Kangaroo Ground, Victoria
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| Population: | 1019 (2006) [1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 3097 | ||||||||||||
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| LGA: | Shire of Nillumbik | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Yan Yean | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | McEwen | ||||||||||||
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Kangaroo Ground is a town in Victoria, Australia, 26 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Nillumbik. At the 2006 Census, Kangaroo Ground had a population of 1019.
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[edit] History
Kangaroo Ground Post Office opened on 4 October 1854. [2]
[edit] Today
Kangaroo Ground also contains the Kangaroo Ground Primary School, a tennis club, a general store, post office, a pony club, a fire station and Wellers Restaurant. Its post office is reputed to be the only one in Australia which is also a winery.[citation needed]
The Memorial Tower in Kangaroo Ground War Memorial Park is one of the highest places in Melbourne. Originally built as a World War 1 memorial, it is presently used to monitor bushfires during the bushfire season. The grounds around the tower feature a pine sapling planted on 11 November 2005; it was taken from the original Lone Pine growing on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey.
[edit] References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Kangaroo Ground (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/prenav/LocationSearch?collection=Census&period=2006&areacode=SSC25845&producttype=QuickStats&breadcrumb=PL&action=401. Retrieved 2007-09-25.
- ^ Premier Postal History, Post Office List, https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country=, retrieved 2008-04-11
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Coordinates: 37°41′10″S 145°12′58″E / 37.686°S 145.216°E
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