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The accomplishments of Shepparton and other survey ships during the Pacific campaigns generated a wealth of survey and hydrographic data, with one author claiming shortly after the war's end that these areas "are better mapped than the greater part of the Australian mainland, or for that matter, better than many parts of the world which were ...
Shepparton is also home of the Shepparton Art Museum, more commonly known as SAM. SAM houses the world's most significant collection of Australian ceramics, and is home to the biennial Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award and the Indigenous Ceramic Art Award. The museum features the surrealist sculpture Woman and Child by artist Sam Jinks.
Lemnos is a locality in the Goulburn Valley region of Victoria, Australia, on the outskirts of the regional city of Shepparton. At the 2006 census, Lemnos had a population of 369, [2] which had dropped to 246 at the 2016 census. [1] The locality was established in 1927 as a soldier settlement area after the First World War.
Shepperton is mentioned in the novel The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, [58] in which its destruction is described along with nearby settlements. It is also mentioned in the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens , [ 59 ] where Bill Sikes tempts Oliver into visiting a house there, but instead, when they get there, Oliver is dragged on to a ...
Tatura is a town in the Goulburn Valley region of Victoria, Australia, and is situated within the City of Greater Shepparton local government area, 167 kilometres (104 mi) north of the state capital and 18 kilometres (11 mi) west of the regional centre of Shepparton.
In local media, negativity toward post-war Shepparton Albanians sharply decreased and they were depicted as hard-working people with civic participation in the town. [47] In the early 1950s, Shepparton Albanians established their own Albanian Muslim Society and fund-raised in their community, and built Victoria's first mosque in the late 1950s.
This is a list of places on the Victorian Heritage Register in the City of Greater Shepparton in Victoria, Australia. The Victorian Heritage Register is maintained by the Heritage Council of Victoria. The Victorian Heritage Register, as of 2021, lists the following ten state-registered places within the City of Greater Shepparton: [1]
John Furphy (17 June 1842 – 23 September 1920) was an Australian blacksmith credited with inventing the "furphy", a water cart that was used by the Australian army during the first World War. Early life