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7 unusual facts about Pakenham


Beaconhills College

The college has 3 campuses: Little Beacons Learning Centre and the Pakenham Campus located in Pakenham and the Berwick Campus is situated in Berwick, Victoria, Australia.

Cardinia Transit

926 PakenhamWestfield Fountain Gate via Lakeside, Beaconsfield station & Berwick (Daily)

Cardinia Transit was formed in June 1996 when Grenda Corporation purchased Berwick Bus Lines and amalgamated them with Grenda's Bus Services' Pakenham depot.

929 Pakenham – Pakenham North via Windermere Boulevard (Daily)

Lakeside Lutheran College

Lakeside Lutheran College, established in 2006, is a co-educational P-12 school located in Pakenham, Victoria, Australia, associated with the Lutheran Church of Australia.

Pakenham, Suffolk

Nether Hall, a separate manor house positioned on the Border of Pakenham and Thurston, is also present in the village.

Star News Group

Star News Group is a newspaper company based in Pakenham, Victoria, with a circulation of 450,000 per week.


Amba Geshen

Another inaccurate account of Amba Geshen, called Mount Amara, was published in Purchas, His Pilgrimage, which Pakenham believes inspired John Milton's description of Paradise that appeared in Paradise Lost.

Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington

Her brother, Edward "Ned" Pakenham, served under Wellesley throughout the Peninsular War and Wellesley's regard for him helped to smooth his relations with Kitty, until Ned Pakenham's death at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.

Christine Longford

They divided their time between Dublin and Pakenham Hall, now Tullynally Castle, in Castlepollard, County Westmeath.

Edward Michael Conolly

He was born Edward Michael Pakenham, son of Admiral Sir Thomas Pakenham by his wife Louisa, daughter of John Staples and niece of Thomas Conolly of Castletown.

Electoral district of Bass

It is covers a diverse range of terrority, from outer suburban Pakenham to the rural towns of Lang Lang and Nar Nar Goon to the coastal tourist centres of Phillip Island and Inverloch.

Hugh Mulholland

During his tenure at the gallery he curated major exhibitions by prominent International artists including, Barbara Freeman, Jack Pakenham, Yoko Ono, David Byrne, Hans Peter Kuhn, Stan Douglas, Willie Doherty, Victor Sloan and Alistair MacLennan.

Koo Wee Rup bypass

It is planned to link the Princes Freeway at Pakenham to the South Gippsland Highway at Koo Wee Rup using the existing alignment of the Healesville - Koo Wee Rup Road.

Michael Pakenham

Since retiring from the Diplomatic Service, Pakenham has been chairman of Pakenvest International; senior adviser to Access Industries; non-executive director of the Westminster Group; a trustee of Chevening House; and a lay member of the governing Council of King's College London (and its Vice-Chairman since 2009).

Monash University, Caulfield campus

Caulfield railway station is only a hundred metres from the university and is located on the Frankston-Pakenham-Cranbourne line.

O and P-class destroyer

Pakenham * (ex-Onslow), built by Hawthorn Leslie & Company, Hebburn, damaged by gunfire from Italian Navy torpedo boats Cassiopea and Cigno off Marsala 1943-04-16, abandoned and sunk by sister ship HMS Paladin (see Battle of the Cigno Convoy)

Rob Maclellan

He was a Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, representing the seats of Gippsland West (1970–76), Berwick (1976–92) and Pakenham (1992–2002).

Sandown Racecourse

The course can be reached in 40 minutes, from Flinders Street Station in the city via Sandown Park railway station on the Pakenham and the

Sir Samuel Hercules Hayes, 4th Baronet

Hayes was born in 1840 the son of Sir Edmund Samuel Hayes, 3rd Baronet and his wife Emily Pakenham, daughter of Lieutenant-General the Honourable Sir Hercules Pakenham, a son of the Earl of Longford.

West Gippsland

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

Wilma Oram

Aside from her work on the farm she was an active member of the RSL, serving as the treasurer and even as president of the Pakenham RSL.

Yaqob

Thomas Pakenham provides a brief sketch of Saga Krestos' European life in his The Mountains of Rasselas, and the book ends with a description of Pakenham's visit to Saga Krestos' grave in Rueil-Malmaison.


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