35-673: Colac can refer to: Colac, Victoria , a town in Australia City of Colac , a former local-government area in Victoria, Australia Shire of Colac , a former local-government area in Victoria, Australia Shire of Colac Otway , a current local-government area in Victoria, Australia Colac Botanic Gardens , in Colac, Australia Colac railway station , in Colac, Australia Lake Colac in Victoria, Australia Colac (mountain) , in
70-899: A year in March. Golfers play at the Colac Golf Club on Colac–Lavers Hill Road, Elliminyt. Colac has a swimming club which trains swimmers and has athletes competing at Region, State and national competitions. Colac has a baseball club, the Colac Braves, a team which competes in the Geelong Baseball Association winter competition and the Pan-Pacific Masters Games on the Gold Coast. The Colac Braves also cater for players aged 5 to 15. The Braves have claimed recent premiership success in
105-565: Is a small city in the Western District of Victoria, Australia , approximately 150 kilometres south-west of Melbourne on the southern shore of Lake Colac . For thousands of years clans of the Gulidjan people lived the region of Colac. The British first entered the region in March 1837, when several land-holders came upon Lake Colac while searching for the missing colonist Joseph Gellibrand . Another larger search party, which
140-714: Is also the hometown of Luke Hodge , from 2002 a player with Hawthorn Football Club (captain 2011 to 2016) and player with Brisbane Football Club in the Australian Football League since October 2017. Colac has a horse racing club , the Colac Turf Club, which schedules around four race meetings a year including the Colac Cup meeting in February. It also has a picnic horse racing club , Colac St Patrick Picnic, which holds its one race meeting
175-672: Is owned by Network 10 but is now broadcast by WIN Television who also transmit WIN HD channel 9HD and GOLD . The city also receives Seven , 7two , 7mate , ishop tv , Racing.com , 7Bravo and 7flix (sub-licensees of the Seven Network ) which were unaffected by July's change. In addition to commercial television services, Colac receives Government ABC Television which includes ABC TV , ABC HD , ABC TV Plus (Daily from 7.30pm to 2am, Station Close daily from 2am to 5am), ABC Kids (Daily from 5am to 7.30pm), ABC Me (Daily from 6am to 11pm approximately) and ABC News as well as
210-404: Is possible that it will dry completely. In 1980 the salinity was approximately that of seawater and has since risen at least four times that of seawater. Aquatic fauna once included fish species such as short-finned eel , common galaxias , flat-headed gudgeon and small-mouth hardyhead . These may still survive in refuges such as Pirron Yaloak creek and various freshwater springs flowing from
245-578: Is serviced by Foxtel delivered by DTH satellite transmission, via Optus C1 Ku Band Satellite located at 156E. Colac is home to a number of teams in the Colac & District Football and Netball League combining both Australian Rules football clubs and netball clubs from around the district. The Colac Football Club , formerly of the CDFNL, compete in the Geelong Football League . Colac
280-636: Is serviced by a number of local radio stations: 3CS 1134AM, MIXX FM 106.3 MHz, and OCR FM Community Radio Station 98.3 MHz and 88.7 MHz in Apollo Bay and surrounds. Narrowcast radio station 3GL 1341AM, owned and operated by Geelong Broadcasters , is also broadcasting in Colac on 88.0 MHz, transmitting on a power of 1-watt. Some FM radio services direct from Ballarat , including 3BA and Power FM can also be received clearly in Colac. Most digital terrestrial television services are received via UHF from Ballarat Lookout Hill. In addition to
315-433: Is typical of lakes in the area, the eastern flanks of the lake consist of lunettes formed by wind borne sediments blown from the lake during periods with dry climates. Flow into the lake is extremely variable and negligible in the driest years. Currently it is endorheic (there is no outflow) but during the wet decade of the 1950s the lake flooded and became connected via a series of wetlands and lakes to Lake Murdeduke and
350-676: The Barwon River . It has never been completely dry since European settlement, and there is evidence it was an open lake for centuries prior to the 1840s when rainfall and runoff were similar to those of the 1950s. The main inflows are from Pirron Yaloak Creek flowing from the Otway plains to the south, the Woady Yaloak River flowing from the flanks of the Victorian Midlands to the north, and Salt Creek flowing from
385-839: The SBS 's owned channels of SBS , SBS HD , SBS Viceland , National Indigenous Television , SBS Food , SBS World Movies and SBS WorldWatch . Analog Television transmissions ceased on Thursday 5 May 2011 as part of the Federal Government's nationwide plan for Digital terrestrial television in Australia , which involves switching over all television broadcast services from analog systems to digital DVB-T systems. FM radio services direct from Melbourne and Geelong can be received in Colac but signal levels are low. Television services direct from Melbourne can be received in Colac but large antenna arrays must be used with mixed results. Colac
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#1732773330803420-640: The Alvie line opened in 1923 and closed in 1954. A narrow gauge branch line also originated from the town, the branch line to Beech Forest opened in 1902 and was extended to Crowes in 1911, finally closing in 1962. The route of the abandoned railway has been developed as the Old Beechy Rail Trail . The local railway station is served by V/Line passenger services on the Warrnambool line . The train stops at Camperdown and Terang . Colac
455-584: The Ballarat service, a local repeater on nearby Warrion Hill provides an alternative source of television reception. As of August 2022, Television channels available include Southern Cross 10 , 10HD , 10 Bold , 10 Peach , 10 Shake and Sky News Regional . These stations are now broadcast by Southern Cross Austereo after affiliate changes occurred in July 2021. This change included 9Gem , 9Go! and 9Life which are owned by Nine Network except TVSN which
490-679: The C161, C155 and C154 run south toward Apollo Bay and the coastal tourism areas of the Otway Ranges Great Ocean Road , The Twelve Apostles and the Shipwreck Coast . The Colac-Ballarat Road runs north connecting Colac to Ballarat via Cressy . The railway through the town was opened in 1877, and extended from 1883 as part of the line to the south west of the state. The Irrewarra-Cressy line towards Ballarat also ran from Colac between 1889 and 1953 and
525-699: The Colac Otway Arts Trail takes place. Featuring artists, studios and galleries in the Colac Otway Shire the trail also feature the 'Art Walk on Murray' where local artists display their work in the windows of the shops along the Murray Street precinct. With a wealth of natural resources, such as agriculture and timber, Colac has a strong manufacturing background, with major local employers including Bulla Dairy Foods , Australian Lamb Company, and AKD Softwoods. While historically
560-738: The Geelong Baseball Association with wins in 2008, 2009 and 2010. The Colac Otway Rovers AFC is the region's only football (soccer) club established in 2010. The club entered the Football Federation Victoria —Geelong Region in 2011—fielding a team in the Men's Division 3 Competition. The Colac Otway Rovers conducts a Small Sided Football Program for juniors and an indoor soccer competition. The Colac Basketball Association hosts summer and winter competitions at Colac's Bluewater stadium. The clubs are Saints, Hawks, Demons and Rebels. The association also has representative teams known as
595-702: The Italian Dolomites Colac Bay , New Zealand HMAS Colac , a ship of the Royal Australian Navy Kalach (food) , spelled colac in Romania, traditional East Slavic bread, also common in Hungary, Romania, and Serbia Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Colac . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
630-585: The Kookas. The juniors compete in tournaments, while the senior teams compete in Basketball Victoria Country's Country Basketball League. [REDACTED] Media related to Colac, Victoria at Wikimedia Commons Lake Corangamite Lake Corangamite / k ə ˈ r æ ŋ ɡ ə m aɪ t / , a hypersaline endorheic lake , is located near Colac in the Lakes and Craters region of
665-527: The Prime Minister Joseph Cook . The two speeches declared Australia's commitment to follow Britain into World War I , with Fisher declaring "Should honor demand the mother country taking part in hostilities, Australians would stand beside her to the last man and shilling." and Cook's famous reiteration that "If the old country is at war, so are we." Fisher became Prime Minister for the third time on 5 September. The War Memorial stands in
700-611: The Victorian Volcanic Plains of south-west Victoria , Australia . The lake's salinity levels have increased dramatically as the lake level has dropped in recent decades. It is Australia's largest permanent saline lake, covering approximately 230 square kilometres (89 sq mi) with a circumference of 150 kilometres (93 mi). It forms part of the Ramsar-listed Western District Lakes wetland site. The Aboriginal name of
735-423: The centre of Memorial Square. Colac contains a number of heritage listed sites, including: The plains around Colac are the third largest volcanic plain in the world. Australia's largest permanent salt lake and Victoria 's largest natural lake, Lake Corangamite , is nearby and Red Rock Reserve is nearby too. Lake Colac's water level can drop over summer dry periods to the point that it actually dried up for
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#1732773330803770-580: The colonies, which have now been abandoned. After receiving substantial grants from the government to undertake conservation works, the owner of Vaugn Island used earth moving equipment to remove habitat such as rocks and remnant vegetation. The lake forms part of the Lake Corangamite Complex Important Bird Area , so identified by BirdLife International because it sometimes supports globally important numbers of waterbirds . A crashed World War II RAAF Wirraway
805-532: The court that Geary had killed Brookhouse with an axe to stop him from informing Murray of Geary's sheep stealing activities. Geary was hanged in Melbourne in 1871. A plaque on the southern side of the Memorial Square commemorates two historic speeches given on consecutive nights in Colac, beginning on 31 July 1914 with the then Federal opposition leader, Andrew Fisher , and followed the next night by
840-412: The first time in recorded history in 2009, but is always replenished after drought and is used for fishing, boating and water skiing. The Princes Highway (part of Australia 's circumnavigational Highway 1 ) runs through the city and forms its main street , Murray Street. The highway runs west toward Camperdown and east to Geelong and beyond to Melbourne. Several secondary sealed roads including
875-406: The lake is recorded as Kronimite . The waterbody is surrounded to the south and east by rocky outcrops (known locally as the stony rises ) which were formed by lava flows from Mount Porndon to the south-west and Mount Warrion to the east. The Red Rock volcanic complex overlooks the south east shore at Alvie. The Mount Warrion flows caused the lake to form by blocking drainage to the east. As
910-434: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Colac&oldid=1174948677 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Colac, Victoria Colac / ˈ k oʊ l æ k /
945-551: The plains to the north-west. The Pirron Yaloak has high nutrient loads due to dairy farming in its catchment. In response to the floods of the 1950s, the Woady Yaloak was diverted away from Lake Corangamite and into the Barwon River. The diversion is managed on the basis of a trigger level for the lake, above which the diversion is enacted. This has not occurred in recent years. Levels have been dropping for decades and it
980-649: The region supported numerous successful brickworks, nowadays the major primary industries are agriculture, such as the dairy, beef, lamb and fine-wool merino industries. Colac is the sister city of Walker, Michigan , USA . Colac has a temperate mediterranean climate ( Csb ) with mild summers and cool damp winters, with chilly nights year round owing to its far southern location on the Australian mainland. It records only 55.3 clear days on average, with 181.0 cloudy days. Colac has its own newspaper, The Colac Herald , published on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Colac
1015-537: The resident Gulidjan was limited, with one Aboriginal man being shot dead during punitive raids upon Aboriginal settlements following the taking of sheep. In 1841, around forty Gulidjan lived and worked on what was now Murray's property. The surveying for a village began in 1841 and the township of Lake Colac was proclaimed in 1848. The Post Office opened on 1 July 1848 as Lake Colac and was renamed Colac in 1854. Colac Botanic Gardens in Queen Street located on
1050-569: The shores of Lake Colac, were established in 1868. In 1854 town founder Hugh Murray employed a couple of shepherds named Thomas Brookhouse and Patrick Geary. Brookhouse, who was looking for missing sheep disappeared without a trace. Patrick Geary and his wife soon left the district. Fifteen years later a boy out rabbiting found the skeletal remains of Thomas Brookhouse under a pile of rocks near Lake Corangamite . Brookhouse had his head smashed in. It took Police two years to track Patrick Geary and charge him with Brookhouse's murder. A friend of Geary told
1085-648: The stony rises on the south west side of the lake. Springs on the south east side have dried – possibly due to over exploitation of the Warrion Aquifer for irrigation. More recently the fauna included brine shrimp and a species of isopod . In the past the lake has supported internationally significant numbers of banded stilts . The lake was previously an important breeding site for waterbirds. Most recently pelican colonies occurred at Wool Wool rocks and Vaughan Island. However, as water levels have dropped, prey have disappeared and foxes have gained access to
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1120-473: The third Saturday of March. Many market stalls, children's entertainment and a song and dance stage can be found at the festival. The most popular feature of the festival is its parade through the streets of Colac's CBD. The parade showcases local primary schools and their students as well as local clubs, emergency service organisations and businesses. On the last week-end of October, first weekend in November
1155-579: Was acting on information that local Gulidjan had killed Gellibrand, arrived in April. This group returned to Geelong after two Gulidjan people were killed by Aboriginal trackers accompanying the party. Settlement of the area began in September 1837 with the arrival of grazier Hugh Murray (died 1869) who selected 14,000 ha (34,000 acres) of land and established three sheep stations : Warrion, Elliminyt and Barongarook. According to Murray, conflict with
1190-758: Was discovered in June 2005 in Lake Corangamite. Heritage Victoria protects all aircraft crash sites over 50 years old as historic archaeological sites, and the RAAF was briefed on the find. The site was recently exposed by receding water levels in the lake and reported by Parks Victoria officers to Heritage Victoria. The site appears intact and remains mostly submerged. The plane is believed to be Wirraway A20-406 (incorrectly attributed to A20-405 in some accounts), which crashed into Lake Corangamite, 400 metres (1,300 ft) from shore, on 17 March 1943. In August 2021
1225-403: Was the home of the annual " Cliff Young Australian 6-day race ". The event, which was originally orchestrated by Stuart Walker, occurred for over 20 years until 2006 and is a running/walking event. It was held on the Memorial Square which is right in the heart of Colac and attracted entries from all over the world. Also held at the Memorial Square is the annual Colac KANA festival taking place on
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