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ItemDune morphology and the evolution of the Shallow Inlet spit, Waratah Bay( 1989)No abstract available
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ItemWays to Woods Point: the history of a mountain goldfield and its roads( 1985)The Woods Point goldfields, extending from Jamieson to Walhalla, rank as Victoria's richest auriferous region after the Bendigo goldfields (Figure 1). Two mines in the Woods Point goldfields are Victoria's best producers over time : The Long Tunnel at Walhalla with 1,691,572 ounces of gold and The Morning Star at Woods Point with 868,407 ounces of gold. Gold mining at Woods Point spanned a century and although worthy of attention, there is no literature that explains why gold production fluctuated and finally stopped. Also lacking is an account of Woods Point's long-term history and without such a temporal background it is difficult to understand the processes responsible for today's spatial forms. There is no comprehensive record of the routes that foot and later wheeled traffic used to connect Woods Point with Melbourne and no reason given for the number of alternative roads. Some local historians appreciate Woods Point's influence on the prosperity of their province, but this recognition had not been collated into a study from Woods Point's perspective. There is no analysis of the continued survival, without obvious financial inputs, of Woods Point township. This thesis, while reconstructing Woods Point's history and deducing reasons for the erratic gold output and final mine closure, will evaluate Woods Point's significance in the evolution of road links and settlements east of Melbourne. The concluding purpose is to examine the contemporary functions contributing to Woods Point's viability. To achieve the first objective, information will be extracted from references and sorted into an historical sequence. More particularly, a reconstruction of the reasons behind human responses, apparent from this historical record, will be attempted. It is expected that some of these reasons are geographic - geology, topography and climate : some political - availability of official funds and local government policies : and some economic - international gold price and level of overseas demand.
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ItemTallangatta as a service centre 1850 - 1981: An historical perspective( 1981)A wide, dusty street, once lined with shops, trampled successively by bullock drays, horse-drawn coaches, bicycles, motor cars, and several generations of people, today stands empty, leads nowhere, and is frequently inundated (Plates 1 and 2]. Towong Street, the main street of Tallangatta in North-East Victoria, has been at the centre of many changes between 1850 and 1981. It has served as part of the Murray Valley Highway, experienced gold rushes, the town's growth into a commercial centre, and was moved four miles down the valley in 1956 to make way for the waters of the Hume Reservoir. An investigation of the physical and economic development of Old and New Tallangatta is the subject of this thesis.
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ItemThe management of crown river frontages: Upper King River, north eastern Victoria( 1983)It is the purpose of this thesis to examine problems in management of the Crown River Frontages of the Upper King River, North-Eastern Victoria. Management, in the context of this study, is defined as the application, by responsible governmental agencies, of legislation enacted in relation to river frontages. This approach provides a 'base level' with which the present condition of the river frontage will be compared. This comparison should provide a degree of explanation as to why the the Crown River Frontages are in their present condition.
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ItemA Geographic study of the Oberon Bay dune system, Wilson's Prom Victoria( 1984)No abstract available
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ItemA study of the effects of the development of Rainbow Creek on land use( 1984)Rainbow Creek is an anabranch of the Thomson River, Victoria (figure 1.1). It broke away from the Thomson River during a large flood in June 1952 (plate 1.1), leaving the Thomson River near the apex of an alluvial fan at the mouth of the Cowwarr Gorge (State Rivers and Water Supply Commission (SRWSC), 1980). The most important land use in the area through which Rainbow Creek cuts is agriculture. Dairying on both irrigated and non-irrigated pastures was the dominant form of agriculture at the time of the breakaway. Today, dairying and the grazing of beef cattle are almost equally prominent, while cropping is of secondary importance. Irrigation is important for all of these agricultural activities. The main forms of non-agricultural land use which are found in the area adjacent to Rainbow Creek are conservation, recreation and rural settlement. No public land has been reserved specifically for conservation, but some privately owned land has been set aside for this purpose. The main forms of recreation which are pursued in this area are picnicking and fishing. Rural settlement is concentrated in the township of Cowwarr. A report by the SRWSC (1980) mentioned ways in which Rainbow Creek has affected agriculture. These include the disruption of access within properties, the loss of productive land and the increase in the availability of water for irrigation on the properties bisected by Rainbow Creek, and a reduction in the availability of irrigation water along the segment of the Thomson River which is bypassed by the new stream. However, these were not discussed in depth, and the effects of Rainbow Creek on non-agricultural land use were not mentioned in this report. No other investigations into the effects of the development of Rainbow Creek on land use have been carried out. A search of the literature has failed to reveal any evidence of detailed investigations into the effects of avulsive river channel migration on land use in other areas. Discussions of the effects of river channel migration on land use, other than in relation to boundary disputes (for example, Bowman, 1923, Rutherford, 1983), have been confined to brief comments (for example, Freeman, 1922, Mosley, 1975). The purpose of this thesis is to examine the effects of the development and continued existence of Rainbow Creek on aspects of agriculture and conservation.
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ItemThe provision of child care services within the inner Melbourne municipality of Northcote( 1983)No abstract available
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ItemThe decline and restructuring of dairy manufacture in the Shires of Myrtleford and Oxley( 1983)No abstract available
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