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Wonthaggi / w ɒ n ˈ θ æ ɡ i / is a ... Wonthaggi celebrated its centenary in 2010 and a book [10] presenting interviews with local residents about the town ...
Wonthaggi was constituted under the Wonthaggi Borough Act 1910, by the Government of Victoria on 26 January 1911. The Local Government Act 1903 stipulated that boroughs could not exceed 23 square kilometres (9 sq mi) in size, and that the longest straight-line distance between boundaries could not exceed 9.6 kilometres (6.0 mi) – neither was true of Wonthaggi.
The site is located adjacent to the former railway line to Melbourne via Wonthaggi. [2] The State Coal Mine and the town of Wonthaggi came into being in 1909 to supply coal for the Victorian Railways. [3] Rising from its beginnings as a makeshift "Tent Town", Wonthaggi quickly grew to the thriving town we know today. [4]
The Wonthaggi railway line is a closed railway line located in South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. Its primary purpose was to serve the State Coal Mine but the line also provided passenger and general goods services.
Wonthaggi was a railway station located in the town of Wonthaggi, Victoria, Australia. Built to serve the town as well as the State Coal Mine , the station was the official terminus station of the Wonthaggi line, but two short branch lines continued from the station, leading to the Kirrak and Eastern Area mine extensions.
The Wonthaggi Formation was deposited within Gippsland Basin, which formed part of a extensional rift valley system between Australia and Antarctica. The lithology primarily consists of fluvially deposited siliciclastics derived from volcanic rocks of the Whitsunday Silicic Large Igneous Province to the East, with suggestions that the sediments either originated from braided river and sheet ...
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The Shire is governed and administered by the Bass Coast Shire Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is the council headquarters in Wonthaggi, with other service centres located in Cowes, Grantville and Inverloch. The Shire is named after its most precious asset, the coasts of Bass Strait and Western Port.