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Geographic Locations > Islands > Australia > Victoria
Environment and Public Health > Environment > Islands > Australia > Victoria
... > Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Islands > Australia > Victoria
Geographic Locations > Oceania > Australasia > Australia > Victoria

Preferred term

Victoria  

Type

  • Geographical Descriptor

Broader concept

Note

  • a state of Australia

Scope note

  • A state in southeastern Australia, the southernmost state. Its capital is Melbourne. It was discovered in 1770 by Captain Cook and first settled by immigrants from Tasmania. In 1851 it was separated from New South Wales as a separate colony. Self-government was introduced in 1851; it became a state in 1901. It was named for Queen Victoria in 1851. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1295 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, p574)

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  • 88

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014739

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