74 relations: Ash Wednesday bushfires, Australia, Belgrave Heights, Victoria, Belgrave South, Victoria, Belgrave, Victoria, Black Saturday bushfires, Boon wurrung, Boronia, Victoria, Bureau of Meteorology, Bushfires in Victoria, Cardinia Creek, Clematis, Victoria, Cockatoo, Victoria, Dacite, Dandenong Creek, Dandenong Ranges National Park, Day-tripper, Devonian, Emerald, Victoria, Eucalyptus regnans, Fern, Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Ferny Creek, Victoria, Gembrook, Victoria, Great Dividing Range, Horatio Jones house, Igneous rock, Kallista, Victoria, Kalorama, Victoria, Kilsyth, Victoria, Kulin, Macclesfield, Victoria, Melbourne, Menzies Creek, Victoria, Metamorphic rock, Monbulk, Victoria, Montrose, Victoria, Mooroolbark, Victoria, Mount Dandenong, Victoria, Mount Evelyn, Victoria, Mount Macedon, Victoria, Mountain Highway, Narrow-gauge railway, Olinda, Victoria, Partially guyed tower, Port Phillip, Puffing Billy Railway, Rainforest, Rhyodacite, Sassafras, Victoria, ..., Sclerophyll, Sedimentary rock, Selby, Victoria, Seville East, Victoria, Seville, Victoria, Sherbrooke Forest, Silvan, Victoria, Snow, Stringybark, Tecoma, Victoria, The Basin, Victoria, The Patch, Victoria, Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Upwey, Victoria, Victoria (Australia), Volcano, Wandin East, Victoria, Wandin North, Victoria, Woiwurrung language, Woori Yallock Creek, Wurundjeri, You Yangs, 1938 Kyeema crash, 1996–97 Australian bushfire season. Expand index (24 more) »
Ash Wednesday bushfires
The Ash Wednesday bushfires, known in South Australia as Ash Wednesday II, were a series of bushfires that occurred in south-eastern Australia on 16 February 1983, which was Ash Wednesday in the Christian calendar.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Belgrave Heights, Victoria
Belgrave Heights is a town in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 38 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district.
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Belgrave South, Victoria
Belgrave South is a locality within, and a suburb of, Greater Melbourne mainly beyond the Melbourne metropolitan area Urban Growth Boundary, 39 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district.
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Belgrave, Victoria
Belgrave is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 35 km east of Melbourne's central business district.
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Black Saturday bushfires
The Black Saturday bushfires were a series of bushfires that ignited or were burning across the Australian state of Victoria on and around Saturday, 7 February 2009 and were Australia's all-time worst bushfire disasters.
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Boon wurrung
The Boon wurrung, commonly written Bunurong, are Indigenous Australians of the Kulin nation, who occupy South-Central Victoria, Australia.
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Boronia, Victoria
Boronia is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 32 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Knox local government area.
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Bureau of Meteorology
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) is an Executive Agency of the Australian Government responsible for providing weather services to Australia and surrounding areas.
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Bushfires in Victoria
The state of Victoria in Australia has had a long history of catastrophic bushfires, the most recent of these, the Black Saturday bushfires of 2009 claiming 173 lives.
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Cardinia Creek
Cardinia Creek is a fresh water creek which flows from Cardinia Reservoir into Western Port Bay south east of Melbourne.
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Clematis, Victoria
Clematis is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 42 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district.
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Cockatoo, Victoria
Cockatoo is a town in Victoria, Australia, 48 km south-east of the Melbourne central business district, located within the Shire of Cardinia local government area.
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Dacite
Dacite is an igneous, volcanic rock.
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Dandenong Creek
The Dandenong Creek (Aboriginal Bunwurrung: Narra Narrawong or Dandinnong) is an urban creek of the Port Phillip catchment, located in the eastern and south-eastern Greater Melbourne region of the Australian state of Victoria.
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Dandenong Ranges National Park
The Dandenong Ranges National Park is a national park located in the Greater Melbourne region of Victoria, Australia.
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Day-tripper
A day-tripper is a person who visits a tourist destination or visitor attraction from his/her home and returns home on the same day.
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Devonian
The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic, spanning 60 million years from the end of the Silurian, million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Carboniferous, Mya.
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Emerald, Victoria
Emerald is a suburb in the Greater Melbourne area of Victoria, Australia, 44 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shires of Cardinia and Yarra Ranges local government areas.
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Eucalyptus regnans
Eucalyptus regnans, known variously as mountain ash, swamp gum, or stringy gum, is a species of Eucalyptus native to Tasmania and the state of Victoria in southeastern Australia.
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Fern
A fern is a member of a group of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers.
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Ferntree Gully, Victoria
Ferntree Gully is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, at the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, 32 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Knox local government area.
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Ferny Creek, Victoria
Ferny Creek is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 33 km south-east of Melbourne's central business district.
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Gembrook, Victoria
Gembrook is a town in Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Cardinia local government area.
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Great Dividing Range
The Great Dividing Range, or the Eastern Highlands, is Australia's most substantial mountain range and the third longest land-based range in the world.
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Horatio Jones house
Horatio Jones house is a house in Tecoma, Victoria built in or around 1920-1926 by Australian inventor, engineer and recluse Horatio Thomas Jones.
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Igneous rock
Igneous rock (derived from the Latin word ignis meaning fire), or magmatic rock, is one of the three main rock types, the others being sedimentary and metamorphic.
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Kallista, Victoria
Kallista is a locality within Greater Melbourne beyond the Melbourne metropolitan area Urban Growth Boundary, 36 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district.
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Kalorama, Victoria
Kalorama is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 35 km east of Melbourne's central business district.
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Kilsyth, Victoria
Kilsyth is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 36 km east from Melbourne's central business district (CBD).
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Kulin
The Kulin nation is an alliance of five Indigenous Australian tribes in south central Victoria, Australia.
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Macclesfield, Victoria
Macclesfield is a town in Victoria, Australia, 47 km east of Melbourne's central business district.
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Melbourne
Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.
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Menzies Creek, Victoria
Menzies Creek is a township in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 42 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shires of Cardinia and Yarra Ranges local government areas.
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Metamorphic rock
Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock types, in a process called metamorphism, which means "change in form".
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Monbulk, Victoria
Monbulk is a town in Melbourne Metropolitan Region located 42 km east of Melbourne's central business district near the Silvan Reservoir.
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Montrose, Victoria
Montrose is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 33 km east of Melbourne's central business district.
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Mooroolbark, Victoria
Mooroolbark is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 31 km east of Melbourne's central business district.
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Mount Dandenong, Victoria
Mount Dandenong is both a mountain and a small township/suburb of Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, east from Melbourne's central business district.
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Mount Evelyn, Victoria
Mount Evelyn is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 37 km north-east of Melbourne's central business district.
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Mount Macedon, Victoria
Mount Macedon is a small town north-west of Melbourne in the Australian state of Victoria.
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Mountain Highway
Mountain Highway (also known as Wantirna - Sassafras Road) is an 18 km west–east highway located in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
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Narrow-gauge railway
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than the standard.
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Olinda, Victoria
Olinda is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 36 km east of Melbourne's central business district.
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Partially guyed tower
A partially guyed tower is a tower structure which consists of a free-standing basement, in most cases of concrete or of lattice steel with a guyed mast on the top.
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Port Phillip
Port Phillip (also commonly referred to as Port Phillip Bay or (locally) just The Bay), is a large bay in southern Victoria, Australia; it is the location of Melbourne.
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Puffing Billy Railway
The Puffing Billy Railway is a narrow gauge heritage railway in the Dandenong Ranges in Melbourne, Australia.
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Rainforest
Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with annual rainfall in the case of tropical rainforests between, and definitions varying by region for temperate rainforests.
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Rhyodacite
Rhyodacite is an extrusive volcanic rock intermediate in composition between dacite and rhyolite.
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Sassafras, Victoria
Sassafras is a locality and township within Greater Melbourne, beyond the Melbourne metropolitan area Urban Growth Boundary, 43 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Knox and Shire of Yarra Ranges local government areas.
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Sclerophyll
Sclerophyll is a type of vegetation that has hard leaves, short internodes (the distance between leaves along the stem) and leaf orientation parallel or oblique to direct sunlight.
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Sedimentary rock
Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the deposition and subsequent cementation of that material at the Earth's surface and within bodies of water.
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Selby, Victoria
Selby is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 37 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district.
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Seville East, Victoria
Seville East is a town in Victoria, Australia, 46 km north-east of Melbourne's central business district.
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Seville, Victoria
Seville is a suburb to the east of Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria, Australia, along Warburton Highway.
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Sherbrooke Forest
Sherbrooke Forest lies at an altitude of 220-500 m within the Dandenong Ranges, 40 km east of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia, close to the suburb of Belgrave.
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Silvan, Victoria
Silvan is a town in Victoria, Australia, 40 km east of Melbourne's central business district.
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Snow
Snow refers to forms of ice crystals that precipitate from the atmosphere (usually from clouds) and undergo changes on the Earth's surface.
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Stringybark
A stringybark can be any of the many Eucalyptus species which have thick, fibrous bark.
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Tecoma, Victoria
Tecoma is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 34 km east from Melbourne's central business district.
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The Basin, Victoria
The Basin is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 31 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Knox local government area.
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The Patch, Victoria
The Patch is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 39 km east from Melbourne's central business district.
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Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria
Upper Ferntree Gully is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 32 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Knox and Shire of Yarra Ranges local government areas.
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Upwey, Victoria
Upwey is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, east from Melbourne's central business district.
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Victoria (Australia)
Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.
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Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
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Wandin East, Victoria
Wandin East is a town in Victoria, Australia, 45 km east from Melbourne's central business district.
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Wandin North, Victoria
Wandin North is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 40 km east from Melbourne's central business district.
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Woiwurrung language
Woiwurrung (sometimes spelt Woiwurrong, Woiworung, Wuywurung) is an Indigenous Australian language spoken by the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation of Central Victoria, from Mount Baw Baw in the east to Mount Macedon, Sunbury and Gisborne in the west.
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Woori Yallock Creek
Woori Yallock Creek is a tributary of the Yarra River.
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Wurundjeri
The Wurundjeri are a people of the Indigenous Australian nation of the Wurundjeri language group, in the Kulin alliance.
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You Yangs
The You Yangs are a series of granite ridges that rise to 319m (Flinders Peak) above the Werribee Plain approximately 55 km south-west of Melbourne and 22 km north-east of Geelong, in Victoria, Australia.
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1938 Kyeema crash
The Kyeema airline crash took place on 25 October 1938 when the Australian National Airways Douglas DC-2 Kyeema, tail number VH-UYC, flying from Adelaide to Melbourne, commenced final approach to Essendon Airport through heavy fog and crashed into the western slopes of Mount Dandenong, also known as Mount Corhanwarrabul, killing all 18 on board instantly.
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1996–97 Australian bushfire season
The 1996–97 Australian bushfire season was the season for bushfires in Australia over the summer of 1996–1997.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandenong_Ranges