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3 unusual facts about East Gippsland


East Gippsland

The Buchan district is popular with tourists for its limestone caves.

Smaller, but significant, towns in the more mountainous northern areas include Ensay, Swifts Creek, Omeo, and Buchan.

Gippsland massacres

The Aboriginal people of East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, known as the Gunai/Kurnai people, fought against the European invasion of their land.


Callistemon kenmorrisonii

This species occurs in riparian scrub in an area of State forest on the upper Betka River near Genoa in East Gippsland.


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Brown Mountain forest

A temporary injunction on logging was ordered on September 14, 2009 by Justice Jack Forrest, after the environmental group Environment East Gippsland sued state-owned timber agency VicForests in the Supreme Court, arguing it would be failing its duty to protect native animals if it logged the two remaining coups as planned.

East Gippsland Catchment Management Authority

The East Gippsland Catchment Management Authority (CMA) covers 22,000 kmĀ² of land, lakes and coastal waters in the easternmost part of Victoria.