Gunaikurnai people are the traditional owners of Gippsland. There are approximately 3, Gunaikurnai people, and the territory includes the coastal and inland areas to the southern slopes of the Victorian Alps. Gunaikurnai people are made up of five major cians. The estimated population of Bairnsdale urban area was 15, at June Bairnsdale was first proclaimed a shire on 16 July [4] and it was proclaimed as a city on 14 July The origin of the city's name is uncertain. It was possibly Bernisdale, with "Bernis-dale" originating from "Bjorn's dale, or glen", which indicates the Viking origins of the Skye Village.
Legend has it that Macleod was so impressed by the large number of children on the run, the children of his stockmen, that he called it Bairns-dale, or "valley of the children". In the Bairnsdale Shire, which went on to become one of the largest in Victoria in the s, was led out of administrative chaos by former shire auditor and shipping agent Herman Bredt. He had also acted as a mine manager for the nearby Sons of Freedom mine. Prior to this she had worked at the Bairnsdale Hospital.
In this period the Main Street was fashioned but was unsealed thereby causing extensive problems of dust in the summer and mud in the winter. Asphalting didn't take place until Nicholson Street was formed in and MacLeod Street followed in Bairnsdale is sited on a bend of the Mitchell River , with the river flowing from the west along the northern edge of the town, before turning south to flow along the eastern edge, although suburbs are now found across the river to both north and east, e.
Wy Yung, Eastwood and Lucknow. The Mitchell, Tambo and Nicholson rivers deliver a combined discharge of 1. The lower reaches of the Latrobe River , Thomson River and Mitchell River flow into the Gippsland Lakes and have extensive floodplains in which there are large wetlands, often separated by natural levees from the main river channels.
The Mitchell river flats were always prone to flooding and bore witness to the flood that was only second in extent to the great floods of All floods caused the township great suffering with loss of life, infrastructure and crops. The flooding that occurred in the β94 was notable for the gallantry of Patrick Piggott and George Brooks who both worked to rescue people.
