Ouyen

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Ouyen
Queen Bee Roadhouse Ouyen.jpg
Queen Bee Roadhouse in Ouyen
State : AustraliaAustralia Australia
State : Flag of Victoria (Australia) .svg Victoria
Founded : 1906
Coordinates : 35 ° 4 ′  S , 142 ° 19 ′  E Coordinates: 35 ° 4 ′  S , 142 ° 19 ′  E
Area : 5.7  km²
Residents : 1,045 (2016)
Population density : 183 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : AEST (UTC + 10)
Postal code : 3490
LGA : Mildura Rural City
Ouyen (Victoria)
Ouyen
Ouyen

Ouyen is a small town in the northwest of the Australian state of Victoria . It is 100 km south of Mildura and 441 km northwest of Melbourne at the junction of the Calder Highway (A79) and the Mallee Highway (B12). The small town belongs to the Local Government Area Mildura Rural City and the 2016 census counted 1,045 inhabitants.

history

The area was originally populated by the Wergaia Aboriginal tribe . The name of the city is said to be derived from the wergaia word Wuya-Wuya . Some scientists say it means the pink-eared duck , others say it is a ghost waterhole .

The city developed around the train station, which was built in 1906 on the railway line to Mildura. A post office opened on October 22, 1907. There, this railway line crosses the West Railway Line, which runs parallel to the Mallee Highway. The West Railway is currently in poor condition and is only used to transport grain from the silos in the small settlements between Ouyen and the border with South Australia . The section in Victoria has broad gauge, while the railway line from Pinnaroo to Tailem Bend has already been converted to standard gauge. There are no facilities to track the wagons. This railway line originally served as a freight route between the states. Even the overland used this broad gauge track, while the main route from Melbourne to Adelaide (about Bordertown ) was converted to standard gauge 1995th

Land was sold to private individuals from 1910, most of which was cleared and used as sheep pasture and for growing wheat and oats.

economy

Today Ouyen is the economic center of grain cultivation in the area. During harvest time, the grain is trucked to the port in Portland , where it is loaded onto ships or ground.

administration

Some formerly independent places were incorporated into the city, e.g. B .:

  • Galah (15 km west of town on Mallee Highway, post office from 1911 to 1976 when the railroad came)
  • Galah North (west of town, post office from 1925 to 1927)
  • Tiega (west of the city, post office from 1911 to 1961)
  • Timberoo and Timberoo South (south of town (post office from 1913-1933))
  • Wymlet (north of town, post office from 1912 to 1963)
  • Trinita (north of town, post office from 1925 to 1936)
  • Kiamal (north of town, post office from 1917 to 1980)
  • Cramerton (north of town, post office from 1924 to 1969)
  • Boulka (south of the city, post office from 1921)
  • Bronzewing (south of the city, post office from 1921 to 1967)
  • Nunga (south of town, post office from 1914 to 1967)
  • Gypsum Siding (south of town, post office from 1922 to 1940)
  • Boorongie and Boorongie North (south of town)

Sports

Ouyen has an Australian football team called Ouyen United , which emerged from the two teams Ouyen Rovers (Kiamal, Tiega) and TGP (Tempy, Gorya, Patchewollock) and plays in the Mallee Football League .

Golfers play on the Ouyen Golf Club golf course on Daker Street .

Events

The Great Australian Vanilla Slice Competition has been held in Ouyen since 1998 .

The city also held the Autumn Art Show in April and the Mallee Wildflower Festival in October. In 2003 the Ouyen Raindance was performed there, where 500 women danced naked in a secret place so that it should rain again after a long drought.

The Big Mallee Root is in town . Mallee roots were once important as firewood for the ex-soldiers who settled in Ouyen.

On the second Sunday in February, residents and former residents of each year meet at Fitzroy Gardens in Melbourne.

Trivia

The Australian folk rock band Weddings Parties Anything mentioned Ouyen in their song Hungry Years (1987) on their Dubut album Scorn of the Women. 'Hungry Years' describes wandering harvest workers on their way to Mildura.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics : Ouyen ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 19, 2020.
  2. ^ Driving directions to Mildura VIC . In: Google Maps Australia . Google. Retrieved January 31, 2011.
  3. ^ Driving directions to Melbourne VIC . In: Google Maps Australia . Google. Retrieved January 31, 2011.
  4. ↑ Ouyen . Sydney Morning Herald. February 8, 2004. Retrieved January 6, 2007.
  5. ^ A b Premier Postal History: Post Office List . Retrieved April 11, 2008.
  6. ^ Golf Select: Ouyen . Retrieved May 11, 2009.
  7. ^ Premier announces "The Great Vanilla Slice Triumph" . Premier of Victoria, Jeff Kennett. July 19, 1998. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 6, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dpc.vic.gov.au
  8. ↑ Amy Bainbridge: OUYEN RAIN DANCE (no . ) . In: SA Country Hour Summary . ABC Rural. March 3, 2003. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
  9. ↑ Weddings Parties Anything - ("Hungry Years" tab) . Guitartab. 1987. Retrieved January 11, 2012.