Latrobe City
| City of Latrobe | |
 Location of Latrobe City in Victoria |
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 Australia
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| State : |
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| Administrative headquarters: | Morwell |
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| Area : | 1,425.6 km² |
| Residents : | 73,257 (2016) |
| Population density : | 51 inhabitants per km² |
| Wards : | 9 |
Coordinates: 38 ° 14 ' S , 146 ° 24' E
Latrobe City is a local administrative area (LGA) in the Australian state of Victoria , which also has city status. The area is 1425.6 km² and has about 73,000 inhabitants.
Latrobe is about 150 km east of the capital Melbourne in southeast Victoria and includes six major localities: Boolarra, Churchill, Yallourn North, Moe , Traralgon and Morwell. The City Council is located in Morwell in central Latrobe.
Latrobe City is located in the Latrobe Valley , the center of lignite mining and power generation in Victoria. The coal-fired power plants in Loy Yang , Hazelwood, Morwell and Yallourn are among the largest in Australia. Loy Yang alone covers a third of the state's electricity consumption. The disadvantage of generating electricity from lignite, however, is the high CO 2 emissions. The Hazelwood Power Station , the power plant according to the WWF, in which all the leading industrial nations, the largest share of CO compared to the power plants 2 is applicable. Hazelwood alone is responsible for over 5% of greenhouse gas emissions in all of Australia.
administration
The Latrobe City Council has nine members who are elected by residents of the nine wards. These nine districts are: Burnett, Dunbar, Farley, Firmin, Galbraith, Gunyah, Merton, Rintoull, and Tanjil. The mayor of the council is also recruited from among the councilors.
Web links
- Official site (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics : Latrobe (C) (Vic.) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
