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Nhill is a town in the Wimmera, in western Victoria, Australia. Nhill is located on the Western Highway, half-way between Adelaide and Melbourne. At the 2011 census Nhill had a population of 2278.〔(2011 Census QuickStats | Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 10 August 2013 )〕 "Nhill" is believed to be a Wergaia word meaning "early morning mist rising over water"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hindmarsh Planning Scheme )〕 or "white mist rising from the water".〔''The Horsham Times'', "The discovery of Nhill", 2 June 1944, p. 4.〕 Nhill is the administrative headquarters for Shire of Hindmarsh〔(Hindmarsh contacts | Shire of Hindmarsh. Retrieved 10 August 2013 )〕 and residents are mainly employed in either farming or food processing, most notably in grain and fowl. The town is home to a community of Karen people. Originally coming to Australia as refugees, the Karen community settled in Nhill in the early 2010s to work at the Luv-a-Duck food processing facility. In 2012, there were over 100 Karen residents in Nhill. The 2011 Australian census listed the main religions in Nhill as Uniting Church 26.8%, Lutheran 15.6%, Anglican 13.4% and Catholic 12.9%. 31.3% either recorded "no religion" or did not answer.〔 ==History== The area has been home to the Wotjobaluk Aboriginal people for thousands of years and was first visited by Europeans in 1845. The famous Aboriginal tracker and cricketer, Dick-a-Dick, later claimed to have been present at the first meeting between the Wotjobaluk and Europeans.〔 Brothers Frank and John Oliver decided to build a flour mill on Crown land beside the Dimboola-Lawloit road, the township of Nhill grew from there. Cobb and Co coaches serviced Nhill from 1883.〔 Nhill Post Office opened on 1 January 1881. An earlier rural office (1861) was replaced by Lawloit Post Office Nhill was the first Victorian town after the state capital, Melbourne, to be supplied with electricity. Electric lighting was installed by 1892.〔 Nhill airport, located 1.9km north-west of the town, served as a major RAAF training base during the Second World War, instructing over 10,000 aircrew in 1941-1946. 〔http://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/conflict/ww2/display/94857-royal-australian-air-force-base-nhill-memorial〕 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「Nhill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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