High Country & Alpine Region

<body onclick="dynOutline()" language="Javascript1.2"><table dir="ltr" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top"> <h4 style="text-align: center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"> <b>High Country & Alpine Region</b></h4> <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font size="2">north west sector of East Gippsland. gold mining history, timber harvesting, high country cattle grazing pastoral activities. Recreational activities such as 4 wheel driving, fishing, horse riding, camping, exploration of historic gold mining areas and sight seeing. Steeped in gold mining history with historic areas centred around Omeo Movement increased when a track was cut between Port Albert and Bairnsdale. An influx of miners occurred and new goldfields opened at Gibbo, Dry Gully, Cassilis, Dartmouth, Brookville, the Wombat and Stirling.</font></p> <ul dynamicoutline initcollapsed> <li> <h5 style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align:justify"> <span style="font-weight: 400"><font size="2">Location & Access</font></span></h5> <ul> <li> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align:justify"> <font size="2">320 km (3.5 Hrs) east of  Melbourne via Princes Highway & Dargo Road</font></li> <li> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align:justify"> <font size="2">200 km (2.5 hrs) south of North East Victoria (Albury/Wodonga) via Great Alpine Road or Dargo High Plains Road</font></li> </ul> </li> <li> <h5 style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align:justify"> <span style="font-weight: 400"><font size="2">Population</font></span></h5> <ul> <li> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align:justify"> <font size="2">The High Country & Alpine Region's population of approximately 1100 represents approximately 3% of East Gippsland's population.</font></li> </ul></li> <li> <h5 style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align:justify"> <span style="font-weight: 400"><font size="2">Area & Land Use</font></span></h5> <ul> <li> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-bottom:0; text-align:justify"><span lang="en-us"><font size="2">High Country & Alpine Region 7,200 sq km</font></span></li> </ul> <ul> <li> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align:justify"> <font size="2">30% of East Gippsland</font></li> <li> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align:justify"> <font size="2">80 % Parks & Reserves</font></li> </ul></li> <li> <h5 style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-weight: 400"> <font size="2">Brief History</font></span></h5> <ul> <li> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align:justify"> <font size="2">The region was first sighted by Europeans  in 1834  from the southern alps. In 1835 George McKillop journeyed south from Monaro in New South Wales in search of new pastures. Another member of the party, James McFarlane, returned and founded what was probably the first cattle station in Victoria - Omeo B at what is now Benambra</font></p></li> <li> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align:justify"> <font size="2">The goldrush reached its peak in the 1860s. Land settlement began in 1870 and Omeo was declared a municipality in 1872. A Wesleyan Church was opened in 1870, with the Roman Catholic Church following in 1874, the Church of England in 1892 and the Presbyterian Church in 1894. However, the stock of alluvial gold began to disappear and with it went many of the miners. Chinese people moved into the area to work the tailings and established market gardens</font></p></li> </ul> </li> <li> <h5 style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-weight: 400"> <font size="2">History & Heritage</font></span></h5> <ul> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"> <font size="2">Benambra Uniting Church</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"> <font size="2">Exhibition Mine Battery</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"> <font size="2">Kingwill Bridge</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"> <font size="2">Omeo Catholic Church</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"> <font size="2">Omeo Historic Park</font></li> </ul></li> <li> <h5 style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <span style="font-weight: 400"><font size="2">Regional Centres</font></span></h5> <ul> <li> <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font size="2">Dargo</font></p></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font size="2">Castleburn</font></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font size="2">Cobbannah</font></p></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font size="2">Waterford</font></p></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font size="2">Benambra</font></p></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font size="2">Ensay</font></p></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font size="2">Swifts Creek</font></p></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font size="2">Omeo</font></p></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font size="2">Bullumwaal</font></p></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font size="2">Dinner Plain</font></p></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font size="2">Hotham Heights</font></p></li> </ul> </li> <li> <h5 style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-weight: 400"> <font size="2">Roads </font></span></h5> <ul> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"> <font size="2">Angora Range Road</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"> <font size="2">Baldhead Road</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"> <font size="2">Birregun Road</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"> <font size="2">Bullumwaal Road</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"> <font size="2">Cassilis Road</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"> <font size="2">Dargo High Plains Road</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"> <font size="2">Dargo Road</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"> <font size="2">Deptford Road</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"> <font size="2">Engineers Road</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"> <font size="2">Great Alpine Road</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"> <font size="2">Jones Road</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"> <font size="2">Little River Road</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"> <font size="2">Bentley Plains Road</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"> <font size="2">Nunniong Road</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"> <font size="2">Omeo Highway</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"> <font size="2">Upper Dargo Road</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"> <font size="2">Wonnangatta Road</font></li> </ul></li> <li> <h5 style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-weight: 400"> <font size="2">Parks & Reserves</font></span></h5> <ul> <li> <h5 style="text-align: justify"> <span style="font-weight: 400"><font size="2">National Parks</font></span></h5> <ul> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Alpine National Park</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Mitchell River National Park</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Snowy River National Park</font></li> </ul></li> <li> <h5 style="text-align: justify"> <span style="font-weight: 400"><font size="2">State & Regional Parks</font></span></h5> <ul> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Dargo State Forest</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Nunnett State Forest</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Nunniong Plains</font></li> </ul></li> <li> <h5 style="text-align: justify"> <span style="font-weight: 400"><font size="2">Reserves</font></span></h5> <ul> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Bentley Plains Reserve</font></li> </ul></li> <li> <h5 style="text-align: justify"> <span style="font-weight: 400"><font size="2">Historic Areas</font></span></h5> <ul> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Black Snake Creek Historic Area</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Cassilis Historic Area</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Deptford Historic Area</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Grant Historic Area</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Haunted Stream Mining Area</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Oriental Claims Historic Area</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Prospect Creek Mining Area</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Victoria Falls Historic Area</font></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> <li> <h5 style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-weight: 400"> <font size="2">Waterways</font></span></h5> <ul> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Crooked River</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Dargo River</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Mitchell River</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Wentworth River</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Wongungarra River</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Wonnangatta River</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Haunted Stream</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Livingston Creek</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Nicholson River</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Store Creek</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Tambo River</font></li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify"><font size="2">Timbarra River</font></li> </ul></li> <li> <h5 style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-weight: 400"> <font size="2">Attractions & Activities</font></span></h5> <ul> <li> <h5 style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-weight: 400"> <font size="2">Recreational Parks & Gardens</font></span></h5> <ul> <li> <h5 style="text-align: justify"></h5> </li> </ul></li> <li> <h5 style="text-align: 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