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Milawa
Milawa is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on Snow Road, south-east of Wangaratta, in the Rural City of Wangaratta. At the , Milawa had a population of 588. It is at the northern end of the King Valley wine region, between the King River to the west and Ovens River to the north (they meet in Wangaratta). Milawa is the hub of the Milawa Gourmet Region which offers a wide range of produce. History Milawa was named in 1873 after being known only as The Square for many years prior. The word Milawa is aboriginal in origin. The word is made up of the words 'Mila' meaning 'Eyes' and 'Wah/Wa' meaning water. The Bpangerang people in the Milawa area were the ''water watchers'' who kept a close eye on the two main rivers, the King River (the Poodumbia) and the Ovens (the Torryong). In these early times the ''Emu Hotel'' occupied one corner (built by James Henley) and the ''Commercial'' was on the opposite corner (built by Colin Gardner). General merchandise was available at McKenz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ovens & King Football League
The Ovens & King Football Netball League (OKFNL) is an Australian rules football and netball competition based in north-eastern Victoria (state), Victoria around the regional cities of Benalla, Victoria, Benalla and Wangaratta, Victoria, Wangaratta. History The Ovens & King Football League (OKFL) was formed on 13 June 1903 after a handful of men met at The Bulls Head Hotel in Wangaratta to consider forming a football competition. One week later, the first matches of the Ovens & King Football Association were played. The competition changed its name to the Ovens and King Football League after the 1928 season. Today, more than 100 years later, teams from Benalla, Bright, Greta, King Valley, Milawa, Moyhu, North Wangaratta, Tarrawingee and Whorouly participate in seniors, reserves and five netball grades. Located in the rich Ovens River, Ovens Valley and King River, Victoria, King Valley of northeast Victoria, the league has produced a number of elite football who have gone on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brown Brothers Milawa Vineyard
Brown Brothers Milawa Vineyard is a family-owned wine company based in Milawa, Victoria, Australia. Brown Brothers was founded in 1889 by John Francis Brown and continues to be owned and operated by his descendants on the original property. Brown Brothers makes wine from a wide range of List of grape varieties, grape varieties and into a range of styles. History In 2009, Brown Brothers was asked to join Australian wine alliance Australia's First Families of Wine a multimillion-dollar venture to help resurrect the fortunes of the $6 billion industry highlighting the quality and diversity of Australian wine.Simon Evans, The Australian Financial Review, Tuesday 18 August 2009, Page 61 The 12 member alliance includes Brown Brothers, Campbells, Taylors, De Bortoli Wines, DeBortoli, McWilliam’s, Tahbilk, Tyrell’s, Yalumba, D'Arenberg, Howard Park Wines, Howard Park, Jim Barry and Henschke. The main criteria are that the family-owned companies need to have a "landmark wine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rural City Of Wangaratta
The Rural City of Wangaratta is a Local government areas of Victoria, local government area in the Hume (region), Hume region of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, located in the north-east part of the state. It covers an area of and, in August 2021, had a population of 29,808. It includes the towns of Cheshunt, Victoria, Cheshunt, Eldorado, Victoria, Eldorado, Everton, Victoria, Everton, Glenrowan, Victoria, Glenrowan, Greta, Victoria, Greta, Greta West, Victoria, Greta West, Milawa, Victoria, Milawa, Moyhu, Victoria, Moyhu, Oxley, Victoria, Oxley, Tarrawingee, Victoria, Tarrawingee, Wangaratta, Victoria, Wangaratta and Whitfield, Victoria, Whitfield. It was formed in 1994 from the amalgamation of the City of Wangaratta, Shire of Wangaratta (Victoria), Shire of Wangaratta, Shire of Oxley, and parts of the United Shire of Beechworth, Shire of Benalla and Shire of Yarrawonga. When formed the municipality was originally called the Shire of Milawa, but a few months later, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wangaratta, Victoria
Wangaratta ( ) is a city in the northeast of Victoria, Australia, from Melbourne along the Hume Highway. The city had a population of 29,808 per the 2021 Australian Census. The city is located at the junction of the Ovens and King rivers, which drain the northwestern slopes of the Victorian Alps. Wangaratta is the administrative centre and the most populous city in the Rural City of Wangaratta local government area. History The original inhabitants of the area were the ''Pallanganmiddang'', ''WayWurru'', ''Waveroo''. The first European explorers to pass through the Wangaratta area were Hume and Hovell (1824) who named the Oxley Plains immediately south of Wangaratta. Major Thomas Mitchell during his 1836 expedition made a favourable report of its potential as grazing pasture. The first squatter to arrive was Thomas Rattray in 1838 who built a hut (on the site of the Wangaratta RSL) founding a settlement known as "Ovens Crossing". The Post Office in the area opened on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Valley
The King Valley, or King River Valley, is a viticulture, wine-producing and agricultural region centered on the King River, Victoria, King River between Wangaratta, Victoria, Wangaratta and the Alpine National Park in the North East Victoria zone of the Australian state of Victoria (state), Victoria. There are several small towns within the region, including: Cheshunt, Victoria, Cheshunt, Whitfield, Victoria, Whitfield, King Valley, Victoria, King Valley, Edi, Victoria, Edi, Claremont, Victoria, Claremont, Moyhu, Victoria, Moyhu, Byrne, Victoria, Byrne, Docker, Victoria, Docker and Oxley, Victoria, Oxley. King Valley was recorded as an Australian Geographical Indication protected name on 12 October 2007. History The region has been used since the 1880s to grow a variety of crops, including hops and tobacco, alongside dairy and beef cattle production. A Narrow gauge lines of the Victorian Railways, narrow-gauge railway was built between Wangaratta and Whitfield in 1889, and a go ... [...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] |
Electoral District Of Ovens Valley
The electoral district of Ovens Valley is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in Australia. It was created in the redistribution of electoral boundaries in 2013, and came into effect at the 2014 Victorian state election, 2014 state election. It largely covers areas from the abolished district of Electoral district of Murray Valley, Murray Valley, centering on the city of Wangaratta, Victoria, Wangaratta. It includes the towns of Yarrawonga, Victoria, Yarrawonga, Cobram, Victoria, Cobram, and other towns in the local government areas of Shire of Moira, Moira, Rural City of Wangaratta, Wangaratta, and Alpine Shire, Alpine. The abolished seat of Murray Valley was held by Nationals MP Tim McCurdy, who retained the new seat at the 2014 election. Members Election results References External links District profile from the Victorian Electoral Commission Electoral districts of Victoria (state), Ovens Valley, Electoral district of 2014 establis ... [...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] |
Melbourne
Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victoria (state), Victoria, and the second most-populous city in Australia, after Sydney. The city's name generally refers to a metropolitan area also known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of Local Government Areas of Victoria#Municipalities of Greater Melbourne, 31 local government areas. The name is also used to specifically refer to the local government area named City of Melbourne, whose area is centred on the Melbourne central business district and some immediate surrounds. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong Ranges, and the Macedon R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria, Australia
Victoria, commonly abbreviated as Vic, is a 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 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 coastal and central regions to the Victorian Alps in the northeast and the semi-arid northwest. The majority of the ... [...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] |
King River (Victoria)
The King River, a perennial river of the North-East Murray catchment of the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the Alpine and Hume regions of Victoria, Australia. It flows from the northwestern slopes of the Alpine National Park in the Australian Alps, through the King Valley, and joining with the Ovens River at the rural city of Wangaratta. Location and features The King River rises below Mount Buggery, within Mansfield Shire, at an elevation exceeding above sea level. The river flows generally north by northwest, most of its course through remote parts of the Alpine and Mount Buffalo national parks, and then descending into the King Valley, joined by eight minor tributaries, before reaching its confluence with the Ovens River at Wangaratta. The river descends over its course. The river is impounded by the William Hovell Dam to form Lake William Hovell, that provides water for approximately for irrigated crops, vineyards and grazing properties along the King R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
