Gippsland

Gippsland is a rural region in the Australian state of Victoria. It extends from the eastern suburbs of Melbourne to the border of the State of New South Wales and touches the north, the mountain ranges of the Great Dividing Range and to the south the Bass Strait. Economically, carries the region through resource extraction, energy production, agricultural production and tourism.

Originally inhabited by the indigenous tribes of Gunai and Bunurong - Aboriginal settled after 1840 in the original " Caledonia Australis " said region increasingly Europeans. The name of Gippsland received the area by Paweł Edmund Strzelecki the Polish researchers in honor of the then Governor of New South Wales, George Gipps.

According to the 2006 census lived in Statistical Gippsland region 239 648 inhabitants in an area of 45371.1 km ², of which about 80,000 in East Gippsland, rd. 52,000 in South Gippsland, 34,000 in West Gippsland, and about 74,000 in the Latrobe Valley.

At Gippsland LGAs include the following: Shire of Alberton, Shire of Avon, Shire of Bairnsdale, Shire of Bass, Shire of Buln Buln, Shire of Korumburra, Shire of Omeo, Shire of Orbost, Shire of South Gippsland Shire of Tambo Shire of Traralgon, Shire of Rosedale, Shire of Maffra, Shire of Mirboo, Shire of Narracan, Shire of Woorayl, Borough of Wonthaggi, Rural City of Warragul, City of Bairnsdale, City of Moe, City of Morwell, City of Sale, City of Traralgon.

In addition, the unincorporated area Yallourn Works Area is Gippsland