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32 unusual facts about Gippsland


2006–07 Australian bushfire season

Victoria experienced the longest continuously burning bushfire complex in Australia's history, with fires in the Victorian Alps and Gippsland burning over 1 million hectares of land over the course of 69 days.

In January 2007, several new bushfires were burning in the Gippsland region of Victoria.

2012 Gippsland earthquake

A magnitude 5.4 earthquake struck Gippsland near Moe at 8.55 pm on 19 June 2012, at a shallow depth of 9.9 km.

Albert Mullett

Uncle Albert Mullett is a respected Elder across Victoria, Australia, and spokesperson for members of the Gunai/Kurnai peoples, Gippsland, Victoria.

Bidhawal

The Bidhawal (also known as Bidawal and Bidwell) were an Australian Aboriginal tribe of Gippsland, Victoria.

Bunurong people

Coranderrk was closed in 1924 and its occupants forced to move to Lake Tyers in Gippsland.

Cape Liptrap Lighthouse

Cape Liptrap Lighthouse stands upon the rocky cliff top of Cape Liptrap peninsula, on a solitary part of the South Gippsland coastline.

Curlip

It was operated along the Snowy River in Australia's Gippsland region between 1890 and 1919, before being washed out to sea, and broken on Marlo beach, by a flash flood.

Diocese of Gippsland

The Anglican Diocese of Gippsland is located in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia, extending from Phillip Island to Mallacoota.

Forest Raven

It is also found in southern Victoria from Gippsland west through Wilson's Promontory and the Otway Ranges.

Giant Gippsland earthworm

They live in the subsoil of blue, grey or red clay soils along stream banks and some south or west facing hills of their remaining habitat which is in Gippsland in Victoria, Australia.

Gippsland Independent Schools

Gippsland Independent Schools (GIS) is an association of schools in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

Gippsland massacres

:1846-47 - Central Gippsland - 50 or more shot by armed party hunting for a white woman supposedly held by Aborigines; no such woman was ever found.

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

Gippsland phantom cat

Upon the end of the war, it is speculated that the pumas were released into the wild, somewhere in the Gippsland region (although some claim the cats were released in the Grampians National Park) where they subsequently bred.

Grand Ridge Rail Trail

The Grand Ridge Rail Trail or Mirboo North to Boolarra Rail Trail is a 13 kilometre rail trail in the Strzelecki Ranges of west central Gippsland, connecting the towns of Mirboo North and Boolarra.

Grand Ridge Road

The Grand Ridge Road, partially designated route C484, is a long tourist drive through Gippsland, in Victoria, Australia.

Great Alpine Road

The Great Alpine Road links Victoria's North East with Gippsland.

Happy Creek railway station

Happy Creek is a railway station on the Walhalla narrow gauge line in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

HM Prison Won Wron

HM Prison Won Wron was noteworthy in that it held a fun-run with the tongue-in-cheek name of "Prisoners on the Run" annually on Easter Sunday, with the goal of raising funds to help support disabled and disadvantaged children in the Gippsland area.

Jack Dann

He currently lives on a farm overlooking the sea in the Gippsland region of Victoria, but also typically spends some period of each year in Los Angeles and New York.

Moondarra Rail Trail

The Moondarra Rail Trail is a little-maintained, 7  km section of the former Walhalla Railway in Gippsland, Victoria.

Nowhere Left to Hide

They also performed at the Gippsland emergency relief concert, to support victims of the February 2009 Victorian bushfires, along with Evermore, Adam Brand and Lee Kernaghan.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Sale

The diocese covers the southeastern part of Victoria, from the eastern suburbs of Melbourne to the New South Wales border, including all of Gippsland.

Rosstown Railway

At the time, a railway to Gippsland was being negotiated and with many interested and influential parties involved, it was a political nightmare.

The Gippslander

The Gippslander was am Australian named passenger train operated by the Victorian Railways from Melbourne through the Gippsland region to Bairnsdale.

The Pea-Pickers

It is a first person, semi-autobiographical narrative about two sisters who travel in the 1920s to Gippsland, and other rural areas, to work as agricultural labourers.

The novel has a thin plot: two sisters, dressed as men and taking men's names, Steve and Blue, decide to work as agricultural labourers in Gippsland, the place their mother has told them about throughout their childhood and with which they feel they have a "spiritual link".

Walhalla railway station

Walhalla was a railway station on the Walhalla narrow gauge line in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

Warragul Show

The Warragul Show is agricultural show held on the first Friday and Saturday of March annually since 1885 in Warragul, a town in the West Gippsland region of Victoria in Australia.

Warrigal Creek

Warrigal Creek is a creek and area in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

White woman of Gippsland

The white woman of Gippsland, or the captive woman of Gippsland, was supposedly a European woman rumoured to have been held against her will by Aboriginal Kurnai people in the Gippsland region of Australia in the 1840s.


2002–03 Australian bushfire season

Perhaps the most well known fire of the season was the Eastern Victorian alpine bushfires that burnt in north-eastern Victoria, the Victorian Alps and Gippsland.

2012 Gippsland earthquake

This tremor was felt across south Gippsland, as well as Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula.

Anthony Pritchard

As part of the Vice-Chancellor's Executive (Professor Mal Logan), he played a central role in the mergers undertaken by Monash with the Chisholm Institute of Technology and the Gippsland College of Advanced Education (GIAE).

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.

Counties of Victoria

Earlier maps of Gippsland area in the eastern part of the state show proposed counties of Douro (a title of the Duke of Wellington), Bass, Haddington, Bruce, Abinger, Combermere and Howe with approximate boundaries.

Gippsland Art Gallery

The Gippsland Art Gallery is a Victorian Regional Public Gallery based in Sale, Victoria, 220 kilometres east of Melbourne.

Graham Dodsworth

Born in the Yallourn Hospital in Gippsland, Victoria, he lived his first five years in Moe after which his family moved to Vermont in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne, where he attended Vermont Primary and Secondary Schools.

Moe, Victoria

V/Line runs a passenger rail service to Moe station as part of the Traralgon and Gippsland V/Line rail services which runs to Melbourne's major stations Southern Cross Station and Flinders Street Station.

Monash University, Gippsland campus

The Gippsland campus is a former branch campus of Monash University located in the town of Churchill 142 km east of Melbourne.

Nyora railway station

The station is now part of the South Gippsland Tourist railway, after passenger operations on the line ceased beyond Cranbourne station in 1993.

Rob Maclellan

He moved to Berwick in 1976 when Gippsland West was abolished, and in that year became Minister of Labour and Industry and Minister of Consumer Affairs.

Strikebound

Strikebound is the dramatised story of a coal-miners' strike in 1930s Australia, in the small south Gippsland town of Korumburra.

Victorian Railways X class

They were the most powerful goods locomotive on the VR until the advent of diesel-electric traction, and operated over the key Bendigo, Wodonga, and Gippsland mainlines.

West Gippsland

Principal towns of West Gippsland include (from west to east along the Princes Highway) Pakenham, Drouin, Warragul and Trafalgar.

Wonga Pigeon

The Wonga Pigeon (Leucosarcia melanoleuca) is a pigeon that inhabits areas in eastern Australia with its range being from Central Queensland to Gippsland, eastern Victoria, Australia.