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Lake Boga () is a town in Victoria, Australia, located next to the lake of the same name. It is situated within the Rural City of Swan Hill within the Mallee region of north-west Victoria. At the 2011 census, Lake Boga had a population of 719. The town is located north west of Melbourne and south east of the regional centre Swan Hill. ==History== The Wemba-Wemba Indigenous Australian people occupied the lake for thousands of years before the arrival of Major Sir Thomas Mitchell in June 1836. Two German Moravian missionaries, Reverend A.F.C. Täger and Reverend F.W. Spieseke, established Lake Boga mission in 1851. The mission closed in 1856 due to lack of converts, disputes with local authorities and hostilities from local landholders.〔Felicity Jensz, pp 71-105, ''German Moravian missionaries in the British colony of Victoria, Australia, 1848-1908'' in particular Chapter 3 ''Lake Boga, A Putrid Stain'', IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP, 2010 via (Google Books ), ISBN 978-90-04-17921-9〕 The Moravian Church established a subsequent mission site near Lake Hindmarsh in 1859 (see Ebenezer Mission).〔Ian D. Clark, pp177-183, ''Scars on the Landscape. A Register of Massacre sites in Western Victoria 1803-1859'', Aboriginal Studies Press, 1995 ISBN 0-85575-281-5〕 The Post Office opened on 8 August 1887. Lake Boga in World War II was once a site of a top-secret air base which housed more than one thousand personnel who serviced and repaired the flying boats at the Number One Flying Boat Repair Depot. Planes like Catalinas were regularly seen coming in to land on the circular lake, only to leave soon after on secret allied missions. The depot and bunkers were deemed top-secret military sites but when Qantas and then subsequently the RAAF came in their flying boats to inspect Lake Boga "It was supposed to be top-secret but... there were about three hundred people on the shore watching these aeroplanes come in!"〔http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2007/11/13/2089467.htm〕 The museum now inhabits an (underground bunker ), built in the forties to withstand enemy attack. It is a long domed structure with turf over the top and a wheelchair access ramp now snakes down to the entrance. Inside, the building retains much of its air of mystery. The claustrophobic space is filled with memorabilia from the depot, as well as maps and photos illustrating the strategic importance of the site. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lake Boga, Victoria」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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