran from 1928 to 1932, 1940, then from 1946 to 1953, when it folded in early 1954. History There was a Yackandandah Football Association established in 1912 amongst the following clubs - Dederang, Yackandandah and Tawonga - with Dederang taking out the premiership. in 1928, the Yackandandah & District Football Association was formed and Mr. Fred Malcomson, from the Star Hotel, Yackandandah, decided to donate a trophy to the premiers. In 1933, the Yackandandah & DFA disbanded and the Tallangatta & District Football Association was formed from the following clubs - Bethanga, Granya, Kiewa Valley, Mitta Valley and Tallangatta. The competition re-formed in 1940 for one year, before going into recess due to World War Two. It then re-formed in 1946 and was active up until April, 1954 when it went into recess. In 1947, the Y&DFA had n ... [...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] |
