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The name "Wonthaggi" is an Australian Aboriginal name meaning "home" from the Boonwurrung (south-central Kulin). It was used in the area some time before 1 August 1910 when the town was founded. It was used in the area some time before 1 August 1910 when the town was founded.
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.
Bruthen – a Celtic place name used in Britain (now named Breidden), between Shropshire, England and Powys, Wales; also a Scott's Gaelic word meaning striped or checked; and in Cornish the word means freckled or speckled. Bodalla – a corruption of "boat alley". Narrabeen – a corruption of "narrow bean". Traralgon
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]
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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 ...
The British husband of a Thai woman whose body was found in the Yorkshire Dales more than 20 years ago has been arrested on suspicion of her murder.
Orangutans are arboreal, meaning they primarily live in the trees. There are three sub-species of orangutans, including the Bornean orangutan, the Sumatran orangutan, and the Tapanuli orangutan ...