MOE LIBRARY

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WAITING...

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CLOUDSCAPE

At the railway station.

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SMALL TOWN VICTORIA

In Moe, Gippsland, as Autumn turns to Winter.

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SMALL TOWN SUMMER

Hot day in country Victoria, everyone is either indoors or at the town's aquatic centre. Sun beats down mercilessly on the main street. Only mad dogs and Englishmen (and the odd photographer) are out in the noonday sun...

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RURAL SERENITY

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NARRACAN CREEK, MOE

Moe is a town in the Latrobe Valley in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. It is approximately 130 kilometres east of the central business district of Melbourne, 45 kilometres due south of the peak of Mount Baw Baw in the Great Dividing Range and features views of the Baw Baw Ranges to the north and Strzelecki Ranges to the south. At June 2018, Moe had an estimated urban population of 16,812 - including Newborough, a suburb to the East.

A small gold discovery was made in the region in 1852. The small settlement on the Narracan Creek was a stopover en route to the Walhalla goldfields further north. A Post Office opened on 17 March 1862. In 1878 the Shire of Narracan was proclaimed, and the railway arrived from Morwell. Moe railway station was a key station, with a roundhouse, and connections to the now-closed Walhalla, Thorpdale and Yallourn lines. The town was surveyed in 1879. Moe was declared a city in 1963.

Today, Moe is a navigation point and stopover for tourists en route to Erica, the historic goldfields township of Walhalla, the Walhalla Goldfields Railway and Mount Baw Baw. Lake Narracan is nearby, and Moe is home to the annual Moe Cup horse races, the Moe Jazz Festival and the recreated historic settlement Old Gippstown.

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QUEEN ANNE'S LACE

Daucus carota, whose common names include wild carrot, bird's nest, bishop's lace, and Queen Anne's lace (North America), is a white, flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to temperate regions of Europe and southwest Asia, and naturalised to North America and Australia. Domesticated carrots are cultivars of a subspecies, Daucus carota subsp. sativus.

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