Mount Duneed, Victoria

Mount Duneed
Geelong, Victoria
Mount Duneed
Coordinates 38°13′55″S 144°18′13″E / 38.23194°S 144.30361°E / -38.23194; 144.30361Coordinates: 38°13′55″S 144°18′13″E / 38.23194°S 144.30361°E / -38.23194; 144.30361
Population 985 (2006)[1]
Postcode(s) 3217
Location
LGA(s)
State electorate(s) South Barwon
Federal Division(s) Corangamite
Suburbs around Mount Duneed:
Waurn Ponds Grovedale Charlemont
Freshwater Creek Mount Duneed Armstrong Creek
Freshwater Creek Torquay Connewarre

Mount Duneed is a suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. It is divided between the City of Greater Geelong and Surf Coast Shire local government areas.

Much of the locality north of Lower Duneed Road is part of the large Armstrong Creek Growth Area, which was opened up for urban development from 2010. With the gazetting of the suburb Armstrong Creek in February 2012, Mount Duneed's southern boundary between Surf Coast Highway and Horseshoe Bend Road follows the boundary of the Armstrong Creek Urban Growth Area. The area north of Boundary Road, south of the Warrnambool railway line and west of the Surf Coast Highway, formerly part of Grovedale, became part of Mount Duneed.[2][3][4]

History

The Post Office opened on 15 February 1860, but was known as Connewarre for some months then Puelba until 1864. It was renamed Mount Duneed on 1 April 1864. It closed in 1959.[5]

The Geelong Airport was located in Mount Duneed, but it closed in 2011 after the area was opened up for urban residential development.[6]

The locality has one site listed on the Victorian Heritage Register, Prefabricated Iron Cottage.[7]

Notable people

Auditor-General Ralph Abercrombie was born in Mount Duneed on 19 July 1881 and lived there until 1882. His father was the local school teacher.[8]

Victoria Cross recipient Rupert Vance "Mick" Moon lived at Calder Park, Mount Duneed from 1954 - 1978 and is buried at the Mount Duneed Cemetery.[9][10]

Donald Bantock who was the judge of the first coursing meeting in Australia at Narracoorte, South Australia lived at Calder Park in the 1880s.[11][12]

References

  1. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Mount Duneed (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 2007-10-01.
  2. ↑ "General Gazette Number G8" (PDF). Victoria Government Gazette. Government of Victoria. 23 February 2012. p. 36. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  3. ↑ Woods, Eleanor (9 August 2011). "Charlemont 3217". Surf Coast Times. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  4. ↑ "Charlemont" (PDF). Department of Energy and Primary Industries. Archived from the original on April 1, 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  5. ↑ Premier Postal History, Post Office List, retrieved 2008-04-11
  6. ↑ "Geelong Airport closes to unwelcome visitors". The Age. 5 October 2010. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  7. ↑ "Prefabricated Iron Cottage (H1131)". Victorian Heritage Register. Heritage Victoria. Retrieved 2014-03-23.
  8. ↑ Mount Duneed Primary School Centenary 1878-1978
  9. ↑ Victorian Heritage Database - Rupert Vance Moon Memorial Garden report
  10. ↑ Mount Duneed Primary School Centenary 1878 - 1978
  11. ↑ The Elector (Sydney) 14 July 1900
  12. ↑ Geelong Advertiser 27 June 1881


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