The Latrobe Valley is nestled between the Strzelecki Ranges and the Great Dividing Range in Victoria, Australia. It is named after the Latrobe River which flows, eastwards, through it. Consisting of several cities, towns and farming communities, it is most famous for its abundant resources of brown coal, which are mined and fed to the local power stations that produce 85% of the electricity for the entire state of Victoria. Strzelecki Ranges, also known as Strzelecki Hills is a low mountain range situated in the Gippsland region of south-eastern Australia between the Latrobe Valley to the north and Bass Strait to the south. ... The Great Divide runs around the entire eastern and south-eastern edge of Australia The Great Dividing Range (a. ... Motto: Peace and Prosperity Other Australian states and territories Capital Melbourne Governor HE Mr John Landy Premier Steve Bracks (ALP) Area 237,629 km² (6th)  - Land 227,416 km²  - Water 10,213 km² (4. ... Sydney, Australia at Night. ... Main street in Bastrop, Texas, a small town A town is a residential community of people ranging from a few hundred to several thousands, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas. ... Farming, ploughing rice paddy, in Indonesia Agriculture is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and other desired products by cultivation of certain plants and the raising of domesticated animals (livestock). ... Coal Coal is a fossil fuel extracted from the ground by mining. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Major cities include Traralgon, Morwell and Moe. Smaller towns are Tyers, Newborough, Yallourn North and Erica. (The original Yallourn being relocated due to the Open Cut Coal Mine), Churchill (site of the local campus of Monash University) and Boolarra. Traralgon is an industrial and agricultural town and largest town in the Latrobe Valley in Australia. ... Morwell is a large country town in the Gippsland area of eastern Victoria (Australia). ... Moe (postcode: 3825, 38°10´S 146°14´E) is a town in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. ... Tyers is a tiny town in Victoria (Australia) with a very pretty setting in the foothills of Mt Baw Baw. ... Newborough is a town/suburb directly adjacent to Moe, in the Latrobe Valley. ... Erica is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on Rawson Road, in the Baw Baw Shire. ... Yallourn, Victoria was built in the 1920s to house employees of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria who operated the nearby Yallourn Power Station complex. ... Churchill began as a service centre for the Hazlewood Power Station and future replacement for Yallourn and Morwell townships. ... The Universitätscampus Wien, Austria ( details) Campus (plural: campi) is Latin for field or open space. English gets the words camp and campus from this origin. ... Monash University Monash University is Australias largest university with over 55,000 students. ...

There are extensive dairy farms, cattle farms and potato farms, most notably the local Thorpdale region that exports potatoes to the entire nation of Australia and overseas. Dairy farm near Oxford, New York A dairy is a facility for the extraction and processing of animal milk (mostly from cows, sometimes from buffalo, sheep or goats) and other farm animals, for human consumption. ... Binomial name Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1758 Cattle (called cows in vernacular usage) are domesticated ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. ... Binomial name Solanum tuberosum L. The potato (plural form: potatoes) (Solanum tuberosum) is a perennial plant of the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family, grown for its starchy tuber. ... Welcome to Thorpdale - Heart of Potato Country Thorpdale (38°17′S 146°10′E) is a small country town in the Gippsland area of eastern Victoria, Australia, less than 20 km south of Trafalgar. ...

The main city of the Latrobe City Council is Traralgon, and the main hospital is an amalgamation of three local hospitals (Moe, Morwell and Traralgon), and is located on the Princes Highway between Morwell and Traralgon. A physician visiting the sick in a hospital. ... The Princes Highway is a segment of Australias Highway 1 that extends from Sydney to Adelaide, via Melbourne. ...

See also

• Hazelwood power station
• Loy Yang Power Station
• Yallourn Power Station
• Latrobe City

All the major towns are served by Rotary clubs, Rotary club of Morwell, Rotary club of Moe, Hazelwood Rotary Club (Churchill), and Traralgon and Traralgon central rotary clubs. Hazelwood power station, in the Latrobe Valley, Victoria, built in 1964, is described by some green groups to be the most polluting power station of the worlds major industrialised countries. ... Loy Yang Power Station is located on the outskirts of the city of Traralgon, in south eastern Victoria, Australia. ... Yallourn W Power Station at Yallourn is the third largest power station in Victoria, Australia. ... Latrobe City (formerly La Trobe Shire) is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia. ...

External links

• LatrobeFirst: information about services & tourism in the Latrobe Valley