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Porepunkah is a town in northeast Victoria, Australia on the Great Alpine Road, at the foot of Mount Buffalo northeast of the state capital, Melbourne and northwest of Bright. It is part of Alpine Shire local government area and on the banks of the Ovens River, near the Buckland River junction. At the , Porepunkah had a population of 953.〔 The town is named for the Hindu word for "gentle breeze". ==History== European settlement began in the 1830s, but it wasn't until the discovery of gold in the 1850s that development of the town took place. Porepunkah is the nearest modern township to the site of the Buckland Riot, an anti-Chinese race riot that occurred on 4 July 1857. The notorious bushranger Harry Power defied police in the Ovens district for a decade. Power held up the mail coach at Porepunkah on 7 May 1869 after escaping from Pentridge Prison.〔(Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, Henry Power )〕 Porepunkah Post Office opened on 22 February 1870. Although the Post Office doesn't exist exclusively today, the Porepunkah Roadhouse provides Australia Post services to the community as there is no mail service to homes. Porepunkah Primary School (No. 1144) was officially opened on 23 January 1873, with Henry Jeffreys as the headmaster and an enrolment of 43 children. The school remains open today.〔(The Genealogist, June 2010 )〕 The Porepunkah Recreation Reserve was gazetted on 11 April 1895.〔(Victoria Government Gazette, 11 April 1895 )〕 Porepunkah was proclaimed a township on 22 June 1910 by Lord Carmichael, the Governor of Victoria.〔(Victoria Government Gazette, 22 June 1910 )〕 Porepunkah railway station was the stopping point for passengers to disembark for Mount Buffalo. In June 1925 a "sedan passenger car" was introduced to transport up to 27 people from the station to the Mount Buffalo Chalet.〔(The Argus, 17 June 1925 )〕 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「Porepunkah」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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