Wangaratta Rural City

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Rural City of Wangaratta
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Location Wangaratta Rural City in Victoria
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State : Australia Australia
State : Flag of Victoria (Australia) .svg Victoria
Administrative headquarters: Wangaratta
Dates and numbers
Area : 3,645.1  km²
Residents : 18,566 (2016)
Population density : 5.1 inhabitants per km²

Coordinates: 36 ° 22 ′  S , 146 ° 19 ′  E The Rural City of Wangaratta is a local administrative area (LGA) in the Australian state of Victoria around the city of Wangaratta . The area is 3,645.1 km² and has about 28,300 inhabitants.

The rural community of Wangaratta is located about 230 km from the capital Melbourne in northeast Victoria and includes the following villages: Boorhaman, Bobinawarrah, Boralma, Boweya, Bowmans Forest, Bowser, Byawatha, Carboor, Cheshunt, Docker, Dockers Plains, Edi, Eldorado, Everton, Glenrowan, Greta, Hansonville, Killawarra, King Valley, Laceby, Londrigan, Markwood, Meadow Creek, Milawa, Moyhu, Murmungee, Myrrhee, Oxley, Oxley Flats, Peechelba, Rose River, Springhurst, Tarrawingee, Tolmie, Wangaratta , Wabonga, Waldara, Wangandary, Whitfield, Whitlands and Whorouly. The seat of the Rural City Council is in the city of Wangaratta in the northern half of the LGA, which has about 18,600 inhabitants.

Wangaratta is located on the Hume Highway between the cities of Melbourne and Sydney and in the mountainous northeast of Victoria close to the Falls Creek ski areas , the largest in the state, and Mount Hotham , the highest in Australia.

Ned Kelly statue in Glenrowan

In the area of ​​the LGA is the King Valley with the floodplain of the King River , the Ovens River and their tributaries, which makes Wangaratta a fertile, agricultural region. Hops and berries are grown here. Successful tobacco cultivation after the Second World War is increasingly being replaced by viticulture.

Historically, the region is known not only for its gold rush past, which can be visited in the well-known ghost town of Eldorado , but also for its connection to the national hero Ned Kelly . In Glenrowan he had taken 60 hostages in a hotel while on the run from the police. His three accomplices were killed in a lengthy shootout, he himself wounded and arrested and later executed in Melbourne. A well-known, several meters high Ned Kelly statue with rifle and iron mask reminds of the end of the criminal.

administration

The Wangaratta Rural City Council has seven members who are elected by LGA residents. Wangaratta is not divided into districts. The mayor of the council is also recruited from among the councilors.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics : Wangaratta (RC) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
  2. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics : Wangaratta ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved May 13, 2020.