Warrnambool
Sign in to saveWarrnambool ( ; Maar: Peetoop or Wheringkernitch or Warrnambool) is a city on the south-western coast of Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 census, Warrnambool had a population of 32,894. Situated on the Princes Highway, Warrnambool (Allansford) marks the western end of the Great Ocean Road and the southern end of the Hopkins Highway.
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Key facts
- Australian place.type
- city
- Australian place.name
- Warrnambool
- Australian place.state
- vic
- Australian place.image
- View from Pickering Point, Warrnambool.JPG
- Australian place.caption
- Warrnambool foreshore from Pickering Point
- Australian place.pop
- 32,894
- Australian place.lga
- City of Warrnambool
- Australian place.use_lga_map
- yes
- Australian place.postcode
- 3280
- Australian place.est
- 1855
- Australian place.timezone
- AEST
- Australian place.utc
- +10
- Australian place.maxtemp
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- Inception
- 1855
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Australia
- Located in
- City of Warrnambool
- Population
- +32894
- Elevation
- +24
- Body of water
- Hopkins River
- Capital of
- City of Warrnambool
- Shares border with
- Allansford
- Image
- Warrnambool, Victoria.JPG
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Warrnambool ( ; Maar: Peetoop or Wheringkernitch or Warrnambool) is a city on the south-western coast of Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 census, Warrnambool had a population of 32,894. Situated on the Princes Highway, Warrnambool (Allansford) marks the western end of the Great Ocean Road and the southern end of the Hopkins Highway.
== History == ===Origin of name=== The name "Warrnambool" originated from Mount Warrnambool, a scoria cone volcano 25 kilometres northeast of the town. Warrnambool (or Warrnoobul) was the title of both the volcano and the clan of Aboriginal Australian people who lived there. In the local language, the prefix Warnn- designated home or hut, while the meaning of the suffix -ambool is now unknown. William Fowler Pickering, the colonial government surveyor who in 1845 was tasked with the initial planning of the township, chose to name the town Warrnambool. The traditional Indigenous owners of the land today are the Dhauwurd Wurrung people, also known as the Gunditjmara.
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