Wilsons Promontory National Park, commonly known as Wilsons Prom or The Prom, is a national park in the Gippsland region of Victoria ( Australia ), 157 km southeast of Melbourne.

In the Gippsland region of south-eastern Victoria, the origin of the cats is claimed to be American World War II airmen who brought cougars with them as mascots and released them in the Australian Bush.

Traralgon is a city located in the east of the Latrobe Valley in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia.

A number of Traralgon families also send their children to the three independent Anglican grammar schools in the region, two of which are about 40 minutes drive from Traralgon: St. Paul's Anglican Grammar School, which has a campus in Traralgon as well as Warragul, or Gippsland Grammar School in Sale.

Sale is a city in the Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria.

In 1841, McMillan and Strzelecki made journeys of exploration through the region which would later be named Gippsland and during the 1840s the squatting runs of Maryvale, Merton Rush and Hazelwood were taken up in the area which is now Morwell.

* Great Southern Railway ( South Gippsland )-Former railway serving the South Gippsland region in Victoria, Australia

Gippsland is a large rural region in Victoria, Australia.

The region is best known for its primary production such as mining, power generation and farming as well as its tourist destinations — Phillip Island, Wilsons Promontory, the Gippsland Lakes, Walhalla, the Baw Baw Plateau, and the Strzelecki Ranges.

* Sometimes a fifth region, Central Gippsland ( corresponding approximately to the Shire of Wellington ), is added to refer to the drier zone between the Gippsland Lakes and Yarram.

The climate of Gippsland is temperate and generally humid, except in the central region around Sale, where annual rainfall can be less than 600 millimetres ( 24 in ).

Consequently, heavy fertilisation is required for agriculture or pastoral development, but with this parts of Gippsland have become highly productive dairying and vegetable-growing regions: the region supplies Melbourne with most of its needs in these commodities.

Warragul is the main population and service centre of the West Gippsland region and the Shire of Baw Baw.

From here he went westwards along what is now the coast of the Gippsland region of Victoria, to Western Port Bay, almost as far as the site of present-day Melbourne.

At the request of the Governor of New South Wales, Sir George Gipps, he made a geological and mineralogical survey of the Gippsland region in present-day eastern Victoria, where he made many discoveries.

He sailed westwards along what is now the coast of the Gippsland region of Victoria, as far west as Western Port.

The Latrobe Valley is an inland geographical region and urban area inside Gippsland in the state of Victoria, Australia.

While the Latrobe River flows into Lake Wellington to the east of Sale and includes in its drainage basin a significant part of central Gippsland, the region conventionally known as the Latrobe Valley occupies a smaller area centred on the four major towns of Warragul, Moe, Morwell and Traralgon, between the Strzelecki Ranges to the south and the westernmost reaches of the Australian Alps to the north.

The Princes Freeway runs through Latrobe Valley, bypassing only Morwell and connecting the region to both Melbourne and East Gippsland.

The region is represented in the Victoria State TAC Cup Under 18's competition by the Gippsland Power.

The Gippsland League Football competition is the largest league in the region and one of the largest and highest standard football leagues in Victoria outside of Melbourne.

Warragul commercial radio stations Star FM and 3GG service this region along with all five ABC radio networks and several community and narrowcast stations including Gippsland FM.

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.

The loss of the Mildura seat to an independent Russell Savage was an indication of this disaffection, and when in February 1997 independent Susan Davies was elected to the seat of Gippsland West, this trend seemed set to continue.

As with much of central and western Gippsland, this was mainly dairy farming.

The area was the first in Australia to receive its own regional television station, GLV-10 Gippsland ( now Southern Cross Ten ), when it launched on 9 December 1961.

It was also an important service centre for East Gippsland and the Monaro Plains of New South Wales.

Shops, hotels and offices spilled over into Raymond Street and the first Anglican Church was erected on the site now occupied by St Anne's and Gippsland Grammar School.

The Gippsland Times newspaper was established in 1861 while the first Star Hotel and the Criterion Hotel were built in 1865.

The Mitchell River was an important location to the Gunai / Kurnai nation, especially the Brabuwooloong and the Brayakuloong people of central Gippsland.

In 1999 the seat of East Gippsland was won in the Victorian election by an independent Craig Ingram, based in large part on his campaign to improve Snowy flows.

The LaTrobe City Stadium was home to the Gippsland Falcons, which competed in the National Soccer League until they disbanded in 2001, an offshoot club competes as the Falcons 2000 Gippsland Soccer League along with Fortuna 60 and Morwell Pegasus.

The original Lyndhust site was owned by the then " Commonwealth Of Australia " and the boundaries of the site were essentially a triangle shape formed by the South Gippsland Highway, Hallam Road and Lynbrook Boulevard.

* The Burrunan dolphin ( T. australis ), found in the Port Phillip and Gippsland Lakes areas of Victoria, Australia, was described in September 2011 after research showed it was distinct from T. truncatus and T. aduncus.

Following these expeditions, the area was officially given the title of " Gippsland ", a name chosen by Strzelecki in honour of the New South Wales Governor, George Gipps, his sponsor.

In June 2007 there was a flood affecting all of Gippsland but most especially East Gippsland, causing all rivers to have flood warnings and flooding the Bairnsdale caravan park.

VR's entire electric locomotive fleet was withdrawn from service by 1987 and the Gippsland line electrification was dismantled by 2004.

Coranderrk was closed in 1924 and its occupants again moved to Lake Tyers in Gippsland.

The Gippsland Medical School, offering postgraduate entry Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery ( MBBS ) courses was officially opened by the Federal Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon on 5 June 2008, providing students with a unique opportunity to learn medicine in a rural setting working with rural practitioners.

Over 60 players have been drafted from Gippsland Power onto Australian Football League club lists since the first player was drafted in 1993.

The most recent premiership won in the Gippsland League ( or equivalent ) by a team based in the Latrobe Valley was Traralgon Maroons in 2005.