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Melbourne (SD)

Location map for SD: 205

Introduction

Melbourne Statistical Division is situated on the northern and eastern side of Port Phillip Bay down to the Mornington Peninsula. It covers an area of approximately 9274.50 sq km. It includes the City of Melbourne, Australia's second largest city, which is situated around the Yarra River. The Division has a mild and fairly wet climate.

The Mornington Peninsula is a boot shaped promontory which separates Port Phillip Bay and Westernport Bay. It's a mixture of resorts and rural country side. At the southern tip of the Peninsula is Cape Shanck Conservation Park which takes up more than 30 km of the Bass Strait coastline. Cape Shanck lighthouse was built in 1859. Arthur's Seat is the dominant feature of the peninsula and is in Nepean State Park. The 1000 ha park is in two sections.

The Dandenong Ranges are 50 km from the centre of Melbourne and the area is famous for it's beauty. The heavy rainfall and rich volcanic soil has helped create hills and gullies lush with vegetation, and the Mountain Ash and many varieties of European trees have made it an important tourist attraction. The Ferntree Gully National Park in the Dandenongs is quite small, but includes a wide variety of flora and fauna.

The City of Melbourne is situated on a coastal plain and was founded by John Batman in 1835. In 1861 it was Australia's largest city after the discovery gold in the State. It is the only Australian capital city to still run trams and is the home of the Melbourne Cup, Australia's premier horse race.

The figures reported here are a subset of the Agricultural Census data from 1982/1983 to 1996/1997 published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS, AgStats). The data has been analysed by the Bureau of Rural Sciences using a consistent geographic base. Further information about the data is available from the Australian Spatial Data Directory

The figures and text are reproduced with permission of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, © Commonwealth of Australia, 2000.

Statistics

Area of region (ha): 768,433.32

Area

Agroforestry

Apples

Berry Fruit

Cattle and Calves

Cereals excluding Rice

Citrus

Grapes

Nuts

Oilseeds

Other Livestock

Other Non-Cereal Crops

Other Vegetables

Pastures

Pears

Pigs

Plantation Fruit

Potatoes

Poultry

Sales of Livestock

Sheep and Lambs

Stone Fruit

Further information

Please Note: Not all the selected data items are available for every year or for every statistical region.

The figures reported here are a subset of the Agricultural Census data from 1982/1983 to 1996/1997 published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS, AgStats). The data have been analysed by Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Australia to report them using a consistent geographic base. Further information about the data is available through the Australian Spatial Data Directory.

The subset includes 436 data items for plant production and 40 data items for livestock which were commonly available in the AgStats database over the 15 year period and each year for respondents having an Estimated Value of Agricultural Operations (EVAO) above the cut-off of $22,500.

The data have been concorded by bringing data collected using different geographies to a consistent geographic base, being Version 2.6 Statistical Local Area (SLA) boundaries (ABS, 1996) and using the non-agricultural lands mask from the National Land and Water Resources Audit's National Landuse Map (1996/1997).

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