Bonegilla

Bonegilla
Bonegilla Hall
State :  Australia State : Victoria Founded : 1878
Coordinates : 36 ° 8 ′  S , 147 ° 0 ′  E Coordinates: 36 ° 8 ′  S , 147 ° 0 ′  E Area : 61.0  km²
Residents : 693 (2016) Population density : 11 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : AEST (UTC +10) Postal code : 3691 LGA : City of Wodonga
Bonegilla

Bonegilla is a small town with 693 inhabitants in the northeast of the Australian state of Victoria . It is about ten kilometers from Wodonga and over 300 kilometers from Melbourne .

history

The Bonegilla Post Office opened on August 20, 1878 and closed in 1951. The Bonegilla military office was in place from 1940 to 1947 and 1983 to 1998, from which it was relocated to nearby Bandiana .

The development of the place was dependent on the Cudgewa railway line , which opened in 1889 and closed in 1981. The railway line was used to transport building materials to the Snowy Mountains System and immigrants to Bonegilla Migrant Camp from Pier Station on Port Melbourne . The railway line has been dismantled and a section is now used as a bicycle and hiking trail, the High Country Rail Trail , which runs from Wodonga to the end of Lake Hume .

Bonegilla Migrant Camp

The Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Center was used to host immigrants upon their arrival after the end of World War II. The Bonegilla Migrant Camp , operated from 1947 to November 1971, was the largest and longest-running camp for immigrants in Australia, and about 1.5 million immigrants stayed there at times.

photos

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  Bonegilla General Store

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  Entrance to the Latchford Barracks at Bonegilla

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  Bonegilla Migrant Camp, Block 4 (1954)

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  Sculpture in the grounds of the Bonegilla Migrant Camp

Web links

Commons : Bonegilla, Victoria  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• So Much Sky - Bonegilla Reception & Training Center

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Australian Bureau of Statistics : Bonegilla ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
2. ↑ premierpostal.com : Post Office List , accessed October 17, 2011