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Yarrawonga was founded as a village in 1868, [4] [5] with a Post Office being opened on 28 November 1874, [8] and a courthouse the very same year. [7] It was connected by rail to Melbourne in 1886. [4] [7] Yarrawonga was proclaimed a shire in 1891, [4] [5] It was renamed from 'North Yarrawonga Shire' (1891) to 'Yarrawonga Shire' in 1893. [4]
Yarrawonga is an outer northern suburb of Palmerston. It is on the traditional Country and waterways of the Larrakia people. [4] It is 21 km SE of the Darwin City and 2.1 km from Palmerston City. Its Local Government Area is the City of Palmerston. Yarrawonga is named after the Yarrawonga Zoo which was established in the area in 1965.
The Shire of Yarrawonga was a local government area on the Murray River, in the Goulburn Valley region, about 260 kilometres (162 mi) northeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of 626.78 square kilometres (242.0 sq mi), and existed from 1891 until 1994.
The last regular passenger service on the line was between Benalla and Yarrawonga on Saturday 9 December 1978, operated by DERM 56RM. [ 4 ] With the opening of the North East standard gauge line in 1961, [ 5 ] the Oaklands line had standard gauge track at both ends, in addition to the existing broad gauge line via Benalla.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... Yarrawonga South is a locality directly south of Yarrawonga in Northern Victoria.
Geelong's Tom Lonergan played for Yarrawonga before moving to Melbourne and being drafted into the Australian Football League. [3] Former Carlton full forward Brendan Fevola played for Yarrawonga from 2012 until 2015. [4] In the 2018 AFL Draft, Yarrawonga FNC had three players drafted to various AFL clubs: Ely Smith, James Jordon and Finbar O ...
Yarrawonga Park is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, and is located on a peninsula east of the town of Morisset on the western side of Lake Macquarie. History [ edit ]
Yarrawonga Weir Power Station is a hydroelectric power station at Lake Mulwala on the Murray River, Victoria, Australia. Yarrawonga Weir has a generating capacity of 9.5 megawatts (12,700 hp) of electricity. It is a run-of-the-river generator with two Kaplan turbines each with a capacity to generate 4.75 MW. It was commissioned in 1994 and ...