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Before European settlement in the early 1800s, around 88% of the 23.7 million hectare colony of what was to become the State of Victoria in 1851 was tree covered. [6] However, the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s combined with widespread and indiscriminate land clearing for mining, agriculture and settlement became one of the major causes of forest loss and degradation.
East Gippsland is the eastern region of Gippsland, Victoria, Australia covering 31,740 km 2 (12,250 sq mi) (14%) of Victoria. It has a population of 80,114. [1]
The Shire of East Gippsland is a local government area in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, located in the eastern part of the state. It covers an area of 20,940 square kilometres (8,080 sq mi) and as of the 2021 census had a population of 48,715.
The Aboriginal name for the Sale area is Wayput. [4] Two famous Gippsland explorers, Paul Strzelecki and Angus McMillan, passed through the immediate area around 1840.The first white settler was Archibald McIntosh who arrived in 1844 and established his 'Flooding Creek' property on the flood plain country which was duly inundated soon after his arrival.
The Strzelecki Ranges (/ s t r ɛ z ˈ l ɛ k i / strehz-LECK-ee) is a set of low mountain ridges located in the West Gippsland and South Gippsland regions of the Australian state of Victoria. The Ranges are named after Paweł Edmund Strzelecki , a Polish explorer, who with the assistance of Charley Tarra the small party's Aboriginal guide, led ...
Eastern Victoria Region is one of the eight electoral regions of Victoria, Australia, which elects five members to the Victorian Legislative Council (also referred to as the upper house) by proportional representation.
Eagle Point is a town in Victoria, Australia, in the Shire of East Gippsland, by Lake King. [2] The area encompasses the red limestone cliffs by the Mitchell River and Mitchell River silt jetties . It is a popular tourist destination.
Angus McMillan was born in Glen Brittle, Isle of Skye, Scotland, [5] the fourth son of Ewan McMillan, a sheep farmer. After an early life of hardship and deprivation, both in Glen Brittle and subsequently at Kilbride Farm, South Uist, he migrated to Australia in 1838. [6]