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This website's purpose:

The purpose of this website is provide a list of all the current towns and localities in the state of Victoria, Australia, and also those that now no longer exist or have had a previous existence under a different name.  Longitude, Latitude and the current shire is included for each town/locality.

Explanations:

The following information is given for each town entry
- In the left hand column is the town name. Some minor information may be included here (e.g. as "since 1875 called ..." or "see ...." if it is close to a much larger town). If two towns with the same name exist, there will be a  reference to a nearby town to identify each one. In some cases square brackets are used to indicate variations of a name (e.g. Bendoc[k] indicates that it is spelt with and without the 'k', and "Berlin [Flat]" means that it is sometimes called "Berlin" and sometimes "Berlin Flat").  Or an oblique "/" is used to indicate the town has two names (e.g. "Escort Creek/Valley" means it was known as both "Escort Creek" and "Escort Valley". Possessive apostrophes have not been used (e.g. Allan's Flat is entered as Allans Flat) but other instances of apostrophes (e.g. O'Keefe) are used.
- The second column show the shire name where the town is currently located. This may be helpful in trying to locate rate books, etc. Some localities (not towns) extend over a number of shires (Big Desert is a good example). The shire names used  are those introduced in the early 1990s, when amalgamation of shires occurred. They do not reflect the shire names and boundaries in existence from the mid 1800s.
- The next two columns show the longitude (east of Greenwich, England) and latitude (south of the equator) in degrees and thousandths of a degree (i.e. minutes and seconds are not used). A tilde symbol "~" is used to indicate the values are approximate. Normal values should be accurate to about a kilometre or so, and approximate figures are accurate to about 5 kilometres. The VicRoads Country Directlory is an excellent source to locate a no-longer-existing town using latitude and longitude.

Acknowledgements:

I gratefully acknowledge the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment (was Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment (DNRE) when this project first started) who provided the initial database from which this list was derived. Those names were (at the time of initial preparation of this website) the 'standard' names used for postal/planning/emergency services, etc. To view the official DSE site click here.

'Non-standard', older or now non-existent names (and their locations) have been derived from numerous other sources including:
VicRoads Country Directory,
Place Names of Victoria by Les Blake,
Digging For Gold by Helen Doxford Harris,
and miscellaneous maps, various individuals and list owners.

Corrections/Additions:

If anybody has an additional location, spelling variation, or can more accurately locate a town, please email me (Peter).

Last updated on 08 September 2021