Traralgon Travel Guide
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Located on the Princes Highway, Traralgon is one of the LaTrobe Valley's main cities and a major industrial centre boasting some of the biggest engineering projects in Australia.
The first settler in the area, Edward Hobson in 1846, named the town for the Aboriginal words 'tarra', meaning river, and 'algon', meaning little fish. The original township was a rest stop and supply base for miners and drovers heading into the gold and farming country of Gippsland, and with the advent of the railway in 1877 Traralgon became the centre of an important manufacturing district.
Today Traralgon is a centre for the state's paper and pulp industry and home to the Southern Hemisphere's largest power station, Loy Yang.
Geographic Location
164km east of Melbourne
Population
19,000
Climate
Cool temperate
Summer: 11 – 24°C
Winter: 4 – 13°C
Rainfall: 900mm/year
Associated Towns
Churchill,
Hazelwood,
Moe,
Morwell,
Newborough,
Sale, Yallourn North