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Nandaly
Nandaly is a small town in the Mallee region of Victoria, Australia. The town is located north-west of the state capital, Melbourne on the Calder Highway in the Shire of Buloke local government area. At the , Nandaly had a population of 30. The Post Office opened on 2 November 1914 when a community developed on the arrival of the railway. With its neighbouring township Sea Lake, Nandaly has a football team (Sea Lake-Nandaly) competing in the North Central Football League The North Central Football League is an Australian rules football league based in North Central Victoria, Australia. The League was formed in 1930. Previous leagues in the area were the Birchip Football Association (as it was last called unt .... Golfers play at the course of the Nandaly Golf Club on Messinnes Street. References Towns in Victoria (Australia) {{VictoriaAU-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Central Football League
The North Central Football League is an Australian rules football league based in North Central Victoria, Australia. The League was formed in 1930. Previous leagues in the area were the Birchip Football Association (as it was last called until it disbanded in 1919), North-Western Football Association (1910–1919), the North-Western District Football Association (1920–1925), and the North Central District Football League (1926–1929). Clubs Current List of NCFL premiers * 1930 St Arnaud * ''1931 No comp'' * 1932 St Arnaud * 1933 St Arnaud * 1934 St Arnaud * 1935 Woomelang * 1936 Donald * 1937 Donald * 1938 Watchem-Litchfield * 1939 Donald * 1940 Charlton * ''1941 - 1944 WWII'' * 1945 Laen-Litchfield * 1946 Charlton * 1947 Charlton * 1948 St Arnaud * 1949 Donald * 1950 Charlton * 1951 Wedderburn * 1952 Wycheproof * 1953 Watchem-Corack * 1954 Boort * 1955 Wycheproof * 1956 Narraport * 1957 Wycheproof * 1958 St Arnaud * 1959 Birchip * 1960 Watchem-Corack * 1961 Watch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bimbourie, Victoria
Bimbourie is a locality situated in the Mallee region. The place by road, is situated about 13 kilometres from Nandaly and 22 kilometres from Sea Lake, Victoria. The place name ''Bimbourie'' is thought to be derived from the local Aboriginal Aborigine, aborigine or aboriginal may refer to: *Aborigines (mythology), in Roman mythology * Indigenous peoples, general term for ethnic groups who are the earliest known inhabitants of an area *One of several groups of indigenous peoples, see ... word ''Bimbogrie'' meaning "well dug by Aborigines". Bimbourie Post Office opened on 9 June 1911 and closed in 1914. Notes and references Towns in Victo ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyenna, Victoria
Tyenna is a small locality in the Shire of Buloke, Victoria, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma .... Tyenna State School opened in 1915, and was replaced with a one-room school building in 1923. The school closed in 1946, with the building being removed. References {{authority control ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Lake
Sea Lake is a town in the Mallee district of north-west Victoria, Australia and is situated on the southern shores of Lake Tyrrell. The town is located on the Calder Highway, north-west of Melbourne, and west of Swan Hill. Sea Lake is in the heart of Australia's wheat belt, and is the main township for a number of wheat farms in the region. At the , Sea Lake had a population of 619. History The site upon which Sea Lake is situated was first visited by colonists in 1838. Sea Lake may have been given its name by an early settler, Edward Eyre, from the Port Phillip area. Purportedly, the sea-like appearance of Lake Tyrrell inspired Eyre. An alternative version of the naming of Sea Lake comes from a surveyors report of the time when planning the township (which lies to the south of Lake Tyrrell). It is purported that a surveyor mistook a mark on hand drawings "see lake" which had been used by the author of the drawings to mark a landmark. Lake Tyrrell is the largest salt l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kulwin Railway Line
The Kulwin railway line is located in north-western Victoria, Australia. It junctions from the Robinvale line at Korong Vale and only sees usage by freight trains. History The line was opened from Korong Vale to Wycheproof in 1883, and extended to Sea Lake in 1893, to Nandaly in 1914, Mittyack in 1919, and Kulwin in 1920. Access to the line was originally from the Bendigo line via Bridgewater, until the opening of the Dunolly to Inglewood route to the Mildura line in 1888. The last regular passenger service on the line ran from Bendigo to Sea Lake on 7 May 1977 and was operated by a DERM. In April 2008 it was announced that the Korong Vale – Charlton section of the line would be upgraded as part of the Victorian core grain network, in a $23.7 million package with 6 other lines. In February 2010, baulks were placed across the line just north of Sea Lake due to the deteriorating condition of the track. As majority of grain trains only go as far as Sea Lake, this mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shire Of Buloke
The Shire of Buloke is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the western part of the state. It covers an area of and, in June 2018, had a population of 6,184. It includes the towns of Birchip, Charlton, Donald, Sea Lake and Wycheproof. It was formed in 1995 from the amalgamation of the Shire of Wycheproof, Shire of Birchip, Shire of Charlton, Shire of Donald, and parts of the Shire of Kara Kara. The Shire is governed and administered by the Buloke Shire Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the Council headquarters in Wycheproof, it also has service centres located in Birchip, Charlton, Donald and Sea Lake. The Shire is named after a major geographical feature in the region, Lake Buloke Lake Buloke is a eutrophic lake in the Wimmera region of north-western Victoria, Australia. The lake is fed by the Richardson River and is located adjacent to the township of . Lake Buloke is also one of the most popula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Straten, Victoria
Straten is a town in the Mallee Ward of the Shire of Buloke, Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada * Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory * Victoria, Seychelle ... that was also previously called Stratton. Speed East post office was in the locality and was opened on 15 January 1923, renamed Stratton on 15 April 1924 and was closed on 12 July 1952. References {{authority control ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nyarrin, Victoria
Nyarrin is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located approximately 59 km from Ouyen, Victoria. Nyarrin Post Office opened on 2 November 1914 when the railway Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in Track (rail transport), tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the ... arrived, and closed in 1970. References Towns in Victoria (state) {{VictoriaAU-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pier Milan, Victoria
Pier Milan is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is now known for its very small population, currently less than ten. Despite its small populace, it has some key points. For example, there is a caravan park made out of a house, and there are many sand hills. There is a station on the Kulwin railway line. The post office opened as ''Pier-Millan'' on 9 May 1911; it was renamed ''Pier Millan'' in 1940, and was closed on 30 September 1971. References {{authority control ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tempy, Victoria
Tempy is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located approximately 136 km from Mildura, Victoria and south of Ouyen. The area was settled after the arrival of the railway, the Post Office opening on 18 July 1910. The major industry in this region, The Mallee is farming, predominantly sheep and wheat Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain that is a worldwide staple food. The many species of wheat together make up the genus ''Triticum'' ; the most widely grown is common wheat (''T. aestivum''). The archaeolog .... Tempy Primary School opened in June 1910 on a site a mile south of the town. The building was moved to the town itself in 1914, and replaced by a new building in 1919 where the Roman Catholic Church later stood. It was replaced in 1925 by a new school on the present site. Tempy West State School (No. 3978) opened five miles west of the town in late 1918 and closed in 1936. References Towns in Victoria (Australia) Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Mallee
The Division of Mallee is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It is located in the far north-west of the state, adjoining the border with South Australia in the west, and the Murray River (which forms the border with New South Wales) in the north. At , it is the largest Division in Victoria. It includes the centres of Mildura, Ouyen, Swan Hill, St Arnaud, Warracknabeal, Stawell, Horsham and Maryborough. Geography Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned. History The division was proclaimed at the redistribution of 11 May 1949, and was first contested at the 1949 election. It was named after th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mallee
The Mallee covers the most northwesterly part of Victoria, bounded by the South Australian and New South Wales borders. Definitions of the south-eastern boundary vary, however, all are based on the historic Victorian distribution of mallee eucalypts. These trees dominate the surviving vegetation through most of Mallee, (except for swamps and areas along waterways, and very rare stands of '' casuarina''). Its biggest settlements are Mildura and Swan Hill. At the 2011 census, the four local government areas (LGAs) that are usually thought to define the district had a combined population of . The area of these same four LGAs is . There is an adjacent area also once covered with mallee scrub called "the Mallee" in South Australia, which is alternatively called the Murray Mallee. Geography and climate The Mallee is, for all practical purposes, completely flat and very low-lying: in fact, for long geological periods the whole region has been inundated by the ocean. Most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
