Biology:Ultima, Victoria
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 Dillon St, the main street of Ultima | |||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | [ ⚑ ] : 35°29′S 143°15′E / 35.483°S 143.25°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 173[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 3544 | ||||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | Rural City of Swan Hill | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Murray Plains | ||||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Mallee | ||||||||||||||
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Ultima is a town in northern Victoria, Australia . The town is in the Rural City of Swan Hill local government area, 353 kilometres (219 mi) north-west of the state capital, Melbourne and 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Swan Hill. At the 2021 Census Ultima had a population of 173,[1] down from 333 in 2011.[2]
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The Ultima Kangaroos are an Australian rules football club which compete in the Golden Rivers Football League. Since joining the then Kerang and District Football League in 1979, the 'Roos have won 10 premierships, which makes them one of the league's most successful teams during that time.
History
Ultima Post Office opened on 27 July 1899,[3] the Quambatook to Ultima railway was finished on 1 March 1900, and Ultima Primary School was established in 1902.[4] After the First World War, returned soldiers taking up the offer to farm selections in the Mallee were given a second-class ticket for the 19 hour journey to Ultima and district.[5] Robinvale, 120km north of the town is named for Lieutenant George Robin Cuttle of Ultima who was killed in action during air combat over France during WWI, and whose mother hung a sign at the station which said Robin Vale ('farewell Robin' in Latin).[6]
After marrying William Henry Jilbert 1919, Ethel (née Stevens) photographed activities on their farm in Ultima with a Box Brownie; collections of her images are held in the State Libraries of New South Wales and Victoria.[7]
Percy Stewart (1885-1931),[8] a farmer and one of the five original members of the Country Party and M.L.A for Swan Hill 1917-19 and Federal Member of the House of Representatives for Wimmera 1919-1931, observed the effective lobbying of the Canadian grain growers' associations so became an advocate for compulsory nation-wide wheat pools big enough to guarantee prices for grain by countering the influence of banks, grain merchants and fertiliser companies. After his campaigning in country newspapers, the Victorian Wheat-growers' Association founded its first branch at Ultima in November 1928.[9] When the Legislative Assembly seat of Swan Hill was vacated by Stewart's move into Federal politics in 1919, Francis Edward Old (1875-1950), who farmed in Ultima and married there September 1904, was elected unopposed as the Victorian Farmers' Union member.[10] Subsequently, federal politician Alexander Wilson augmented the success of the (later Wheat and Woolgrowers') Association, and retired to a farm he had purchased in 1952 in Ultima.[11]
Sport
Bird-watching
A small permanent freshwater lake continuously occupied by large numbers of Blue-billed ducks is found on the western side of the Lake Boga township, along Ultima-Lake Boga Rd, 18km from Ultima.[12]
Golf
Golfers play at the course of the Ultima Golf Club on Lake Boga Road.[13]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Template:Census 2021 AUS
- ↑ Template:Census 2011 AUS
- ↑ Premier Postal History, Post Office List, https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country=, retrieved 2008-04-11
- ↑ "General". Weekly Times: pp. 43. 1920-01-03. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article222559056.
- ↑ D.F.L. (1920-01-17). "Bush Sketcher: The Digger in the Mallee". The Australasian: pp. 44. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140234800.
- ↑ Holt, Tonie; Holt, Valmai (2014). Major and Mrs Holt's Pocket Battlefield Guide to the Somme 1916/1918. Holt's Battlefield Guidebooks. Pen & Sword Military. pp. 77. ISBN 9781844153954. https://books.google.com/books?id=mgBtBQAAQBAJ.
- ↑ Pyke, Christine (2011). "Ethel Jilbert biography". https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ethel-jilbert/biography/.
- ↑ "Stewart, Percy Gerald (1885-1931)". https://trove.nla.gov.au/people/1463487?c=people.
- ↑ Haig-Muir, K. M., "Stewart, Percy Gerald (1885–1931)" (in en), Australian Dictionary of Biography (Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University), https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/stewart-percy-gerald-8669, retrieved 2023-05-24
- ↑ Costar, B. J., "Old, Francis Edward (1875–1950)" (in en), Australian Dictionary of Biography (Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University), https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/old-francis-edward-7898, retrieved 2023-05-24
- ↑ Jones, Barry O.; Lamb, Tony, "Wilson, Alexander (1889–1954)" (in en), Australian Dictionary of Biography (Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University), https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wilson-alexander-12044, retrieved 2023-05-24
- ↑ Wnorowski, Ted; Wnorowski, Alex (2017). Australian Good Birding Guide Victoria. New Auckland, Bayswater: Ted & Alex Wnorowski, Dennis Jones & Associates Pty, Limited [distributor]. ISBN 9780648010432.
- ↑ Golf Select, Ultima, http://www.golfselect.com.au/armchair/courseView.aspx?course_id=1113, retrieved 2009-05-11
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