In 1941, the club moved from Corio Oval to the more centrally located Kardinia Park in South Geelong.

When he was three years old, Pearce moved to Geelong, Australia, where his mother ran a deer farm.

Note that the current council moved into " caretaker mode " on Tuesday 25 September 2012 and following the 2012 Victorian Local Government Elections on Saturday 27 October 2012, the Geelong Council will comprise thirteen ( 13 ) councillors ; consisting of one directly elected Mayor and twelve councillors, each elected to represent one of the twelve existing wards.

Because of the change in focus since the late 1960s to woodchipping, many timber mills are now defunct as jobs have moved to Geelong.

He moved to Geelong where he attended the Geelong College and the Gordon Institute of TAFE, graduating as a mechanical engineer.

In the middle of 1974, Hunt moved to the Geelong Football Club due to his work as a policeman.

In 1866 Berry moved to Geelong, where he started a newspaper bought the newspaper from James Harrison who started it in 1865, the Geelong Register, as a rival to the established Geelong Advertiser.

Brownless moved to Geelong in time for the 1986 VFL season and began working as a groundsman at Kardinia Park.

Essendon's first VFL game was in 1897 was against Geelong at Corio Oval in Geelong.

The courage, resource and bushmanship of Hume were important factors in surmounting their many difficulties, and after a journey of 11 weeks they came to Corio Bay near the present site of Geelong.

Thirty years later, settlers from Tasmania returned to establish Melbourne, now the state's capital city, at the mouth of the Yarra River in 1835 and Geelong at Corio Bay in 1838.

Today Port Phillip is the most densely populated catchment in Australia with an estimated 3 million people living around the bay ; Melbourne's suburbs extend around much of the northern and eastern shorelines, and the city of Geelong sprawls around Corio Bay, in the bay's western arm.

* Geelong Channels-Begins off the coast of Point Richards and runs in a westerly direction through Outer Harbour and into Corio Bay where it splits in two heading north towards the modern Port of Geelong and south towards Cunningham Pier.

Presently they skirted its shores south-westerly and came to what is now Corio Bay near Geelong.

Soon they arrived at Corio Bay which the aboriginals called ' Iramoo Downs ' near the present site of Geelong.

Over the next week, he explored the area around the Bay, first at Corio Bay, near the present site of Geelong, and later moving up the Yarra and Maribyrnong rivers at the north of the Bay.

On 6 June 1835 Batman, as part of a Tasmanian business syndicate known as the Port Phillip Association signed a treaty with eight Wurundjeri elders, in which he purported to buy of land around Melbourne and another around Geelong, on Corio Bay to the south-west.

* W. R. Brownhill The History of Geelong and Corio Bay.

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.

Corio Bay, overlooking Geelong West, Victoria | Geelong West, Drumcondra, Victoria | Drumcondra and North Geelong, Victoria | North Geelong in 1927.

Corio Bay from Moorabool Street, Geelong.

Landsat 7 imagery of the greater Geelong area, showing Corio Bay.

Corio Bay is one of numerous bays in the southwest corner of Australia's Port Phillip, and is the bay on which abuts the City of Geelong.

The shores of Corio Bay have been a popular playground for Geelong residents.

In the 1960s, former Geelong player Neil Trezise approached Farmer about representing the Australian Labor Party in the seat of Corio.

The season was soured by three 63-point defeats, two to Hawthorn and another by Fremantle at Subiaco Oval ( this occurring after the second of those hidings by Hawthorn ) plus a 50 point hiding from eventual premiers Geelong ( for which captain Matthew Lloyd was suspended ).

St Kilda's final home game for premiership points at the Junction Oval was the Round 18 match on 22 August 1964 against Geelong.

* In May 2001 during an Australian Football League match between Geelong and Carlton at Optus Oval, Geelong's Darren Milburn executed a very late and illegal bump on Carlton's Steven Silvagni, collecting Silvagni's head with his hip, knocking Silvagni unconscious and leaving him having to be carried from the field by trainers.

The Geelong Football Club began playing their first home games at Kardinia Park in 1941 after its previous home ground, Corio Oval, was commandeered by the military during World War II.

The match between Geelong and Carlton, originally to have been played at Corio Oval, was postponed due to a railway strike.

The suburb is also home to the Geelong Amateur Football Club who also use Stinton Oval during the winter months.

* Corio Oval, Geelong: 1959-1961

At the start of 1986, Essendon were considered unbackable for three successive flags, but a succession of injuries to key players Paul Van der Haar ( only fifteen games from 1986 to 1988 ), Tim Watson, Darren Williams, Roger Merrett and Simon Madden led the club to win only eight of its last eighteen games in 1986 and only nine games ( plus a draw with Geelong ) in 1987.

However, after a fiery encounter with Hawthorn ended in a convincing defeat, the Bombers were no match for Geelong next week.

Geelong holds a number of league records including the longest winning streak in AFL / VFL history ( 23 games ); the most goals kicked in a single game ( on two occasions-37. 17 ( 239 ) against Brisbane in 1992 and 37. 11 ( 233 ) against Melbourne in 2011 ); the highest score recorded in a single game ( 37. 17 ( 239 ) against Brisbane in 1992 ; the highest-ever aggregate season total for points scored ( 3, 334 points in 1992 ); the record for restricting an opponent to the lowest ever score in a game ( St Kilda 0. 1 ( 1 ) in 1899 ); the most consecutive 100-point victories ( 3 games in a row, in 1989 ); the longest winning streak in interstate games ( 12 games ) and achieved the longest home ground winning streak in VFL / AFL history — 29 games straight at Simonds Stadium ( also known as Kardinia Park ).

The VFL / AFL's award for the fairest and best player in a season is named after Charles Brownlow, a Geelong and VFL administrator who died in early 1924.

Bob Davis acknowledges the possibility that had Coleman played, Essendon may well have won, given that Geelong had no true match for him, as Coleman was simply too skilled.

During this time, HMBB was the first company to assemble bodies for Ford Australia until their Geelong, plant was completed.

Following a pre-1999 election commitment to consider the feasibility of introducing fast rail services to regional centres, in 2000 the government approved funding for the Regional Fast Rail project, upgrading rail lines between Melbourne and Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong and Traralgon.

The concept was developed in 1933 by Lewis Bandt of the Ford Motor Company in Geelong following a request from a Gippsland farmer's wife for a vehicle that they could go to church in on Sunday without getting wet and also use to take the pigs to market on Monday.

" In the 21 days between tearing the muscle and the end of the Geelong game, Wayne trained for approximately 10 minutes.

* 1856 – James Harrison patented an ether liquid-vapour compression refrigeration system and developed the first practical ice-making and refrigeration room for use in the brewing and meat-packing industries of Geelong, Victoria.

It is the administrative centre for the City of Greater Geelong municipality which covers the urban and surrounding areas and is home to over 181, 000 people.

Geelong was named in 1827 by Governor Richard Burke, with the name derived from the local Wathaurong Aboriginal name for the region, Jillong, thought to mean ' land ' or ' cliffs '.

* Aldford, John & O ' Neill, Deirdre ( eds ), Contract State: public management and the Kennett government, Geelong: Centre for Applied Research, 1994.

Although based in Geelong, it was notable for being receivable over most of the Melbourne metropolitan area.

* Jim Kearney ( Australian footballer ), player for Geelong and Richmond between 1915 and 1921

Having won a second chance, the Pies struggled against Adelaide for the second year in a row before John Anthony kicked the match-winning goal with a minute left to send them into another preliminary final meeting with Geelong.

The club earned a rebuke from the VFA for scheduling a practice match against Geelong before the 1907 season.

* for boy's schools-1. Scotch College, Melbourne, 2. Melbourne Grammar School, 3. Melbourne High School, 4. Geelong Grammar School, 5. Sydney Boys High School, 6. Wesley College, Melbourne, 7. Sydney Church of England Grammar School, 8. Fort Street Boys ' High, 9. North Sydney Boys High School, 10. Sydney Grammar School.

Many of the car chase scenes for Mad Max were filmed near the town of Little River, just north of Geelong.

The Melbourne Harbor Trust and Geelong Harbor Trust were responsible for the piers and wharves in their respective cities-they are now the government owned Port of Melbourne Corporation and the privately operated GeelongPort.

Helmed by a Captain Aitken, it left Geelong bound for Sydney on 23 December 1937, but ran aground in heavy fog.