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Dartmouth

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Towong Shire Council VIC, PO Box 55, Dartmouth, VIC 3701
02 6071 5100

Description

Dartmouth is a town in Victoria, Australia.

Dartmouth is a town in Victoria, Australia.

It was established in 1973 as a construction camp for workers working on the Dartmouth Dam and the Post Office opened on 1 March 1973. (An earlier Post Office had existed in the rural locality from 1910 until 1930).The dam was built very close to the mouth of the Dart river where it joined the Mitta Mitta river and is a major reservoir in the Murray-Darling River system, on the Mitta Mitta River.Today Dartmouth is a village with a permanent population around 45 people. It caters to fisherman, tourists and local workers who maintain the dam and the now two power stations.

While the dam was being built by the SR&WSC of Victoria the population was around 2000, many of those people were employed by Thiess Bros.

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Type: Towns

Population: 101 - 1,000

Time zone: UTC +11:00

Area: 938.307 km2

Elevation: 201 to 500 metres

Town elevation: 373 m

Population number: 104

Local Government Area: Towong Shire Council

Location

Towong Shire Council VIC, PO Box 55, Dartmouth, VIC 3701

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This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Dartmouth, Victoria