The administrative centre for the City of Latrobe in Gippsland mixes vast industry with the serene natural beauty of lakes, nature-rich bushland and the humid forests of the Strzelecki Ranges. This is Victoria‘s main energy production centre, home to the largest open-cut coalmines in Australia, accompanied by the cooling towers and stacks of coal-fired power …
As it meanders across Australia’s inland plains the Murray River is the natural boundary between the states of Victoria and New South Wales. One city on the north bank is Albury, which forms a cross-river conurbation with its twin, Wodonga, on the Victoria side. Albury grew up as a transport hub, at the point where …
Tasmania’s northern second city is at the head of the long Tamar River estuary. Launceston has a few things you don’t come across very often, like an awesome river gorge a stone’s throw from the CBD, and a city park with an island inhabited by macaques. The Cataract Gorge can be traversed via a record-breaking …
In the northeast of Victoria, Wodonga is one of a pair of cities on the Murray River and faces off against its sibling Albury on the New South Wales side. Near Wodonga you can visit the largest military museum in the country, and learn how the foundations for modern Australia were laid at the site …
An hour south of Sydney, Wollongong is a coastal city bursting with beaches, magnificent natural scenery and inspiration for days out. The city is jostled onto a natural coastal plain by the sandstone Illawara Escarpment, climbing to several hundred metres just inland. A few attractions on this list take advantage of the widescreen views from …
The story of Australia’s third-largest inland city is tangled up in the Victorian gold rush of the mid-19th century. Gold was first discovered in the area in 1851 and this triggered a frenzy that would burn for many decades due to the sheer wealth of the alluvial deposits. The money created by the gold rush …
Set in Victoria‘s Gippsland Region, Traralgon is the fastest-growing urban centre in the Latrobe Valley. The city grew up in the late-19th century at a railway junction, and one of those disused lines has become a rail trail guiding cyclists and walkers over more than 60 kilometres of rural Gippsland. Coalmining is the big industry …
Victoria’s second-largest city is only an hour out of Melbourne. Geelong is one of Australia’s busiest ports, growing quickly in the middle of the 19th century to serve the Western District’s wool industry and the Victorian Gold Rush. The Port of Geelong continues to thrive, but during the 20th century the city’s waterfront on Corio …
On the main ridge of the Great Dividing Range, Toowoomba is about 130 kilometres west of Brisbane in Queensland. You’ll often hear Toowoomba called The Garden City, and with good reason. The mild year-round climate and fertile volcanic soils create an extravaganza of colour and fragrance every spring. And to celebrate, the ten-day Carnival of …
Near the remote centre of Victoria is a city that sprouted all of a sudden during the Victorian gold rush of the mid-19th century. Bendigo is on one of the richest goldfields in the world, and its mines have produced more than 780,000kg of gold. Among the tens of thousands of hopeful diggers that showed …