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Macedon Ranges, the Glossary

The Macedon Ranges is a region in Central Victoria, known for its expansive native forests, vibrant arts scene, thriving food and wine industries (including weekly farmers' markets) and natural attractions such as Hanging Rock and Mount Macedon.^[1]

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Geography of Victoria (state)

Arthur Streeton

Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton (8 April 1867 – 1 September 1943) was an Australian landscape painter and a leading member of the Heidelberg School, also known as Australian Impressionism.

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Australian gold rushes

During the Australian gold rushes, starting in 1851, significant numbers of workers moved from elsewhere in Australia and overseas to where gold had been discovered.

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Ballarat

Ballarat (balla arat) is a city in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia.

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Bendigo

Bendigo is a city in Victoria, Australia, located in the Bendigo Valley near the geographical centre of the state and approximately north-west of Melbourne, the state capital.

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Braemar College

Braemar College is an ecumenical co-curricular private school located on Mount Macedon in Woodend, Victoria, Australia.

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Calder Highway

Calder Highway is a rural highway in Australia, linking Mildura and the Victoria/New South Wales border to Bendigo, in North Central Victoria.

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Carl Valeri

Carl Valeri (born 14 August 1984) is an Australian retired professional soccer player.

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Caroline Chisholm

Caroline Chisholm (born Caroline Jones; 30 May 1808 – 25 March 1877) was an English humanitarian known mostly for her support of immigrant female and family welfare in Australia.

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Castlemaine, Victoria

Castlemaine (non-locally also) is a town in west central Victoria, Australia, in the Goldfields region about 120 kilometres (75 miles) northwest by road from Melbourne and about 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the major provincial centre of Bendigo.

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Clarkefield, Victoria

Clarkefield is a town in Victoria, Australia, north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Hume and the Shire of Macedon Ranges local government areas.

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Deniliquin railway line

The Deniliquin railway line (also known as the Bendigo railway line or the Echuca railway line) is a broad-gauge railway line serving north-western Victoria, Australia.

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Djadjawurrung

Dja Dja Wurrung (Pronounced Ja-Ja-war-rung), also known as the Djaara or Jajowrong people and Loddon River tribe, are an Aboriginal Australian people who are the traditional owners of lands including the water catchment areas of the Loddon and Avoca rivers in the Bendigo region of central Victoria, Australia.

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Frederick McCubbin

Frederick McCubbin (25 February 1855 – 20 December 1917) was an Australian artist, art teacher and prominent member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian impressionism.

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Gisborne Secondary College

Gisborne Secondary College is a co-educational secondary school located in Gisborne, Victoria, established in 1981.

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Gisborne South, Victoria

Gisborne South is a locality in the southern part of the Macedon Ranges, a 40-minute drive from Melbourne, Australia.

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Gisborne, Victoria

Gisborne is a town in the Macedon Ranges, located about north-west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.

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Gold mining

Gold mining is the extraction of gold by mining.

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Goldfields (Victoria)

The Goldfields region of Victoria is a region commonly used but typically defined in both historical geography and tourism geography (in particular heritage tourism). Macedon Ranges and Goldfields (Victoria) are geography of Victoria (state).

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Hanging Rock, Victoria

Hanging Rock (also known as Dryden's Mount or Dryden's Rock,Stephanie Skidmore & Ian D. Clark (2014) "Hanging Rock Recreation Reserve", In:, Ian D. Clarke ed., De Gruyter Open Ltd: Warsaw/Berlin, pp. 111-134. and to some Aboriginal Australians as Ngannelong) is a distinctive geological formation in central Victoria, Australia.

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Hipster (contemporary subculture)

The 21st-century hipster is a subculture (sometimes called hipsterism).

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Jan Skubiszewski

Jan Skubiszewski (pronounced; born 1981) is an Australian composer, record producer, songwriter and sound engineer from Melbourne, Australia.

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John Curtin

John Curtin (8 January 1885 – 5 July 1945) was an Australian politician who served as the 14th prime minister of Australia from 1941 until his death in 1945.

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John Marsden (writer)

John Marsden (born 27 September 1950) is an Australian writer and alternative school principal.

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Knowing (film)

Knowing (stylized as KNOW1NG) is a 2009 American science fiction thriller film directed and co-produced by Alex Proyas and starring Nicolas Cage.

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Kulin nation

The Kulin nation is an alliance of five Aboriginal nations in south-up into the Great Dividing Range and the Loddon and Goulburn River valleys.

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Kyneton

Kyneton is a town in the Macedon Ranges region of West Central Victoria, Australia.

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Kyneton Secondary College

Kyneton High School is a secondary school in Kyneton, Victoria, Australia, approximately 90 km north of Melbourne.

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Lancefield, Victoria

Lancefield is a town in the Shire of Macedon Ranges local government area in Victoria, Australia north of the state capital, Melbourne, 33.6km south of Puckapunyal and had a population of at least 2,743 at the 2021 census.

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Lloyd Williams (businessman)

Lloyd J. Williams (born 7 May 1940) is an Australian property developer and businessperson, with significant interests in thoroughbred horse racing.

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Macedon, Victoria

Macedon is a town at the foot of Mount Macedon in the Macedon Ranges, between Melbourne and Bendigo in central Victoria.

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Malmsbury, Victoria

Malmsbury is a town in central Victoria, Australia on the Old Calder Highway (C794), 95 km north-west of the state capital, Melbourne and 11 km north-west of Kyneton.

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Melbourne

Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.

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Mount Macedon

Mount Macedon (Geboor or Geburrh) is a dormant volcano that is part of the Macedon Ranges of the Great Dividing Range, located in the Central Highlands region of Victoria, Australia.

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Mount Macedon, Victoria

Mount Macedon is a town north-west of Melbourne in the Australian state of Victoria.

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National park

A national park is a nature park designated for conservation purposes because of unparalleled national natural, historic, or cultural significance.

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New Gisborne, Victoria

New Gisborne is a suburb of Gisborne in Victoria, Australia, in the foothills of Mount Macedon in the Shire of Macedon Ranges.

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Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Kim Coppola (born January 7, 1964), known by his stage name Nicolas Cage, is an American actor and film producer.

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North Central Victoria

North Central Victoria is a rural region in the Australian state of Victoria.

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Picnic at Hanging Rock (film)

Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 Australian mystery film directed by Peter Weir and based on the 1967 novel Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay.

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Picnic at Hanging Rock (novel)

Picnic at Hanging Rock is an Australian historical fiction novel by Joan Lindsay.

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Riddells Creek

Riddells Creek is a town in Victoria, Australia, located in Wurundjeri Country and the Shire of Macedon Ranges.

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Romsey, Victoria

Romsey is a town in the local government area of the Shire of Macedon Ranges in the state of Victoria, Australia.

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Sacred Heart College, Kyneton

Sacred Heart College, Kyneton is a Roman Catholic secondary college, founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1889 in Kyneton, Victoria, Australia.

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Shire of Macedon Ranges

The Shire of Macedon Ranges is a region in Central Victoria, Australia, best known for its native forests, geographical attraction Hanging Rock, and artisan food and wine industries.

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Sustainable living

Sustainable living describes a lifestyle that attempts to reduce the use of Earth's natural resources by an individual or society.

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Taungurung

The Taungurung people, also spelt Daung Wurrung, are an Aboriginal people who are one of the Kulin nations in present-day Victoria, Australia.

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Where the Wild Things Are (film)

Where the Wild Things Are is a 2009 fantasy adventure drama film directed by Spike Jonze.

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Where-to-be-born Index

The where-to-be-born index (previously called the quality-of-life index, abbreviated QLI) was an index last published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in 2013, which aimed to measure which country would provide the best opportunities for a healthy, safe and prosperous life in the years after its publication.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedon_Ranges

, Woodend, Victoria, Wurundjeri, 2016 Australian census.

Macedon Ranges, the Glossary

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See also

Geography of Victoria (state)

References