23-588: Gelantipy is a rural locality 49 km. north of Buchan in the East Gippsland region of Australia. There are also two adjoining parishes, Gelantipy East and Gelantipy West, that cover portions of the locality. Wulgulmerang, W Tree and Brumby localities are nearby. Mount Gelantipy, notable for its old growth alpine ash forests is 12 km. east within the Snowy River National Park . The Karoonda Park hostel on Gelantipy Road includes
46-698: A local bus stop and unstaffed fuel service (business hours). The Gelantipy Cemetery, Public Hall and Reserve are several kilometres south, alongside Butchers Creek. The traditional owners of the lands that are now called Gelantipy are the Gunai people . The Scot Edward Bayliss established the Gelantipy pastoral run in 1839 for his employer Edward Lord, a merchant. Gelantipy was a mining area in addition to timber milling and livestock production. The East Gippsland Shire Thematic Environmental History (2005) says: "Traces of silver and lead were found as early as 1857 in
69-405: A population of 385. The town is most well known for the limestone Buchan Caves . Buchan is a rural town, consisting largely of farming land and native vegetation. It is surrounded by the localities of Black Mountain, Buchan South, Butchers Ridge, Canni Creek, Gelantipy , Gillingall, Glenmore, Murrindal, Suggan Buggan, Timbarra, W-Tree, and Wulgulmerang. Buchan is the main town and is located on
92-827: A year with the Canni Creek Cup in February. A rodeo is held at Easter , and the Flowers & Craft Show in November. Golfers play at the Buchan Valley Golf Club. The town has an Australian Rules football team known as the Cavemen, who compete in the Omeo & District Football League . They won the premiership in 1983, 1987, 1998, 2004 and 2005. Buchan Buchan / ˈ b ʌ x ən /
115-560: Is a coastal district in the north-east of Scotland , bounded by the Ythan and Deveron rivers. It was one of the original provinces of the Kingdom of Alba . It is now one of the six committee areas of Aberdeenshire . The genesis of the name Buchan is shrouded in uncertainty, but may be of Pictish origin. The name may involve an equivalent of Welsh buwch meaning "a cow". American academic Thomas Clancy has noted cautiously
138-509: Is place of grass bag and another is a 'place of rocks with holes in them'; however, it is more likely to be named after Buchan , Scotland, given how many of Australia's locations are named after places in the United Kingdom. Farming included cattle, sheep and crops. Wheat, oats, barley, maize, hops, arrowroot and beans were grown on the river flats at various times. Dairying operations, initially for local consumption, commenced prior to
161-516: Is the largest town in Buchan and Aberdeenshire; the principal whitefish-landing port in Europe; and a major oil industry service centre. Equally important is the nearby gas terminal at St Fergus . Remote Radar Head Buchan , a RAF air defence radar unit, is located near Peterhead. Attempts are being made to counter the negative effects of several recent key company closures and economic threats. Inland,
184-703: Is to the west of the River Deveron, in an area where the Earls of Buchan held land as late as the 13th century, suggesting that Buchan's boundaries at this time extended as far west as the River Spey . In Pictish times, Buchan was located within the kingdom of Ce . There is considerable ancient history in this geographic area, especially slightly northwest of Cruden Bay , where the Catto Long Barrow and numerous tumuli are found. At one time,
207-667: The Buchan River, approximately 75 kilometres from Bairnsdale and 350 kilometres from Melbourne. While Buchan is best known for its caves, its history as one of the oldest townships in Victoria goes back further than the discovery of the caves. It also has fossils that depict the mega fauna that existed in the region 20,000 years ago. Some fossils are in view on the new Buchan Hotel stone walls. The township celebrated its 175th anniversary in March 2014. European settlement first entered
230-491: The Buchan district. Over the ensuing years, a number of companies mined in the area, around Back Creek, Murrindal , Mt Tara, Canni Creek, Gelantipy and Mt Deddick areas. The government provided a battery but most mining ceased by 1907. Little remains to mark the sites of these mines. …At the Campbells Knob Mine near Gelantipy, where silver was mined in the 1890s, two mine adits are visible but no trace remains of
253-541: The area in October 1838 and Buchan station was established in January 1839. Free selection after 1868, and a township was proclaimed in 1873 taking its name from the station. The Buchan Post Office opened around October 1878 and at Buchan South in 1901 (closed 1980). It is thought that the name Buchan was taken from an Aboriginal word Bukkan-mungie to which various meanings have been ascribed, one interpretation of its meaning
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#1732801298567276-595: The bigger mines were profitable but most were short-lived. Some commercial quarries operated in the early 1900s and marble from the quarries was used to build the Shrine and State Library in Melbourne and buildings in London and throughout the state. From the 1950s a quarry also produced crushed lime for agriculture, paper manufacture and other uses. Wattle bark stripping was an important industry and small spot mills worked in
299-579: The district of Buchan comprised all the land between the Don and Deveron, but now the land between the Don and the Ythan is known as Formartine , so Buchan has taken on a restricted sense. The Buchan area has a population of 39,160 (2001 census) and an area of 547 km . It contains the town of Peterhead and is adjacent to the committee and administrative areas of Banff and Buchan and Formartine . Peterhead
322-438: The new campsite. The caves were closed during the war but reopened in 1946. Residents in the district have experienced a number of environmental hardships over the last decade, including drought, two floods and three major fires. The fires in particular have impacted heavily on the farming, timber and tourism industries. Buchan has a picnic horse racing club , the Buchan & Gelantipy Race Club, which holds its one race meeting
345-609: The similarity between the territory names Buchan and Marr to those of the Welsh commotes Cantref Bychan and Cantref Mawr , meaning "small" and "large commote" respectively. The first documentary record of Buchan is a reference in the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba to the death of King Indulf at the hands of Vikings in Buchan in 962, a death separately recorded in a 12th-century king-list as taking place at Cullen . Cullen
368-469: The small settlement near the mine." The history also records that there was a sawmill at Gelantipy in the period after World War Two. This was operated by Gibbs Bright & Co. Bushfires affected the region in 1952, 2003 and 2014. In 2018 an upgraded CFA fire station was opened next to the district Bush Nursing Centre. Frank Moon, who developed the Buchan Caves for tourism in the early 1900s,
391-453: The surrounding bush. Following World War 2, two large sawmills and several smaller mills operated in Buchan providing employment. The last mill ceased operation this year. There were small groups of Aboriginal people in the area but their numbers declined following European settlement. At Cloggs Cave near Buchan, evidence has been found of Aboriginal occupation in prehistoric times. The Buchan Caves were surveyed in 1889, although their existence
414-417: The trip through Seldom Seen daily. This bus route also stopped around 2010. Dave Woodburn died in 2012, and since then the area has been cleared; all that remains is a hut and a Telstra payphone . Due to its south-facing location, it is often much cooler at Gelantipy during the daytime than at higher elevations further north (such as at Jindabyne ), particularly in the summer. Snowfalls are common throughout
437-399: The turn of the century. This expanded into several cheese factories and a butter factory which operated for many years. Sheep and cattle grazing increased as settlement spread and cattle sales began in Buchan in 1901. The township grew as closer settlement of the farming land meant more demand for services. A number of mines were opened as early as 1869 including silver, gold and lead. Some of
460-580: The year, sometimes falling in late spring to early summer. Buchan, Victoria Buchan ( / b ʌ k ən / BUCK -ən ) is a town in the east Gippsland region of Victoria , Australia . The town is situated adjacent to the Buchan River , in the Shire of East Gippsland , upstream from the river's junction with the Snowy River . At the 2011 census , Buchan and the surrounding area had
483-780: Was born in Gelantipy. Seldom Seen is a remote locality in the Victorian high country, just north of Gelantipy and close to the Snowy River. The Seldom Seen Roadhouse was located near 5373 Gelantipy Road, Wulgulmerang East, about 30 km. from the NSW border. Between Buchan in Victoria and Jindabyne in New South Wales, the Seldom Seen Roadhouse was the only place for fuel along the Snowy. "Mobil" Dave Woodburn
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#1732801298567506-400: Was the owner. The owner relied on the small tourist trade during the 1990s and 2000s. Before the alpine bushfires of 2003, Seldom Seen Roadhouse was a typical 1960s-era petrol station. By March 2005, the roadhouse was trading from a caravan, which was then replaced with a more permanent structure. Unfortunately that trade was steadily diminishing. A few tourist buses from Melbourne would make
529-409: Was well known in the 1880s. Fairy Cave was discovered in 1907 by the local caretaker, Frank Moon, and was opened for public inspection in 1908. Royal Cave was opened in 1912 and by 1917 six caves were open to the public. In the 1920s camping facilities were developed near the caves to accommodate the number of tourists who visited the area on bus tours and who stayed in the local guesthouses, hotels or at
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