Bruthen
Sign in to saveBruthen is a town located alongside the Tambo River between Bairnsdale and Ensay on the Great Alpine Road in East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. At the 2016 census, Bruthen had a population of 814. Bruthen is east of Bairnsdale and east of the state capital Melbourne.
Key facts
- Australian place.type
- town
- Australian place.name
- Bruthen
- Australian place.state
- vic
- Australian place.image
- GreatAlpineRd,-Bruthen,-Vic.jpg
- Australian place.caption
- Looking east along the Great Alpine Road in Bruthen from the western side of town
- Australian place.lga
- Shire of East Gippsland
- Australian place.postcode
- 3885
- Australian place.pop
- 814
- Australian place.use_lga_map
- yes
- Australian place.county
- Buln Buln
- Australian place.stategov
- Gippsland East
- Australian place.fedgov
- Gippsland
- Australian place.dist1
- 311
- Australian place.location1
- Melbourne
- Australian place.dir1
- E
- Australian place.dist2
- 26
- Australian place.location2
- Bairnsdale
- Australian place.dir2
- E
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Bruthen is a town located alongside the Tambo River between Bairnsdale and Ensay on the Great Alpine Road in East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. At the 2016 census, Bruthen had a population of 814. Bruthen is east of Bairnsdale and east of the state capital Melbourne.
==History== thumb|240px|right|All that remains of the RAAF jet that crashed at Bruthen in 1958 The origin of the name Bruthen is disputed. One version has it as an anglicisation of the Scotts-gaelic word 'Sruthán' meaning 'creek' or 'small stream', given to the location where Deep Creek flows into the Tambo River by Angus McMillan in 1840. Another version has it as named after one of the last of the Indigenous traditional elders of the GanaiKurnai Brabiralung tribe of the immediate area, Bruthen-munji, who died in approximately 1862. The area was later renamed Tambo, and changed again to Wiseleigh when the township of Bruthen was established at the new permanent location. Alfred Howitt claimed the proper name for the area around Bruthen was Murloo, meaning ‘pipeclay’.