Shire of Wellington
- 38.1147.06666666667Koordinaten: 38 ° 6 ' S, 147 ° 4' O Wellington Shire is a Local Government Area ( LGA) in the Australian state of Victoria. The area is 10,400 km ² and has about 40,000 inhabitants.
Wellington is located in the south-east Victoria in the Gippsland region about 230 km east of the capital, Melbourne and includes, among others, the following localities a: Alberton, Balook, Boisdale, Briagalong, Cowwarr, Dargo, Glenmaggie, Coongulla Golden Beach, Paradise Beach, Gormandale, Heyfield, Holland Landing, Licola, Loch Sport, Longford, Maffra, Munro, Newry, Port Albert, Rosedale, Sale, Seaspray, Stratford, Tinamba, Woodside, Woodside Beach and Yarram. The seat of the City Council is located in Sale in the southern half of the LGA.
First settlements were established in Wellington in the 30s of the 19th century. Towns grew in the years of the gold rush in eastern Gippsland, as they acted in particular in the days before the railroad as intermediate stops on the way to Melbourne.
Wellington has many scenic and tourist attractions. Thus, the coastal towns of Seaspray, Golden Beach and Loch Sport are on Ninety Mile Beach Victoria, with over 151 km of the longest uninterrupted sand beach in Australia. Several national parks are in the area of the area, the Lakes National Park with the Gippsland Lakes, including Lake Guthridge, Lake Guyatt, the reservoir Lake Glenmaggie and Lake Wellington, the largest of the lakes are. To the north, the southern slopes of the Great Dividing Range and part of the Alpine National Parks followed by Victoria, the largest national park in the state. Here there is mainly mountainous and wooded country.
In Longford there is also the capital of the oil and natural gas production in Victoria, which is promoted in the Bass Strait off the coast. An explosion in the central area of the refinery at Langford and two days lasting fire laid in 1998 the gas supply in Victoria lame and led to weeks of failures in business and industry and private households throughout the state.
Management
The Wellington Shire Council has nine members, who are elected by the residents of the LGA. Wellington is not divided into districts. From the circle of Councillor also the Mayor ( Mayor ) of the Council recruited.