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The Wimmera is an illdefined district, sometimes incorrectly referred to as an economic region, of the Australian state of Victoria. The district is located within parts of the Loddon Mallee and the Grampians regions; and covers the dryland farming area south of the range of Mallee scrub, east of the South Australia border and north of the Great Dividing Range. It can also be defined as the land within the social catchment of Horsham, its main settlement. Most of the Wimmera is very flat, with only the Grampians and Mount Arapiles rising above vast plains and the low plateaux that form the Great Divide in this part of Victoria. The Grampians are very rugged and tilted, with many sheer sandstone cliffs on their eastern sides, but gentle slopes on the west. In the context of the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia, the Wimmera is a subregion of located within the Murray Darling Depression bioregion. The Wimmera is one of the nine districts in Victoria used for weather forecasting by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. The Victorian Department of Environment and Primary Industries defines the district as a region for agricultural production purposes encompassing the Buloke, Hindmarsh, Horsham City, Northern Grampians, West Wimmera and Yarriambiack local government areas. At the , the six local government areas (LGAs) that are thought to comprise the illdefined district had a combined population of . The area of these same four LGAs is . ==History== The area was first surveyed by Thomas Mitchell in the mid 1830s, and he is credited with naming the Grampians after a mountain range in his native Scotland,〔(Australian History ) Thomas Mitchell biography. Retrieved 10 March 2014〕 and naming the region as Wimmera, adapting a word from the local indigenous language meaning 'throwing stick'.〔(Wimmera article in online Britannica. ) Retrieved 10 March 2014.〕 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「Wimmera」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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