Traralgon

Traralgon is a city situated in the east of the Latrobe Valley in the Gippsland area of Victoria, Australia. The urban populace of Traralgon at the 2016 statistics was 25,485. It is the biggest and quickest developing city in the more noteworthy Latrobe Valley region, which has a populace of 74,170 at June 2016 and is regulated by the City of Latrobe.

The birthplace of the name Traralgon is unverifiable. It is prominently accepted to be gotten from words from the Gunai dialect: tarra signifying "stream" and algon signifying "little fish". Nonetheless, these words are not reflected in present day etymologists' information of the Gunai dialect, where, for instance, the word for stream is wun or wurn. The Gippsland district was initially possessed by the indigenous Gunai individuals for a period more than 2,000 years.

The territory around Traralgon was first settled by Europeans during the 1840s not long after in the wake of being investigated by Count Paweł Strzelecki on his arrival from the Snowy Mountains where he named Australia's most astounding pinnacle, Mount Kosciuszko. Because of the Latrobe Valley having generally high precipitation, the land is exceptionally fruitful, and cultivating was immediately settled. Similarly as with quite a bit of focal and western Gippsland, this was chiefly dairy cultivating. Australian tenets football is prevalent.