Identifier: commonwealthofau00brit (find matches)
Title: The commonwealth of Australia; federal handbook, prepared in connection with the eighty-fourth meeting of the British association for the advancement of science, held in Australia, August, 1914
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: British Association for the Advancement of Science. Federal Council in Australia Australia. Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics Knibbs, George Handley, 1858-1929
Subjects: Australia
Publisher: Melbourne : A. J. Mullet, government printer
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nd the main Dividelies the G-reat Valley of Victoria. Towns and Industries.—The rugged east-central portion of Victoria ispractically uninhabited. There are a few small mining townships (Omeo,Bright, etc.), and one or two tourist resorts such as Buffalo ; but, for the rest,it is more profitable to settle in the coastal plains to the south, or in thelower valleys of the Murray tributaries to the north. The Gippsland Lakes—really lagoons formed by dunes drifting acrossthe mouths of the rivers—are favourite resorts of tourists and fishermen. * A senkungsfeld is an area depressed below the general level by trough-faulting. Physical and General Geography of Australia. 101 Bairnsdale, on the Mitchell River, is an important town and railway terminus;Sale, nearer Melbourne, at the western end of the Lake District, is the chieftown in Gippsland. Farming, dairying, and pastoral occupations supportthe people, while the foothills (as at Walhalla) have yielded a considerablequantity of gold.
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Fig. 11.—The topograiihv nl .\l( lliounie and its environs. The high rainfall (4-5 inches) of south-west Gippsland is accountable forthe growth of the giant eucalypts. These are the largest hardwood treesin the world ; some over 320 feet in height have been measured. North of the mountains are small townships which in the east are chieflydevoted to mining (Bcechworth and Yackandandah). Wangaratta, Benalla, 102 Federal Handbook. and Seymour, on the Inter-State railway, are flourishing towns devoted tofarming and pastoral industries generally. The rough country to the southof Benalla was once the haunt of numerous bushrangers, of whom Kellywas perhaps the most notorious. When the Kilmore geocol is passed in our traverse to the west, thecharacter of the country changes considerably. A network of railwayscrosses without difficulty the so-called Dividing Range, and to the north-west sends out the six tentacles which have helped so greatly in developingthe Wimmera and Mallee plains. Balla

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