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    portal List of rivers of Australia § Victoria Warby-Ovens National Park The Ovens River at Porepunkah Tobacco crops in the Ovens Valley The Ovens Valley, as...
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    tributaries Darling River Murrumbidgee River Goulburn River Mitta Mitta River Ovens River Campaspe River Kiewa River Lachlan River Population centres Albury-Wodonga...
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  • Riverina region of New South Wales and the Ovens and Murray area. The name comes from the Ovens River, the river in the part of north-eastern Victoria covered...
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    Hamilton Hume and William Hovell explored the area in 1824, naming the Ovens River. The town was first known as Morse's Creek after F.H. Morse but in 1861...
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  • up ovens in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ovens are thermally insulated chambers used for cooking. Ovens may also refer to: Ovens River, a river in...
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    Ovens (or The Ovens) was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1856 to 1927. It was based in northern...
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    joining with the Ovens River at Porepunkah. Formed by the east and west branches of the river, the headwaters of the Buckland River rise in the Barry...
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    and Australian explorer John Ovens (1788–1825) and for whom the Victorian river Ovens was named. During her career, Ovens was the first RAN submarine to...
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    footbridge of the Avoca River at Charlton, 2005 Goulburn River at Murchison, 2009 Ovens River at Porepunkah, 2007 Mitta Mitta River, downstream from Dartmouth...
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    Alpine Shire local government area and on the banks of the Ovens River, near the Buckland River junction. At the 2016 census, Porepunkah had a population...
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    confluence with the Ovens River at Wangaratta. The river descends 1,320 metres (4,330 ft) over its 126-kilometre (78 mi) course. The river is impounded by...
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    Ovens is a town in north east Victoria, Australia located at the junction of the Ovens River and Happy Valley Creek. At the 2016 census, Ovens and the...
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    Coke (fuel) (redirect from Coke ovens)
    coke oven battery, a number of ovens are built in a row with common walls between neighboring ovens. A battery consisted of a great many ovens, sometimes...
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    of river systems in Victoria. Most notable is the Murray River system. Other rivers include: Ovens River, Goulburn River, Patterson River, King River, Campaspe...
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    The Electoral district of Ovens (also known as The Ovens) was an electoral district of the old unicameral Victorian Legislative Council of 1851 to 1856...
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  • suggestion is that it means "underwater". The town is in the valley of the Ovens River and in the Rural City of Wangaratta local government area, 274 kilometres...
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    in the fertile King Valley, near the King River, which flows from the Victorian Alps and joins the Ovens River in Wangaratta. The town is about 2.5 hours...
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  • joining with the Ovens River west of Myrtleford. Formed by the east and west branches of the river, the headwaters of the Buffalo River rise in the Barry...
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    founding a settlement known as "Ovens Crossing". The Post Office in the area opened on 1 February 1843 as Ovens. The Ovens office, and the Kilmore office...
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    northern end of the King Valley wine region, between the King River to the west and Ovens River to the north (they meet in Wangaratta). Milawa is the hub...
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  • of Ben Warby, a pastoralist who settled in the area in 1844, and the Ovens River. Initially reserved as a state park in 1978, the national park was declared...
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    - an increase of 62.1% from the 2002 Census. Ovens is within the Cork North-West Dáil constituency. Ovens is also a civil parish and the village is also...
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    personal encounter of the bushranger Meakin at Dr. Mackay's station on the Ovens River in 1854. Meakin had come to stick up the station, and in search of a...
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    protects beehive-shaped charcoal ovens constructed in the latter half of the 19th century. Ovens The charcoal ovens are associated with the silver mining...
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    consists of five batteries of 268 beehive ovens, which operated under various companies until the early 1920s. The ovens are now listed on the National Register...
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  • retribution for Faithfull’s men shooting at the Aboriginal men on the Ovens River a week prior while another suggests that it was “revenge for the illicit...
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  • This is a table of river distances of various locations along the Murray River upstream from Echuca, Victoria and Mannum, South Australia, arguably the...
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    Show) was hosted in 1860 by the Ovens and Murray Agricultural and Horticultural Association on land near the Ovens River, Wangaratta. The Boxing Day Wangaratta...
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    curiosities. A shepherd named Smith thought that he had found gold near the Ovens River in 1844, and reported the matter to Charles La Trobe, who advised him...
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  • Electoral district of Wangaratta and Ovens was created at that time. John Bowser represented Wangaratta and Ovens from July 1927, retiring from parliament...
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