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Victoria, commonly abbreviated as Vic, is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state (after Tasmania), with a land area of 227,444 km2 (87,817 sq mi); the second-most-populated state (after New South Wales), with a population of over 6.9 million; and the most densely populated state in Australia (30.6 per km2). Victoria's economy is the second-largest among Australian states and is highly diversified, with service sectors predominating.
Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Great Australian Bight portion of the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate coastal and central regions to the Victorian Alps in the northeast and the semi-arid northwest.
Named in honour of Queen Victoria, Victoria was separated from New South Wales and established as a separate Crown colony in 1851, achieving responsible government in 1855. The Victorian gold rush in the 1850s and 1860s significantly increased Victoria's population and wealth. By the time of Australian Federation in 1901, Melbourne had become the largest city in Australasia, and was the seat of Federal government until Canberra became the national capital in 1927. The state continued to grow strongly through various periods of the 20th and 21st centuries due to high levels of international and interstate migration. Melbourne hosts a number of museums, art galleries, and theatres; in 2016 a sports marketing company named it the world's sporting capital. (Full article...)
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Shepparton (/ˈʃɛpərtən/) (Yortayorta: Kanny-goopna) is a city located on the floodplain of the Goulburn River in northern Victoria, Australia, approximately 181 kilometres (112 mi) north-northeast of Melbourne. As of June 2018 the estimated population of Shepparton, including the adjacent town of Mooroopna, was 51,631.
It began as a sheep station and river crossing in the mid-19th century, before undergoing a major transformation as a railway town. Today it is an agricultural and manufacturing centre, and the centre of the Goulburn Valley irrigation system, one of the largest centres of irrigation in Australia. It is also a major regional service city and the seat of local government and civic administration for the City of Greater Shepparton, which includes the surrounding towns of Tatura, Merrigum, Mooroopna, Murchison, Dookie, Toolamba and Grahamvale.
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- ... that Genevieve Beacom became the first woman to pitch in the Australian Baseball League when she made her debut for the Melbourne Aces in 2022?
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- ... that Cheok Hong Cheong sold bananas for a decade, after which he became superintendent of the Church of England of Melbourne?
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- Lincoln Square (Melbourne)
- Awakenings Festival - Horsham
- Central Goulburn Irrigation Area
- Rochester Irrigation Area
- Wimmera Mallee Pipeline Project
- Heytesbury fires - (1886)
- Victoria bushfire season 1969 - Lara (1969)
- Barwon (region) - sub region of Barwon South West (region)
- Great South Coast (region) - sub region of Barwon South West (region)
- Loddon Campaspe (region) - sub region of Loddon Mallee
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- Aura Vale Lake Park (part of Cardinia Reservoir Parks)
- Barwon Bluff Marine Sanctuary
- Beechworth Historic Park
- Beware Reef Marine Sanctuary
- Birrarrung Park (part of Yarra Valley Parklands)
- Candlebark Park (part of Yarra Valley Parklands)
- Cape Liptrap Coastal Park
- Cardinia Creek Parklands
- Cardinia Reservoir Parks
- Corner Inlet Marine and Coastal Park
- Eagle Rock Marine Sanctuary
- Jawbone Marine Sanctuary
- Lake Tyers State Park
- Longridge Park Camp (part of Yarra Valley Parklands)
- Marengo Reefs Marine Sanctuary
- Maribyrnong Valley Parklands
- Maroondah Reservoir Park
- Merri Marine Sanctuary
- Mushroom Reef Marine Sanctuary
- Nooramunga Marine and Coastal Park
- Nortons Park (part of Dandenong Valley Parklands)
- Point Cooke Marine Sanctuary - part covered in Point Cook Coastal Park#Marine
- Point Danger Marine Sanctuary
- Point Gellibrand Heritage Park
- Ricketts Point Marine Sanctuary
- Shallow Inlet Marine and Coastal Park
- Shepherds Bush (Victoria) (part of Dandenong Valley Parklands)
- Silvan Reservoir Park
- Steiglitz Historic Park
- Sugarloaf Reservoir Parks
- The Arches Marine Sanctuary
- Tirhatuan Park (part of Dandenong Valley Parklands)
- Wabba Wilderness Park
- Wilsons Promontory Marine Park
- Wimmera River Heritage Area Park
- Woodlands Historic Park
- Yarra Flats Park (part of Yarra Valley Parklands)
- Yarra Valley Parklands
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- List of schools in Victoria
- Mount Rothwell Biodiversity Interpretation Centre
- Melbourne Workers Theatre
- City West Water
- Belgrave Lantern Festival
- Red Tuesday bushfires - (1898)
- 1925–26 Victorian bushfire season - Black Sunday (1926)
- Linton Bushfire - (1998)
- 2003 Eastern Victorian alpine bushfires
- Mount Lubra bushfire - (2006)
- 2006–07 Eastern Victoria Great Divide bushfires
- Goulburn (region) - sub region of Hume (region)
- Ovens Murray (region) - sub region of Hume (region)
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