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11 unusual facts about Mornington


Balnarring, Victoria

Balnarring is at the crossroads of two primary main roads in the south-eastern region of the Mornington Peninsula, namely Frankston-Flinders Road and Balnarring Road (from Mornington), and as a result is home to a few motels, a post office and several shops and cafes including an IGA supermarket.

Bettystown

Together with the neighbouring villages of Laytown and Mornington it comprises the census town of Laytown-Bettystown-Mornington with a combined population of 10889 at the 2011 Census.

Bus Éireann route 190 provides several daily services between Laytown and Drogheda via Bettystown and Mornington.

Kaikorai Valley

The suburb is linked via Mornington Road with the suburbs of Mornington to the north and Balaclava to the south.

Laytown

Bus Éireann route 190 provides several daily services to/from Drogheda via Bettystown and Mornington.

MacKillop College, Mornington

MacKillop Catholic College is a co-educational Catholic school for Grades 7 to 10 in the Hobart suburb of Mornington.

Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Works on Paper Award

The award and its concomitant exhibition are hosted by the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, located in Mornington, Australia.

Mornington Secondary College

Mornington Secondary College is a secondary school in Mornington, Victoria, Australia serving the communities of Somerville, Tyabb, Moorooduc, Mount Martha, and Mornington on the Mornington Peninsula and offers the Hands On Learning, The Victoria Police Youth Corp and Drum Corp, and many other extra-curricular programs to its students.

Mornington, Otago

Landmarks within Mornington include the suburb's former post office in Mailer Street, a distinctive building completed in 1905 with small a mock-Byzantine domed tower above the entrance.

Mornington, Wellington

It is named after the Duke of Wellington's father, the Earl of Mornington.

South Arm Highway

The Highway starts at the Eastern Outlet near Mornington then travels south changing name to Rokeby Road and again to South Arm Road.


Alfred Downward

Born in Melbourne to Edward and Elizabeth Downward, he was educated at Prahran and Mornington before working on his father's Balnarring sheep farm.

He was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Mornington in 1894, serving until 1929; he was Minister for Water Supply and Agriculture (1908–09), Minister for Mines, Forests and Public Health (1917–18), and Minister for Immigration (1924–27).

Dunedin cable tramway system

The Mornington line was the last to close, on March 2, 1957, leaving San Francisco with the only operational cable car system in the world.

Kiss FM Australia

Kiss FM currently has active transmitters at Balwyn, Chadstone, Epping, Flemington, Frankston, Geelong, Kangaroo Ground, Laverton, Melbourne City, Mornington & Olinda and a relay service on Orbit FM's transmitters in Daylesford, Mount Buller, Wangaratta & Cairns.

Lynne Kosky

Peninsula Link - $750 million to link EastLink and the Mornington Peninsula Freeway (completed)

Melbourne Wireless

These projects including extending the network into the Western Region between Melbourne and Melton, extending the network north over the ranges into the Seymour area and adding capacity and reach to the Mornington and Bellarine Peninsulas.

Mornington Island

Macassan trepangers once travelled thousands of kilometres from Sulawesi to Mornington Island and other Australian mainland destinations in search of sea cucumbers.

Shiva Ashram

The Shiva Ashram is a residential meditation and spiritual centre in Mount Eliza, on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, about one hour outside of Melbourne.

Walter Hudson

Walter Arthur Hudson (1898–1972), New Zealand Labour Party politician, MP for Mornington (Dunedin)

William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, 5th Earl of Mornington

Mornington died unmarried in Paris on 25 July 1863 from cancer of the tongue, and is buried at Draycot Cerne in Wiltshire.

William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington

William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington GCH, PC, PC (Ire) (20 May 1763 – 22 February 1845), known as Lord Maryborough between 1821 and 1842, was an Anglo-Irish politician and an elder brother of the Duke of Wellington.