Colac is a town in the western district of Victoria, Australia, situated on the southern shore of Lake Colac. The area was first settled by Hugh Murray in 1837 and proclaimed a town in 1948.
Colac is a town in the western district of Victoria, Australia, situated approximately 150 kilometres south-west of Melbourne on the southern shore of Lake Colac.
Colac Botanic Gardens in Queen Street located on the shores of Lake Colac, were established in 1868, and remodelled in 1910 by William Guilfoyle and include a huge diversity of plants with many old and rare trees and a rose arbour.
Colac is serviced by Austar Subscribtion Television delivered by DTH satellite transmission, via Optus C1 Ku Band Satellite located at 156E.
Colac is a commercial and civic service centre of about 14 500 people located at the eastern edge of the world's third-largest volcanic plain which is scattered with craters and cones.
Colac is also known as 'the Gateway to the Otways' (a reference to the nearby Otway Ranges and surrounding forest to the south of town).
The settlement at Colac, one of the earlier townships in the Port Phillip district, emerged around a coaching inn which was established in 1844 at the southern end of the lake (at what is now the corner of Hesse and Murray Streets).
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