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Marble Gully - Mount Tambo Nature Conservation Reserve
Mount Tambo is a mountain located to the north-east of Omeo in Victoria, Australia. Its peak is 1,430 metres above sea level. It lies within the boundaries of the 6,050 hectare Marble Gully – Mount Tambo Nature Conservation Reserve. The 2,740 hectare Mount Tambo Reserve was listed on the Register of the National Estate in 1990. Rare plant species found in Marble Gully – Mount Tambo Nature Conservation Reserve include marble daisy bush, delicate New Holland-daisy, and limestone pomaderris. To the near north-east is Little Mount Tambo (1,227 metres). The headwaters from Deep Creek, which feeds in to the Tambo River, are on the south-east slopes. It marks the intersection of the boundaries of the counties of Benambra, Dargo and Tambo. While travelling with Georg Neumayer's expedition to Mount Kosciuszko in 1862, the painter Eugene von Guerard produced a sketch ''Mt Tambo & Omeo Swamps 10 Nov 62'' and later an oil painting ''Mount Tambo from the Omeo Station 1862''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benambra
Benambra is a town 28 kilometres (17 mi) north-east of Omeo and 430 kilometres (267 mi) east of the state capital Melbourne, in the Australian Alps of East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. Nearby towns include Swifts Creek, Ensay, and the major town of Bairnsdale. At the 2016 census, Benambra and the surrounding area had a population of 149. The Town Benambra town centre is at the intersection of Gibbo Street and Limestone Road, at an altitude of approximately 700m. The town has a population of around 150, although most residents live on farms and properties out of the actual town. From its early days Benambra has been regarded as a premier agricultural area, specialising in both sheep and cattle farming. The annual weaner calf sales, held in March, attract buyers from across Australia who are seeking high quality predominantly Hereford and Hereford Shorthorn Cross calves on offer. Merino sheep are raised for wool, and there is a small amount of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Dividing Range
The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansive collection of mountain ranges, plateaus and rolling hills. It runs roughly parallel to the east coast of Australia and forms the fifth-longest land-based mountain chain in the world, and the longest entirely within a single country. It is mainland Australia's most substantial topographic feature and serves as the definitive watershed for the river systems in eastern Australia, hence the name. The Great Dividing Range stretches more than from Dauan Island in the Torres Strait off the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula, running the entire length of the eastern coastline through Queensland and New South Wales, then turning west across Victoria before finally fading into the Wimmera plains as rolling hills west of the Grampians region. The width of the Range varies from about to over .Shaw, John H., ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omeo
Omeo ( ) is a town in Victoria, Australia on the Great Alpine Road, east of Mount Hotham, in the Shire of East Gippsland. At the 2016 census, Omeo had a population of 406. The name is derived from an Aboriginal word for 'mountains' or 'hills'. Omeo is affectionately known as the City of the Alps with many historic buildings remaining in the town. The town is still the commercial hub for the Omeo Region and is a service centre for outlying communities such as Benambra, Cobungra, Cassilis, Swifts Creek, and Ensay. History The first reported sighting by Europeans of the wide plain that Indigenous peoples referred to as 'Omeo' was by the naturalist John Lhotsky from the southern Alps in 1834. The area was first visited by stockmen who drove stock through the region as early as 1835. In 1845 gold was found in the Livingstone Creek which runs through Omeo, this caused the population to boom and by 1901, Omeo was at its peak with a population of 9400. They were prosperous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Register Of The National Estate
The Register of the National Estate was a heritage register that listed natural and cultural heritage places in Australia that was closed in 2007. Phasing out began in 2003, when the Australian National Heritage List and the Commonwealth Heritage List were created and by 2007 the Register had been replaced by these and various state and territory heritage registers. Places listed on the Register remain in a non-statutory archive and are still able to be viewed via the National Heritage Database. History The register was initially compiled between 1976 and 2003 by the Australian Heritage Commission, after which the register was maintained by the Australian Heritage Council. 13,000 places were listed. The expression "national estate" was first used by the British architect Clough Williams-Ellis, and reached Australia in the 1970s.Heritage of Australia, pp. 9–13 It was incorporated into the ''Australian Heritage Commission Act 1975'' and was used to describe a colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olearia Astroloba
''Olearia astroloba'', commonly known as marble daisy-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to a restricted area of Victoria, Australia, Victoria in Australia. It is a greyish shrub with Sessility (botany), sessile, spatula-shaped leaves and mauve or violet and purple, daisy-like inflorescences. Description ''Olearia astroloba'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to about and has more or less sessile, greyish-green, spatula-shaped leaves long and wide, often with teeth or shallow lobes near the tip. The lower surface of the leaves is densely covered with woolly, star-shaped hairs. The heads are arranged on the ends of branchlets and are in diameter and sessile, with an Bract#Involucral bract, involucre in diameter at the base. Each head or daisy-like Pseudanthium, "flower" has 12 to 24 ray Glossary of botanical terms#floret , florets, the mauve or violet, petal-like ligule long, surrounding 12 to 45 purple disc floret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vittadinia Tenuissima
''Vittadinia'' is a genus of Australian and New Zealand plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae.Richard, Achille (1832). ''Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe. Botanique 1: Essai d'un Flore de la Nouvelle-Zélande.'p. 250 Retrieved 19 January 2015. Taxonomy The genus ''Vittadinia'' is attributed to the French botanist Achille Richard in 1832. He described a species collected in New Zealand as '' Vittadinia australis'', noting that although it had similarities to the genus ''Aster'', there were sufficient differences to distinguish it. Two he considered significant were that ''Vittadinia'' has only two rows of involucral bracts and that its anthers are free and bent into a shape resembling a bayonet. Although species of ''Vittadinia'' were described from Hawaii by Asa Gray, and are accepted by some sources, these are now considered to belong to the genus ''Tetramolopium'' by the online ''Flora of the Hawaiian Islands'', so that ''Vittadinia'' does not occur in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pomaderris Oraria
''Pomaderris oraria'', commonly known as Bassian dogwood, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a compact shrub with hairy branchlets, hairy, elliptic leaves and panicles of hairy, greenish to cream-coloured or crimson-tinged flowers. Description ''Pomaderris oraria'' is a compact shrub that typically grows to a height of up to , and has many branchlets with soft greyish to rust-coloured, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are elliptic to egg-shaped, the size depending on subspecies, with densely hairy stipules about long at the base, but that fall off as the leaf develops. The upper surface of the leaves is covered with bristly or felt-like hairs, the lower surface densely covered with woolly white, star-shaped hairs. The flowers are borne on the ends of branchlets or in leaf axils in panicles about as long as the leaves, each flower on a pedicel long. The flowers are greenish to cream-coloured or tinged with crimso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tambo River (Victoria)
The Tambo River or ''Berrawan'' is a perennial stream, perennial river of the Mitchell River (Victoria), Mitchell River catchment, located in the East Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria. With a total length in excess of , the Tambo River is one of the longest rivers in the East Gippsland drainage basin, extending from the steep forested southern slopes of the Victorian Alps through forest and farmland to the Gippsland Lakes. Physical aspects Course The Tambo River rises in the Bowen Mountains, below Mount Leinster in the Victorian Alps, part of the Great Dividing Range, about east of . The river flows generally south by south southeast by south southwest, joined by sixteen tributary, tributaries including the Little River (Tambo River, East Gippsland, Victoria), Little and Timbarra River (Victoria), Timbarra rivers, before reaching its Mouth (river), mouth and emptying into Lake King, one of the main lakes in the extensive Gippsland Lake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Of Benambra
The County of Benambra is one of the 37 counties of Victoria which are part of the cadastral divisions of Australia, used for land titles. It is located between the Mitta Mitta River in the west, and the Murray River to the north and east. The town of Benambra is located near the southern edge. The area of the county roughly corresponds with the Electoral district of Benambra. Corryong is the largest town in the county. The county was proclaimed in 1871. Parishes Parishes include: * Adjie, Victoria * Beloka, Victoria * Benambra, Victoria * Berringa, Victoria * Berringama, Victoria * Bullioh, Victoria * Bungil East, Victoria * Bungil, Victoria * Burrowye, Victoria * Burrungabugge, Victoria * Canabore, Victoria * Cobungra, Victoria * Colac Colac, Victoria * Corryong, Victoria * Cudgewa, Victoria * Dartella, Victoria * Enano, Victoria * Gibbo, Victoria * Granya, Victoria * Gungarlan, Victoria * Hinno-Munjie, Victoria * Indi, Victoria * Jemba, Victoria * Jinde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Of Dargo
The County of Dargo is one of the 37 counties of Victoria which are part of the cadastral divisions of Australia, used for land titles. It is located in Gippsland, between the Mitchell River in the west and the Tambo River in the east. Lake King is on the southern edge. It was gazetted in 1871. Earlier maps show the area as being part of a proposed County of Abinger. Parishes Parishes include: * Angora, Victoria * Barroworn, Victoria * Bemboka, Victoria * Binnican, Victoria * Birregun, Victoria * Boonderoot, Victoria * Broadlands, Victoria * Bulgaback, Victoria * Bullumwaal, Victoria * Bumberrah, Victoria * Caarneek, Victoria * Carneek, Victoria * Cooma, Victoria * Cowa, Victoria * Dargo, Victoria * Doodwuk, Victoria * Graham, Victoria * Guttamurra, Victoria * Jirnkee, Victoria * Kalk Kalk, Victoria Kalk or KALK may refer to: * Kalk (surname) * Kalk, Cologne, a borough of Cologne, Germany * Kalk, Poland, a settlement in Kościerzyna County, Pomeranian Vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Of Tambo, Victoria
The County of Tambo is one of the 37 counties of Victoria which are part of the cadastral divisions of Australia, used for land titles. It is located in eastern Gippsland, between the Tambo River in the west, and the Snowy River in the east. It includes Lakes Entrance. Some time earlier maps showed proposed counties of Abinger and Combermere occupying the area. Parishes Parishes include: * Berrmarr, Victoria * Bete Bolong North, Victoria * Bete Bolong South, Victoria * Bindi, Victoria * Buchan, Victoria * Chilpin, Victoria * Colquhoun, Victoria * Colquhoun East, Victoria * Colquhoun North, Victoria * Detarka, Victoria * Ensay, Victoria * Eucambene, Victoria * Eumana, Victoria * Forest Hill, Victoria * Gelantipy East, Victoria * Gelantipy West, Victoria * Gillingal, Victoria * Glenmore, Victoria * Ingeegoobee, Victoria * Kaerwut, Victoria * Karawah, Victoria * Maneroo, Victoria * Marroo, Victoria * Mellick-Munjie, Victoria * Menaak, Victoria * Murrindal Eas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Neumayer
Georg Balthazar von Neumayer (21 June 1826 – 24 May 1909) was a German polar explorer and scientist who was a proponent of the idea of international cooperation for meteorology and scientific observation. He served as a hydrographer for the German Empire and was a founder of the Wilhelmshaven Observatory and the German Maritime Observatory which he directed from 1875. He was involved in establishing telegraphic networks for the sharing of meteorological data as well as promoting observatories in the Antarctic and Australia. Along with Carl Weyprecht, he was a founder of the International Polar Commission in 1879. In 1900 he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown with the associated title of Ritter von Neumayer. Biography Early years Born in Kirchheimbolanden, Palatinate, Neumayer was the fifth child of notary Georg and his wife Theresia, née Kirchner. He went to the Frankenthal gymnasium as well as schools in Speyer and Kaiserl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
