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Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village is located in Warrnambool, a regional city on the south-western coast of Victoria, Australia. The museum is built on Flagstaff Hill that also holds the original lighthouses and Warrnambool Garrison. The museum is laid out like an 1870s period village with costumed tradesmen and interpreters.
The name "Warrnambool" originated from Mount Warrnambool, a scoria cone volcano 25 kilometres northeast of the town. Warrnambool (or Warrnoobul) was the title of both the volcano and the clan of Aboriginal Australian people who lived there. In the local language, the prefix Warnn- designated home or hut, while the meaning of the suffix -ambool ...
Allan's only Test came against the touring Lord Harris XI in 1879. He had been selected for the first two Tests two years earlier but had declined selection both times, including preferring to attend the Warrnambool Agricultural Fair with friends than playing in the inaugural Test match. Australian rules football
City of Warrnambool. The City of Warrnambool is a local government area in the Barwon South West region of Victoria, Australia, located in the south-western part of the state. It covers an area of 121 square kilometres (47 sq mi) and in June 2018 had a population of 34,862. [1] It is entirely surrounded by the Shire of Moyne and the Southern Ocean.
Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education ( WIAE) was a college of advanced education in Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia. It was created in July 1969 after the tertiary section of Warrnambool Technical College (now South West TAFE) was affiliated with the Victorian Institute of Colleges (VIC), under the name of the Warrnambool Institute of ...
Further reading "Coon". Online Etymology Dictionary. Hawthorn, Jeremy (2005). "The Use of 'Coon' in Conrad: British Slang or Racist Slur?". The Conradian. 30 (1): 113. JSTOR 20873542. In his 1990 edition of Typhoon and other stories Paul Kirschner glosses Conrad's use of coon as "(US) derogatory slang for a Negro; (Australian) an Aboriginal".
Mount Warrnambool is a single large scoria cone volcano that is 216 metres (709 ft) high. It is 16 kilometres (10 mi) southwest of Terang, Victoria , Australia. [1] It is visible from the Princes Highway on the way to Warrnambool .
Shire of Warrnambool. The Shire of Warrnambool was a local government area located about 260 kilometres (162 mi) west-southwest of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of 1,605 square kilometres (619.7 sq mi), and existed from 1854 until 1994. Warrnambool itself was managed by a separate entity; the ...