Albacutya is a locality in the
Shire of Hindmarsh
The Shire of Hindmarsh 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 5,645, having fallen from 5,852 in June 2013.
It includes the towns o ...
,
Victoria
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* Victoria (state), a state of Australia
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Australia
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. The locality surrounds the shores of
Lake Albacutya
Lake Albacutya (Wergaia: ''Ngelbakutya'') is an ephemeral lake located in Albacutya within the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia. It is one of a series of terminal lakes on the Wimmera River, which form the largest land-locked drainage syst ...
. At the , Albacutya had a population of 0.
The name is derived from the
Wergaia
The Wergaia or Werrigia people are an Aboriginal Australian group in the Mallee (Victoria), Mallee and Wimmera regions of north-Western Victoria (Australia), Victoria, made up of a number of clans. The people were also known as the Maligundidj ( ...
word for Lake Albacatya "Ngelbakutya".
Albacatya is one of many places located on the Wimmera Mallee Silo Art Trail with Silo art created in 2021 by Kitt Bennett.
References
Towns in Victoria (state)
Shire of Hindmarsh
Wimmera
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