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Noojee, Victoria
Noojee is a town in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia, north of Warragul and east of Melbourne, in the Baw Baw local government area. At the 2016 census, Noojee and the surrounding area had a population of 157. The town benefits from tourists passing through to the Mount Baw Baw Alpine Resort, 48 kilometres away, as it is the last stop with tourism services. There are also a number of walks in the area, including the Noojee Trestle Bridge, a 100m wooden rail bridge. History "Noojee" is an Aboriginal word meaning "valley of or place of rest". It was first settled after gold was found in the area in the 1860s. Noojee became a major timber town when the railway Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ... connected the town to Warragul in 1919. Noojee Post Office ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Of Buln Buln
The County of Buln Buln is one of the 37 counties of Victoria which are part of the cadastral divisions of Australia, used for land titles. It was first proclaimed in government gazette on 24 Feb 1871 together with others from the Gipps Land District. It includes Wilsons Promontory, and the Victorian coast from around Venus Bay in the west to Lake Wellington in the east. Sale is near its north-eastern edge. Some time earlier maps showed proposed counties of Bass, Douro, and part of Haddington and Bruce occupying the area of Buln Buln. Parishes Parishes include: * Alberton East, Victoria * Alberton West, Victoria * Allambee, Victoria * Allambee East, Victoria * Balloong, Victoria * Beek Beek, Victoria * Binginwarri, Victoria * Boodyarn, Victoria * Booran, Victoria * Bruthen, Victoria * Budgeree, Victoria * Bulga, Victoria * Callignee, Victoria * Carrajung, Victoria * Coolungoolun, Victoria * Darnum, Victoria * Darriman, Victoria * Devon, Victoria * Doomburr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toorongo Falls Reserve
The Toorongo Falls Reserve protects two waterfalls, Amphitheatre Falls on the Toorongo River and Toorongo Falls on the Little Toorongo River, including the confluence of those two rivers, in Gippsland, West Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. It is located approximately north-east of the town of Noojee, approximately east of Melbourne. Flora and fauna The Reserve is home to wet forest types, including mountain grey gum, Eucalyptus regnans, mountain ash, manna gum, Australian blackwood, blackwood and Hedycarya angustifolia, Austral mulberry. A variety of ferns thrive in the damp conditions including the Asplenium flabellifolium, necklace fern, soft tree fern, and the Tmesipteris obliqua, long fork-fern. Animals found in the reserve include Common brushtail possum, common and mountain brushtail possum, Common ringtail possum, ringtail possum, sugar glider, and a variety of bats. Red-bellied black snakes are commonly found during warmer periods. Waterfalls Walking tracks The re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Friday (1939)
The Black Friday bushfires of 13 January 1939, in Victoria, Australia, were part of the devastating 1938–1939 bushfire season in Australia, which saw bushfires burning for the whole summer, and ash falling as far away as New Zealand. It was calculated that three-quarters of the State of Victoria was directly or indirectly affected by the disaster, while other Australian states and the Australian Capital Territory were also badly hit by fires and extreme heat. This was the third-deadliest bushfire event in Australian history, only behind the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires and the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires. Fires burned almost of land in Victoria, where 71 people were killed, and several towns were entirely obliterated. Over 1,300 homes and 69 sawmills were burned, and 3,700 buildings were destroyed or damaged. In response, the Victorian state government convened a Royal Commission that resulted in major changes in forest management. The Royal Commission noted that "it appe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1925–26 Victorian Bushfire Season
A series of major Bushfires in Australia, bushfires occurred between 26 January and 10 March 1926 in the state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria in Australia. A total of 60 people were killed with 700 injured, and 1000 buildings and 390,000 ha were destroyed across the south-east of the state. On 14 February, later referred to as Black Sunday, bushfires swept across Gippsland, the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong Ranges and the Kinglake, Victoria, Kinglake area. The fires had originated in forest areas on 26 January, but wind gusts of up to 97 km per hour led to the joining of the fire fronts on 14 February. In the Warburton, Victoria, Warburton area, 31 deaths were recorded including 14 at Wooley's Mill in Gilderoy, Victoria, Gilderoy, 6 at Big Pats Creek, Victoria, Big Pats Creek and 2 at Powelltown, Victoria, Powelltown. Other affected settlements included Noojee, Victoria, Noojee, Erica, Victoria, Erica and Kinglake, Victoria, Kinglake, where St Mary's Church and Thompson's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noojee Railway Line
The Noojee railway line is a closed railway line in State of Victoria, Victoria, Australia. Branching off from the Orbost railway line, Gippsland line at Warragul railway station, Warragul station, it was built to service the timber industry in the upper Latrobe River area, transporting timber as well as providing a general goods and passenger service to townships in the area. The final section of the line between Neerim South, Victoria, Neerim South and Noojee, Victoria, Noojee traversed increasingly hilly terrain and featured a number of large timber trestle bridges. Extensively and repeatedly damaged by bushfires over the years, the line was closed in the 1950s and dismantled. The last remaining large trestle bridge on the line has been preserved and has become a popular local tourist attraction. History Only a few years after the opening of the Gippsland mainline to Sale, townships along the upper reaches of the Latrobe River began to petition for a branch line to be built ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gold
Gold is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol Au (from Latin ) and atomic number 79. In its pure form, it is a brightness, bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal. Chemically, gold is a transition metal, a group 11 element, and one of the noble metals. It is one of the least reactivity (chemistry), reactive chemical elements, being the second-lowest in the reactivity series. It is solid under standard temperature and pressure, standard conditions. Gold often occurs in free elemental (native state (metallurgy), native state), as gold nugget, nuggets or grains, in rock (geology), rocks, vein (geology), veins, and alluvial deposits. It occurs in a solid solution series with the native element silver (as in electrum), naturally alloyed with other metals like copper and palladium, and mineral inclusions such as within pyrite. Less commonly, it occurs in minerals as gold compounds, often with tellurium (gold tellurides). Gold is resistant to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Australians are people with familial heritage from, or recognised membership of, the various ethnic groups living within the territory of contemporary Australia prior to History of Australia (1788–1850), British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups, which include many ethnic groups: the Aboriginal Australians of the mainland and many islands, including Aboriginal Tasmanians, Tasmania, and the Torres Strait Islanders of the seas between Queensland and Papua New Guinea, located in Melanesia. 812,728 people Aboriginality, self-identified as being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin in the 2021 Australian Census, representing 3.2% of the total population of Australia. Of these Indigenous Australians, 91.4% identified as Aboriginal, 4.2% identified as Torres Strait Islander, and 4.4% identified with both groups. The term Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples or the person's specific cultural group, is often preferred, though the term ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noojee Trestle Bridge Rail Trail
The Noojee Trestle Bridge Rail Trail is a short, rail trail in Noojee, Victoria, Australia. As its name suggests, it primarily features an impressive trestle bridge. The trail follows the alignment of the former Noojee railway line The Noojee railway line is a closed railway line in State of Victoria, Victoria, Australia. Branching off from the Orbost railway line, Gippsland line at Warragul railway station, Warragul station, it was built to service the timber industry in .... Rail trails in Victoria (state) Victorian Heritage Register Shire of Baw Baw {{VictoriaAU-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Baw Baw Alpine Resort
Mt. Baw Baw Alpine Resort is an Australian downhill ski resort located approximately east of Melbourne and north of the Latrobe Valley in Victoria. The Alpine Resort is an unincorporated area which is surrounded by the Baw Baw National Park and the Australian Alps Walking Track passes nearby. The summit of Mount Baw Baw (1567m) falls within the boundaries of the resort and is accessible by lift or walking trail. The resort is also a base for cross-country skiing on the Baw-Baw Plateau. The resort is the closest downhill ski resort to Melbourne and takes 2.5 hours to reach. Road access to the resort is via the Mount Baw Baw Tourist Road (from the west) or the unsealed South Face Road (from the east). In 2018, Mt. Baw Baw became the second ski resort in Australia to operate a TechnoAlpin Snow Factory capable of producing snow in any outdoor temperature. Ski runs The Mt Baw Baw alpine resort has 7 surface lifts which provide access to its 15 ski runs and toboggan areas: Maltes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Australian Census
The 2016 Australian census was the 17th Census in Australia, national population census held in Australia. The census was officially conducted with effect on Tuesday, 9 August 2016. The total population of the Commonwealth of Australia was counted as – an increase of 8.8 per cent or people over the . Norfolk Island joined the census for the first time in 2016, adding 1,748 to the population. The ABS annual report revealed that $24 million in additional expenses accrued due to the outage on the census website. Results from the 2016 census were available to the public on 11 April 2017, from the Australian Bureau of Statistics website, two months earlier than for any previous census. The second release of data occurred on 27 June 2017 and a third data release was from 17 October 2017. Australia's next census took place in 2021 Australian census, 2021. Scope The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) states the aim of the 2016 Australian census is "to count every person who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
