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Western District (Victoria)

Index Western District (Victoria)

The Western District comprises western regions of the Australian state of Victoria. [1]

113 relations: Alcoa, Allambie, New South Wales, Allansford, Victoria, Aluminium smelting, Andisol, Apollo Bay, Ararat, Victoria, Australia, Australian native police, Ballarat, Barwon South West, Bass Strait, Beaufort, Victoria, Beeac, Birregurra, Black Thursday bushfires, Budj Bim, Camperdown, Victoria, Casterton, Victoria, Charles Tyers, Cobden, Victoria, Colac, Victoria, Coleraine, Victoria, Colonial Office, Condah, Crown land, Derrinallum, Division of Wannon, Dunkeld, Victoria, Economic geography, Eel, Electoral district of Lowan, Electoral district of Polwarth, Electoral district of Ripon, Electoral district of South-West Coast, England, Federal Court of Australia, Geelong, George Augustus Robinson, Goldfields region of Victoria, Grampians (region), Grampians National Park, Great Ocean Road, Great Otway National Park, Gunditjmara, Hamilton, Victoria, Heywood, Victoria, High Court of Australia, Hopkins River, John Batman, ..., Kanawinka Geopark, Koroit, Kulin, Lady Julia Percy Island, Lake Bolac, Victoria, Learmonth, Victoria, Linton, Victoria, Lismore, Victoria, Lorne, Victoria, Macarthur, Victoria, Melbourne, Merino, Victoria, Microsoft Word, Mission (station), Missionary, Mortlake, Victoria, Moyston, Victoria, Nelson, Victoria, Noorat, Onion, Penshurst, Victoria, Policy, Port Campbell, Port Fairy, Port Phillip, Portland Guardian, Portland, Victoria, Potato, Purnim, Victoria, Regions of Victoria, Richard Bourke, Rural City of Ararat, Shire of Glenelg, Shire of Moyne, Shire of Southern Grampians, Skipton, Victoria, Snake Valley, Victoria, Soil, South Australia, Southern Ocean, Speculation, Squatting, States and territories of Australia, Supreme Court of Victoria, Terang, The Twelve Apostles (Victoria), Thomas Mitchell (explorer), Timboon, Van Diemen's Land, Victoria (Australia), Victorian Aborigines, Village, Volcano, Warrnambool, Werribee River, Wheat, Willaura, William Lonsdale (colonist), Wimmera, Woodchips, Wool, Yambuk, Yarra River. Expand index (63 more) »

Alcoa

Alcoa Corporation (from Aluminum Company of America) is an American industrial corporation.

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Allambie, New South Wales

Allambie is a location in the Northern Beaches Council local government area, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Allansford, Victoria

Allansford is a town in the Western District of Victoria, Australia.

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Aluminium smelting

Aluminium smelting is the process of extracting aluminium from its oxide, alumina, generally by the Hall-Héroult process.

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Andisol

In USDA soil taxonomy, andisols are soils formed in volcanic ash and defined as soils containing high proportions of glass and amorphous colloidal materials, including allophane, imogolite and ferrihydrite.

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Apollo Bay

Apollo Bay is a coastal town in southwestern Victoria, Australia.

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Ararat, Victoria

Ararat is a city in south-west Victoria, Australia, about west of Melbourne, on the Western Highway on the eastern slopes of the Ararat Hills and Cemetery Creek valley between Victoria's Western District and the Wimmera.

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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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Australian native police

Australian native police units, consisting of Aboriginal troopers under the command usually of a single white officer, existed in various forms in all Australian mainland colonies during the nineteenth and, in some cases, into the twentieth centuries.

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Ballarat

Ballarat is a city located on the Yarrowee River in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia.

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Barwon South West

The Barwon South West is an economic rural region located in the southwestern part of Victoria, Australia.

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Bass Strait

Bass Strait is a sea strait separating Tasmania from the Australian mainland, specifically the state of Victoria.

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Beaufort, Victoria

Beaufort is a town in Victoria, Australia.

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Beeac

Beeac is a town in the Western District of Victoria, Australia.

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Birregurra

Birregurra is a town in Victoria, Australia approximately south-west of Melbourne.

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Black Thursday bushfires

The Black Thursday bushfires were a devastating series of fires that swept the state of Victoria, Australia, on 6 February 1851.

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Budj Bim

Budj Bim or Mount Eccles is an extinct volcano near Macarthur in southwestern Victoria, Australia.

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Camperdown, Victoria

Camperdown is a historically significant rural town in southwestern Victoria, Australia, west of the state capital, Melbourne.

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Casterton, Victoria

Casterton is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on the Glenelg Highway, 42 kilometres east of the South Australian border, in the Shire of Glenelg.

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Charles Tyers

Captain Charles James Tyers RN FRSV (13 September 1806–20 September 1870) was a 19th-century Australian surveyor and explorer, and the Commissioner of Crown Lands for Portland (1841) and Gippsland (1844).

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Cobden, Victoria

Cobden is a town located 200 kilometres southwest of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia named in honour of Richard Cobden.

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Colac, Victoria

Colac is a small city in the Western District of Victoria, Australia, approximately 150 kilometres south-west of Melbourne on the southern shore of Lake Colac and the surrounding volcanic plains, approximately inland from Bass Strait.

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Coleraine, Victoria

Coleraine is a town in Victoria, Australia on the Glenelg Highway, west of the state capital, Melbourne and north-west of Hamilton in the Shire of Southern Grampians local government area.

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Colonial Office

The Colonial Office was a government department of the Kingdom of Great Britain and later of the United Kingdom, first created to deal with the colonial affairs of British North America but needed also to oversee the increasing number of colonies of the British Empire.

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Condah

Condah is a small town in south west Victoria, Australia and is located on the Henty Highway north of Heywood.

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Crown land

Crown land, also known as royal domain or demesne, is a territorial area belonging to the monarch, who personifies the Crown.

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Derrinallum

Derrinallum is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on the Hamilton Highway, in the Corangamite Shire.

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Division of Wannon

The Division of Wannon is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria.

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Dunkeld, Victoria

Dunkeld is a town in Victoria, Australia, at the southern end of the Grampians National Park, in the Shire of Southern Grampians.

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Economic geography

Economic geography is the study of the location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities across the world.

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Eel

An eel is any ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes, which consists of four suborders, 20 families, 111 genera and about 800 species.

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Electoral district of Lowan

The Electoral district of Lowan is a rural Victorian Legislative Assembly (Lower House) electoral district of the Victorian Parliament.

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Electoral district of Polwarth

The Electoral district of Polwarth is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.

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Electoral district of Ripon

Ripon is a single member electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.

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Electoral district of South-West Coast

The Electoral district of South-West Coast is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Federal Court of Australia

The Federal Court of Australia is an Australian superior court of record which has jurisdiction to deal with most civil disputes governed by federal law (with the exception of family law matters), along with some summary (less serious) criminal matters.

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Geelong

Geelong is a port city located on Corio Bay and the Barwon River, in the state of Victoria, Australia.Geelong is south-west of the state capital, Melbourne.

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George Augustus Robinson

George Augustus Robinson (22 March 1791 – 18 October 1866) was a builder and untrained preacher.

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Goldfields region of Victoria

The Goldfields region of Victoria is a region commonly used but typically defined in both historical geography and tourism geography (in particular heritage tourism).

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Grampians (region)

The Grampians is an economic rural region located in the western part of Victoria, Australia.

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Grampians National Park

The Grampians National Park (also Gariwerd), commonly referred to as The Grampians, is a national park located in the Grampians region of Victoria, Australia.

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Great Ocean Road

The Great Ocean Road is an Australian National Heritage listed stretch of road along the south-eastern coast of Australia between the Victorian cities of Torquay and Allansford.

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Great Otway National Park

The Great Otway National Park, located in the Barwon South West region of Victoria, Australia.

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Gunditjmara

The Gunditjmara, also known as the Dhauwurd wurrung, are an Indigenous Australian people of southwestern Victoria.

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Hamilton, Victoria

Hamilton is a large town in south-western Victoria, Australia, at the intersection of the Glenelg Highway and the Henty Highway.

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Heywood, Victoria

Heywood is a town on the Fitzroy River in the Australian state of Victoria.

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High Court of Australia

The High Court of Australia is the supreme court in the Australian court hierarchy and the final court of appeal in Australia.

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Hopkins River

The Hopkins River, a perennial river of the Glenelg Hopkins catchment, is located in the Western District of Victoria, Australia.

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John Batman

John Batman (21 January 18016 May 1839) was an Australian grazier, entrepreneur and explorer.

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Kanawinka Geopark

The former Kanawinka Geopark is situated along a structurally controlling geological fault of the same name that extends from the Naracoorte Caves in South Australia into Western Victoria, before disappearing offshore at Portland.

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Koroit

Koroit is a small rural town in western Victoria, Australia a few kilometres north of the Princes Highway, north-west of Warrnambool and west of Melbourne.

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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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Lady Julia Percy Island

Lady Julia Percy Island, also known by its Aboriginal name Deen Maar or Dhinmar, lies off the coast, in the Barwon South West region of Victoria, Australia in Bass Strait.

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Lake Bolac, Victoria

Lake Bolac is a town in the Western District region of Victoria, Australia, in the Rural City of Ararat, west of Ballarat.

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Learmonth, Victoria

Learmonth is a picturesque township, located in Central Victoria, Australia, west of the state capital Melbourne, and 23 km North West of the regional city centre of Ballarat.

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Linton, Victoria

Linton is a town in Victoria, Australia, off Glenelg Highway.

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Lismore, Victoria

Lismore is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on the Hamilton Highway west of Melbourne.

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Lorne, Victoria

Lorne is a seaside town on Louttit Bay in Victoria, Australia.

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Macarthur, Victoria

Macarthur is a town in the Western District of Victoria, Australia on the Hamilton-Port Fairy Road.

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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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Merino, Victoria

Merino is a town in the Western District of Victoria, Australia.

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Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word (or simply Word) is a word processor developed by Microsoft.

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Mission (station)

A religious mission or mission station is a location for missionary work.

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Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to proselytize and/or perform ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

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Mortlake, Victoria

Mortlake is a town in the Western District of Victoria, Australia on the Hamilton Highway, north-east of Warrnambool.

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Moyston, Victoria

Moyston is a town in the Western District region of Victoria, Australia, near the Grampians mountain range.

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Nelson, Victoria

Nelson is a small fishing town in Victoria, Australia.

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Noorat

Noorat is a small township in southwestern Victoria, Australia.

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Onion

The onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.

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Penshurst, Victoria

Penshurst is a town in Victoria, Australia.

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Policy

A policy is a deliberate system of principles to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes.

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Port Campbell

Port Campbell is a coastal town in Victoria, Australia.

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Port Fairy

Port Fairy is a coastal town in south-western Victoria, Australia.

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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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Portland Guardian

The Portland Guardian was a weekly newspaper published between 1842 and 1964 in the seaport town of Portland, Victoria, Australia.

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Portland, Victoria

Portland is a small city in Victoria, Australia, and is the oldest European settlement in the state.

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Potato

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial nightshade Solanum tuberosum.

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Purnim, Victoria

Purnim is a township in Victoria, Australia.

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Regions of Victoria

The regions of Victoria vary according to the different ways that the Australian state of Victoria is divided into distinct geographic regions.

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Richard Bourke

General Sir Richard Bourke, KCB (4 May 1777 – 12 August 1855) was an Irish-born British Army officer who served as Governor of New South Wales from 1831 to 1837.

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Rural City of Ararat

The Rural City of Ararat is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the western part of the state.

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Shire of Glenelg

The Shire of Glenelg is a local government area in the Barwon South West region of Victoria, Australia, located in the south-western part of the state.

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Shire of Moyne

The Shire of Moyne is a local government area in the Barwon South West region of Victoria, Australia, located in the south-western part of the state.

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Shire of Southern Grampians

The Shire of Southern Grampians is a local government area (LGA) in the Barwon South West region of Victoria, Australia, located in the south-western part of the state.

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Skipton, Victoria

Skipton is a town in the Western District of Victoria, Australia.

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Snake Valley, Victoria

Snake Valley is a town in central Western Victoria, Australia, on, west of Ballarat and west of Melbourne, in the Shire of Pyrenees.

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Soil

Soil is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support life.

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South Australia

South Australia (abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

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Southern Ocean

The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean or the Austral Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the World Ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica.

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Speculation

Speculation is the purchase of an asset (a commodity, goods, or real estate) with the hope that it will become more valuable at a future date.

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Squatting

Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use.

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States and territories of Australia

Australia (officially known as the Commonwealth of Australia) is a federation of six states, together with ten federal territories.

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Supreme Court of Victoria

The Supreme Court of Victoria is the superior court for the State of Victoria, Australia.

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Terang

Terang is a town in the Western District of Victoria, Australia.

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The Twelve Apostles (Victoria)

The Twelve Apostles is a collection of limestone stacks off the shore of the Port Campbell National Park, by the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia.

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Thomas Mitchell (explorer)

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (15 June 1792 – 5 October 1855), surveyor and explorer of south-eastern Australia, was born at Grangemouth in Stirlingshire, Scotland.

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Timboon

Timboon is a town in the Western District of Victoria, Australia.

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Van Diemen's Land

Van Diemen's Land was the original name used by most Europeans for the island of Tasmania, now part of Australia.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Victorian Aborigines

Victorian Aborigines, the indigenous Australians of Victoria, Australia, occupied the land for tens of thousands of years prior to European settlement.

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Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, with a population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand.

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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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Warrnambool

Warrnambool is a regional centre and former port city on the south-western coast of Victoria, Australia.

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Werribee River

The Werribee River is a perennial river of the Port Phillip catchment that is located on the plain west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Wheat

Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain which is a worldwide staple food.

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Willaura

Willaura is a town in western Victoria, Australia in the Rural City of Ararat local government area, west of the state capital, Melbourne.

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William Lonsdale (colonist)

William Lonsdale (2 or 21 October 1799 – 28 March 1864) supervised the founding of the official settlement at Port Phillip (later named Melbourne) from 1836 and went on to serve under the Superintendent La Trobe from 1839 to 1854.

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Wimmera

The Wimmera is a region of the Australian state of Victoria.

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Woodchips

Woodchips are small to medium sized pieces of wood formed by cutting or chipping larger pieces of wood such as trees, branches, logging residues, stumps, roots, and wood waste.

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Wool

Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and other animals, including cashmere and mohair from goats, qiviut from muskoxen, angora from rabbits, and other types of wool from camelids.

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Yambuk

Yambuk is a town in Victoria, Australia.

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Yarra River

The Yarra River or historically, the Yarra Yarra River, (Aboriginal: Berrern, Birr-arrung, Bay-ray-rung, Birarang, Birrarung, and Wongete) is a perennial river in east-central Victoria, Australia.

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References

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