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The proclamation of counties of 1849 was made while Port Phillip District was part of New South Wales, while the others were made after the separation from NSW in 1851, to create the colony of Victoria. Earlier maps of Gippsland area in the eastern part of Victoria show proposed counties of Douro (a title of the Duke of Wellington), Bass ...
The Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) was a government department in Victoria, Australia.. Commencing operation in January 2015, the DELWP was created in the aftermath of the 2014 state election, with Premier Daniel Andrews announcing that the previous Department of Environment and Primary Industries (DEPI) would be renamed.
The spatial data used in the new maps is Vicmap Topographic data, which includes Vicmap Digital Framework Datasets along with other key government datasets. Vicmap data is the authoritative spatial data for the State of Victoria and is the foundation of Victoria's primary mapping and geographic information systems. [1]
1891 German map of south-eastern Australia showing many of the divisions. Some other states were also divided into land divisions and land districts; in the nineteenth century, land districts sometimes served as the region name for parts of the state where counties had not been proclaimed yet.
Further responsibilities of the Surveyor-General were transferred to Land Victoria business units, viz. Land Information Group (mapping, geodetic, survey control and calibration standards) and Land Registry (Crown Land Records). Land Victoria was a new Division, under the then Department of Natural Resources and Environment.
Vicnames, place name details; Research aids, Victoria 1910; Map of the Wonnangatta region in Victoria showing county boundaries, parishes, available agricultural and grazing land, available pastoral land, available land to be sold at auction and timber reserves 1893, Dept. of Lands and Survey. held at the National Library of Australia
Map of Local Government Areas in Victoria. This is a list of locality names and populated place names in the state of Victoria, Australia, outside the Melbourne metropolitan area. It is organised by region from the south-west of the state to the east and, for convenience, is sectioned by Local Government Area (LGA).
The location of Victoria in relation to the rest of Australia. 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 km 2 (87,817 sq mi); the second-most-populated state (after New South Wales), with a population of over 6.7 million; [1] and the most densely populated state in Australia (29.5 ...