From the nearby town of Mount Beauty to its summit, Mount Bogong rises more than, thus making it one of the highest peaks in Australia not only in terms of its elevation above sea level, but also in terms of actual base-to-summit prominence.

This town also has great views to the mountains, such as Mount Bogong and the peaks that are of interest to so many tourists coming through the town.

The word bunyip can still be found in a number of Australian contexts, including place names such as the Bunyip River ( which flows into Westernport Bay in southern Victoria ) and the town of Bunyip, Victoria.

The word bunyip has been used in other Australian contexts, including The Bunyip newspaper as the banner of a local weekly newspaper published in the town of Gawler, South Australia.

There is a town in the Western Australian wheatbelt approx 300 km east of Perth called Southern Cross.

Hobart also plays host to the University of Tasmania's acclaimed Australian International Symphony Orchestra Institute ( AISOI ) which brings pre-professional advanced young musicians to town from all over Australia and internationally.

* Ivanhoe, New South Wales, a small outback town in the Australian state of New South Wales, named circa 1869 by a pioneering Scottish-born settler.

* 1968 – An earthquake rated at 6. 8 on the Richter Scale destroys the Australian town of Meckering, Western Australia, and it also ruptures all nearby main highways and railroads.

* 1975 – The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor ( now East Timor ), are killed by Indonesian troops.

* Portland, New South Wales, a town with the first Australian cement works

The main exception to this was the Australian Broadcasting Corporation produced Something in the Air, a rural-based serial examining a range of characters in a small country town.

Another Australian town, Lightning Ridge in New South Wales, is the main source of black opal, opal containing a predominantly dark background ( dark-gray to blue-black displaying the play of color ).

The name Silver City was derived from the eponymous Australian mining town at Broken Hill, where the The Zinc Corporation was headquartered.

* Paris, fictional Australian town, setting for the Peter Weir's 1974 film The Cars That Ate Paris

Lincoln Hall was a well-known Australian mountaineer and adventurer who lived in the neighbouring town of Wentworth Falls ( died 2012 ).

The town has an Australian rules football team ( Benalla Saints ) competing in the Goulburn Valley Football League and a team ( Benalla All Blacks ) competing in the Ovens & King Football League.

The town has an Australian Rules football team competing in the Goulburn Valley Football League and a team Echuca United competing in the Murray Football League.

The town in conjunction with neighbouring Traralgon has an Australian Rules football team Traralgon-Tyers United competing in the North Gippsland Football League.

* Nain, Principality of Hutt River, capital and only town in the Australian micronation

Lamington is also a suburb of Western Australian outback town of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

* Coober Pedy, an Australian opal mining town famous for its underground buildings

The climate is the most equable of any Australian town or city and ranked 5th on a worldwide comparison.

After the war they seek each other out and reunite in a small Australian town that would have no future if not for her plans to turn it into " a town like Alice.

* Australian, British Columbia, a town in Canada

The Australian and New Zealand Beckenhams were named after the town in London, and this association continues in the naming of adjacent areas: the town of Sydenham is next to Beckenham in London, the suburb of Sydenham adjoins the suburb of Beckenham in Christchurch, and the suburb of Beckenham in Perth contains a Sydenham Street.

The 1958 town meeting directed town authorities to seek federal and state funds with which to conduct a preliminary survey of a proposed sewage plant with its attendant facilities.

() is a town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, about east of Stuttgart and north of Ulm.

The old town, Laurenzenvorstadt, government building, cantonal library, state archive and art museum are all listed as heritage sites of national significance.

The polygonal walls of the acropolis may still be seen in a fair state of preservation on a circular hill standing about above the little plain of Exarcho ; one gateway remains, and there are also traces of town walls below.

Ajaigarh, or Adjygurh () is town and a nagar panchayat in the Panna District of Madhya Pradesh state in central India.

The chief resided at the town of Nowgong, at the foot of the hill-fortress of Ajaigarh, from which the state took its name.

The former princely state became part of the new Indian state of Vindhya Pradesh, and most of the territory of the former state, including the town of Ajaigarh, became part of Panna District, with a smaller portion going to Chhatarpur District.

* Ai, Ohio, a town in the U. S. state of Ohio

Bodmin College is a large state comprehensive school for ages 11 – 18 on the outskirts of the town and on the edge of Bodmin Moor.

For example, in the U. S. state of Massachusetts an article of incorporation approved by the local state legislature distinguishes a city government from a town.

In the early 15th century, the town became an independent state once again, and emerged as a safe harbour for pirates and privateers, leading to it being targeted by the Portuguese, who destroyed the town in 1468.

The modern-day town of Ixcateopan in the state of Guerrero is home to an ossuary purportedly containing Cuauhtémoc's remains.

The Ellensburg Rodeo has been a town tradition since 1923, and is the largest rodeo in Washington state.

Fairmount is a town in Fairmount Township, Grant County in the east central part of the U. S. state of Indiana.

The guilds were identified with organizations enjoying certain privileges ( letters patent ), usually issued by the king or state and overseen by local town business authorities ( some kind of chamber of commerce ).

Harwich is a New England town on Cape Cod, in Barnstable County in the state of Massachusetts in the United States.

In it, the three goddesses have been reduced to three town biddies in smalltown Washington state.

Essen became a large company town, and Krupp became a de facto state within a state, with " Kruppianer " as loyal to the company and the Krupp family as to the nation and the Hohenzollern family.