Warrnambool

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Warrnambool
Flagstaff Hill Museum.jpg
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum in Warrnambool
State : AustraliaAustralia Australia
State : Flag of Victoria (Australia) .svg Victoria
Founded : 1855
Coordinates : 38 ° 22 ′  S , 142 ° 29 ′  E Coordinates: 38 ° 22 ′  S , 142 ° 29 ′  E
Height : 24  m
Area : 45.3  km²
Residents : 30,709 (2016)
Population density : 678 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : AEST (UTC + 10)
Postal code : 3280
LGA : City of Warrnambool
Website :
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Warrnambool is a port city with around 31,000 inhabitants (as of 2016) in the Australian state of Victoria . It is the capital of the City of Warrnambool local administrative area .

The largest city in western Victoria was founded in 1840 as a whale and sealer settlement. Because of the natural harbor, it was well suited for a permanent settlement. The name comes from the language of the Aborigines and was the name for a nearby volcanic cone. A post office was opened in 1849. During the Victorian Gold Rush in the 1850s, the city experienced a boom and the population grew rapidly.

Today Warrnambool lives economically from agriculture and tourism. The place is considered the starting point for trips along the Great Ocean Road east and west to Port Fairy and Portland . The city is at the western end of the most famous part of the Great Ocean Road.

The main attraction is the Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum & Village , a recreated harbor from the Victorian era with buildings and ships from that era. In the adjacent Surf Bay can Südkapern ( Southern Right Whales ), a right whale -Art be observed at calving.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities related to the city

  • Joseph Archibald (1823–1909) founder and first curator of the Warrnambool Museum
  • Airbourne (founded 2001), hard rock band

climate

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Web links

Commons : Warrnambool  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/articles/2329
  2. ↑ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics : Warrnambool ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Accessed in 2020-40-19.