Surveying for the road, tentatively titled the South Coast Road, started in 1918-with the road suggested to travel from Barwon Heads, follow the coast west around Cape Otway, and end near Warrnambool.

* Barwon Heads / 13th Beach SLSC

Other airports in the area are at Barwon Heads and the Torquay Airport in Blackgate Road, Torquay.

The Barwon River rises in the Otway Ranges of Victoria, Australia, runs through Winchelsea and the city of Geelong, where it is joined by the Moorabool River, and enters the sea at Barwon Heads after passing through Lake Connewarre on the Bellarine Peninsula.

* Barwon Heads

The Barwon Heads Bridge

The twin lane wooden bridge between Barwon Heads and Ocean Grove was built in 1927.

The new Barwon Heads Bridge was constructed in 2010.

Filming was based at Barwon Heads, Victoria and St Leonards, Victoria, both locations being on the Bellarine Peninsula.

In 1927 the town was linked by the Barwon Heads Bridge to Barwon Heads on the other side of the river, previous access being by rowboat.

Ocean Grove was featured in the 2006 film Kenny, while the bridge between Ocean Grove and Barwon Heads featured in the popular ABC television show SeaChange.

* Barwon Heads, Victoria, coastal township, Australia

Barwon Heads is a coastal township on the Bellarine Peninsula, near Geelong, Victoria, Australia.

The township of Barwon Heads was surveyed in 1870 but remained sparsely populated for years, a Post Office finally opening in the area on 15 December 1889 ( renamed Connewarre East in 1890 when a new Barwon Heads PO opened in the township ).

The Barwon Heads Bridge was opened in 1927, crossing the Barwon River between Barwon Heads and Ocean Grove.

" Buckley also claimed the creature was common in the Barwon River and cites an example he heard of an Aboriginal woman being killed by one.

These rivers join with the Barwon River west of Brewarrina which also flows into the Darling River.

The dam was constructed in 1961 and Lake Keepit has a storage capacity of 425 000 megalitres and provides town water to the town of Walgett via the Namoi and Barwon Rivers, it also provides irrigation water for the Namoi Valley.

Walgett is also the home of the Barwon Brumbies rugby league side.

Corrections Victoria in the state of Victoria also operates the Acacia and Maleuca units at Barwon Prison which serve to hold the prisoners requiring the highest security in that state including Melbourne Gangland figures such as Tony Mokbel and Carl Williams, who was murdered in the Acacia unit in 2010.

Matraville also hosts a very large Christmas lights decoration in the areas around Flanders Avenue, Knowles Avenue, Franklin Street, Clarence Street and Barwon Crescent.

He also constructed a rock ford across the Barwon River in 1837, which gave name to the area now known as Breakwater, an eastern industrial and residential suburb of Geelong.

Barwon Heads has a cricket club which has won two premierships in three seasons ( 2005 / 2006 and 2007 / 2008 ).

Dunedin ( ship ) | Dunedin, the first commercially successful refrigerated ship Meanwhile in Australia, James Harrison began operation of a mechanical ice-making machine in 1851 on the banks of the Barwon River at Rocky Point in Geelong, Victoria.

is a port city located on Corio Bay and the Barwon River, in the state of Victoria, Australia, south-west of the state capital, Melbourne.

Lake Elizabeth, formed from a landslide in August 1953, it broke its banks allowing the West Barwon River ( Victoria ) | Barwon River to flow.

The current infestation appears to have originated with the release of 24 wild rabbits by Thomas Austin on his property, Barwon Park, near Winchelsea, Victoria, in October 1859 for hunting purposes.

One theory as to why the Barwon park rabbits adapted so well to Australia is that the hybrid rabbits that resulted from the interbreeding of the two distinct types were particularly hardy and vigorous.

Officially the Darling begins between Brewarrina and Bourke at the confluence of the Culgoa and Barwon rivers ; streams whose tributaries rise in the ranges of southern Queensland and northern New South Wales west of the Great Dividing Range.

* Photos of the Darling / Barwon river between Brewarrina and Bourke, taken over 2003-2006.

The team then spent several weeks charting the tributaries between the Gwydir and the Barwon Rivers.

* June 1950 when 1 person drowned in the flooded Barwon River, and 250, 000 sheep were lost in the Moree area.

Harrison's first mechanical ice-making machine began operation in 1851 on the banks of the Barwon River at Rocky Point in Geelong.

The James Harrison bridge spanning the Barwon River in Geelong is named in his honour.

It is an amalgamation of parts or wholes of the former municipalities of the Shire of Barrabool, Shire of Bannockburn, Shire of Bellarine, Shire of Corio, City of Geelong, City of Geelong West, City of Newtown, and City of South Barwon that was created in 1993.

* 1857 – South Barwon a separate District.

* 1863 – South Barwon a Borough.

* 1872 – South Barwon a Shire.

* 1974 – South Barwon a City.

The 2011 Deakin ward by-election, caused by the vacation of the seat by former Cr Andrew Katos, who had won the State seat of South Barwon at the November 2010 Victorian State election, will be held on Saturday 5 March 2011.

Most of the former Winchelsea Shire, the Barrabool Shire, and the Torquay section of the former City of South Barwon, which was, at that point, part of the City of Greater Geelong, was merged into the new shire.

** Barwon River ( New South Wales ) forms a section of the border between the states of New South Wales and Queensland.

* Macquarie River-rises in the central tablelands of New South Wales near the town of Oberon, flows northwest to the Macquarie Marshes then into the Barwon River.

The Bokhara river joins with the Barwon River west of Brewarrina, thus contributing to the Darling River.