Korumburra is a town in in the Australian state of Victoria. It is located on the South Gippsland Highway, 118 kilometres south-east of Melbourne, in the South Gippsland Shire local government area. The states and territories of Australia make up the Commonwealth of Australia under a federal system of government. ... Capital Melbourne Government Constitutional monarchy Governor David de Kretser Premier Steve Bracks (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 37  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $222,022 (2nd)  - Product per capita  $44,443/person (5th) Population (End of September 2006)  - Population  5,110,500 (2nd)  - Density  22. ... The South Gippsland Highway is a highway in Victoria, Australia and connects the city of Melbourne with the South Gippsland region of Victoria. ... Melbournes CBD has grown to straddle the Yarra River in three major precincts. ... South Gippsland Shire is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia. ...

Surrounded by rolling green hills, the town is 227 metres above the sea level of neighbouring coastal Inverloch (27km). The population in 1996 was 2739, ranking it as the 67th largest locality in Victoria. The name is believed to be derived from the Aboriginal word meaning 'blow-fly'. Inverloch is a seaside village in Victoria, Australia. ... Indigenous Australians or Aborigines[1][2] are the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands. ... Subfamilies Blow-flies (also frequently spelled blow flies or blowflies) are members of the family Calliphoridae of flies (Diptera). ...

Korumburra is known as the "Heritage Centre of South Gippsland". It is the home of Coal Creek Heritage Village which depicts life in the area over the period of the 1870s to 1920s, as the town rapidly expanded following the discovery of a coal seam. The outdoor museum covers 30 acres of bushland, including 60 exhibits. Coal Creek is a small town in the South Gippsland area of Victoria, Australia. ...

Other town attractions include the Olympic pool (open November-March), two-court basketball stadium, livestock saleyards, art gallery, tourist railway and 18-hole golf course. The towns main industries include dairy and beef. Korumburra is home to the world's largest earthworms. Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005. ... The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. ... This article is about the sport of golf. ... A dairy farm near Oxford, New York in the United States. ... For other uses, see Beef (disambiguation). ... Binomial name Megascolides australis McCoy, 1878 The giant Gippsland earthworm (Megascolides australis), is one of Australias 1000 native earthworm species. ...

In the winter of 2005, Korumburra was blanketed in snow for the first time in almost twenty years. Local residents were seen skiing the tenth fairway at the Korumburra Golf Club, and many were featured on the front page of both The Age and The Herald Sun newspapers. The Age is a broadsheet daily newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. ... The Herald Sun is a newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that is published by The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ...

References

• Victoria's feeling for snow, The Age, August 11, 2005

Coordinates: 38°26′S, 145°49′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...

korumburra means blow fly hehehe