[00]

Long Gully

Towns & Destinations

City of Greater Bendigo VIC, PO Box 733, Long Gully, VIC 3550
03 5434 6000

Description

Long Gully is a suburb of the regional city of Bendigo in Victoria, Australia 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) north-west of the Bendigo central business district.

Long Gully is a suburb of the regional city of Bendigo in Victoria, Australia 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) north-west of the Bendigo central business district. At the 2016 census, Long Gully had a population of 3,383.Long Gully is a working-class suburb of Bendigo, featuring many older style fibro houses, punctuated by well-established light industry. The suburb is the location of the Bendigo RSL club, in Havilah Road.

Long Gully was heavily affected by the Black Saturday bushfires, causing one death.It is the birthplace of Dick Richards, GC (14 November 1894 – 8 May 1986). Richards was an Australian science teacher who joined Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in December 1914 as a physicist with the Ross Sea Party. He was 22 years old. He outlived all other members of the expedition, and became the last survivor of the so-called "Heroic Age" of Antarctic exploration, dying at the age of 91 in 1986. His life saving feats in the Antarctic are detailed in the book Shackleton's Heroes.

History
Weather
Things to do

Details

Type: Suburbs

Population: 1,001 - 10,000

Time zone: UTC +11:00

Area: 3.478 km2

Elevation: 201 to 500 metres

Town elevation: 243 m

Population number: 3,383

Local Government Area: City of Greater Bendigo

Location

City of Greater Bendigo VIC, PO Box 733, Long Gully, VIC 3550

Get Directions

Attribution

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