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The name of Shepparton is derived from the surname of one of the area's first European settlers, Sherbourne Sheppard, and not, as is sometimes imagined, from Shepperton, England. [ 6 ] The Yorta Yorta name for the area is 'Kanny-goopna' with 'goopna' meaning 'deep waterholes by which people camped'.
The city is governed and administered by the Greater Shepparton City Council. Its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Shepparton; it also has a service centre located in Tatura. The city is named after the main urban settlement located in the centre of the LGA, that is Shepparton, which ...
People from the town of Shepparton in Victoria, Australia. With reference to the town in Surrey, England, see Category:People from Shepperton. Subcategories.
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The Shepparton United Football Netball Club, nicknamed the Demons, is an Australian rules football and netball based in the city of Shepparton in northern Victoria. The club teams currently compete in the Goulburn Valley League .
Briggs was born on 28 August 1986 [1] and grew up with his family in Shepparton, a city in rural Victoria, Australia. He is an Aboriginal Australian of the Yorta Yorta people and the tribe name is tattooed on his forearms. [2] His father was from Cummeragunja. [3]
The Shire of Shepparton was a local government area in the Goulburn Valley region, about 180 kilometres (112 mi) north of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of 927.49 square kilometres (358.1 sq mi), and existed from 1884 until 1994.
Started in 1917 by a group of fruit growers in Victoria's Goulburn Valley as a cooperative which they named the Shepparton Fruit Preserving Co. Ltd. The company began operations in February 1918, canning pears, peaches and nectarines under the brand name of SPC. SPC was incorporated as a public listed company in 1912, and Ardmona opened in 1921 ...