Lismore, Victoria

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Lismore
Victoria

Lismore Hotel

Population:

513 (2006)^[1]

Postcode:

3324

Elevation:

178 m (584 ft)

Location:

170 km (106 mi) W of Melbourne
96 km (60 mi) W of Geelong
72 km (45 mi) SW of Ballarat
31 km (19 mi) E of Cressy
12 km (7 mi) E of Derinallum

LGA:

Corangamite Shire

State District:

Polwarth

Federal Division:

Wannon

Mean Max Temp	Mean Min Temp	Rainfall
19.2 °C ^{67 °F}	8.1 °C ^{47 °F}	621.1 mm ^{24.5 in}

Location of Lismore (red dot)

Lismore is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on the Hamilton Highway 170 kilometres (106 mi) west of Melbourne. It is part of the Corangamite Shire local government area. The town is located at a point equidistant from Geelong and Warrnambool. At the 2006 census, Lismore had a population of 513.

A small Hamilton Highway town, Lismore lies just a few kilometres from the northernmost lakes in the Colac Lakes system. There are more than 50 lakes in the chain that spreads across the huge sweep of volcanic plains to the north of Colac. The largest lake, Lake Corangamite, is three times saltier than the ocean and only a species of minnow which have an extreme tolerance to salt can survive in its waters.

The town features one of the state's oldest private chapels, a Gothic revival style building built by Scottish emigrant Adam Robertson in 1867 from bluestone. There is also a large woolshed, capable of shearing 15,000 merinos, built by Robertson in 1841. The town and surrounding area still produces wool products including ugg boots.^[2]

People from Lismore include Gordon Bryant, a Labor politician and member of the Second Whitlam Ministry, and Tony Street a Liberal politician in the McMahon Ministry.

[edit] Accident

A severe level crossing accident at Lismore, where fog was a contributing factor, occurred on 25 May 2006. A truck failed to stop at a crossing with only passive protection, derailing the train and causing a massive pileup of wagons and killing the truck driver.