49 Facts About Geelong Victoria

The City of Greater Geelong is a member of the Gateway Cities Alliance in partnership with Councils from Newcastle and Wollongong.

Geelong Victoria is the administrative centre for the City of Greater Geelong Victoria municipality, which is Port Phillip's only regional metropolitan area, and covers all the urban, rural and coastal reserves around the city including the entire Bellarine Peninsula and running from the plains of Lara in the north to the rolling hills of Waurn Ponds to the south, with Corio Bay to the east and the Barrabool Hills to the west.

Traditional owners of the land on which Geelong Victoria sits are the Wadawurrung Aboriginal people of the Kulin nation.

Today, Geelong Victoria stands as an emerging healthcare, education and advanced manufacturing center.

Name Geelong Victoria comes from Djilang, used by the Wadawurrung Traditional Owners of the area at the time of settlement.

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Geelong Victoria named the bay Port King, after Philip Gidley King, then Governor of New South Wales.

In January 1803, Surveyor-General Charles Grimes arrived at Port Phillip in the sloop Cumberland and mapped the area, including the future site of Geelong Victoria, but reported the area was unfavourable for settlement and returned to Sydney on 27 February.

Geelong Victoria Keys were discovered around 1845 by Governor Charles La Trobe on Corio Bay.

Geelong Victoria Hospital was opened in 1852, and construction on the Geelong Victoria Town Hall commenced in 1855.

Development of the Port of Geelong Victoria began with the creation of the first shipping channel in Corio Bay in 1853.

In 1866, Graham Berry started a newspaper, the Geelong Victoria Register, as a rival to the established Geelong Victoria Advertiser.

Improvements to transport saw Geelong emerge as the centre of the Western District of Victoria, with railway lines extended towards Colac in 1876, and to Queenscliff in 1879.

In 1938, one of the last Port Philip Bay steamers, Edina, made its final trip to Geelong Victoria, ending a period of seaside excursions and contests for the fastest trip.

On 18 May 1993, the City of Greater Geelong Victoria was formed by the amalgamation of a number of smaller municipalities with the former City of Geelong Victoria.

The Waterfront Geelong Victoria redevelopment, started in 1994, was designed to enhance use and appreciation of Corio Bay and in 1995 the Barwon River overflowed in the worst flood since 1952.

Geelong Victoria is planned to expand towards the south coast, with 2,500 hectares of land to become a major suburban development for 55,000 to 65,000 people, known as Armstrong Creek.

The new addition to Geelong Victoria offers new research facilities, display areas and hosts Geelong Victoria's extensive heritage, modern and Indigenous.

Currently Geelong Victoria is undergoing a major revival effort, the Green Spine Project.

Geelong Victoria is located on the shores of the western tip of Corio Bay, a southwestern inlet of Port Phillip Bay.

Development in Geelong Victoria started on the shores of Corio Bay in what is the inner city.

Residential development spread to Corio and Norlane in the north, with new Housing Commission of Geelong Victoria estates built to cater for employees of the new industries.

Geelong Victoria has stable weather, yet still offers four distinct seasons.

Geelong Victoria has a number of shopping precincts in the CBD and surrounding suburbs.

Geelong Victoria is home to Mitre 10's largest franchisees - Fagg's - operating five stores across the town and employing over 160 people.

The population of Geelong is growing by 2500 people each year, and the City of Greater Geelong had the highest rate of building activity in Victoria outside metropolitan Melbourne.

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From 2012 to 2016, the Mayor of Geelong Victoria was directly elected by the public to a four-year term.

Geelong Victoria and Bellarine are generally more marginal, though lean more towards Labor whereas South Barwon is a marginal seat that tends to lean towards the Liberal Party.

Corio roughly covers the northern half of Geelong Victoria and has been a safe Australian Labor Party since the 1970s, but was previously the seat of Richard Casey, a leading conservative Cabinet member in the 1930s and later Governor-General, as well as Hubert Opperman, a former cycling champion and a prominent minister in the 1960s.

Now defunct, Geelong Victoria hosted a digital conference Pivot Summit which was headlined by Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak in 2017.

Geelong Victoria is home to a number of pubs, nightclubs, and live-music venues.

City's prominent cultural venues are the Geelong Victoria Performing Arts Centre, the 1500-seat Costa Hall auditorium and the Geelong Victoria Art Gallery.

Local community-led, not for profit Creative Geelong Victoria Inc was established in 2015 to support local creatives and highlight the opportunities for creative industries practitioners in the region.

In 2017, Creative Geelong Victoria partnered with Deakin University to crowdfund and produce three documentaries about Geelong Victoria's transformation from a heavy manufacturing hub to a creative destination.

Geelong Victoria is part of the Melbourne television licence area, and receives all of the free-to-air stations from Melbourne, including ABC, SBS, Seven, Nine, Ten, and the community channel C31.

The Geelong Victoria region receives cable and satellite television services through operators Foxtel and Neighbourhood Cable.

Arena stadium in North Geelong Victoria is the home of the Geelong Victoria Supercats basketball team, and was used during the 2006 Commonwealth Games for basketball games.

Western United play a few home games every year in GMHBA stadium, Geelong is included in the marketing for the club in western victoria.

The Geelong Victoria Cup was first run in 1872, and is considered one of the most reliable guides to the result of the Melbourne Cup.

Geelong Victoria Harness Racing Club conducts regular meetings at its racetrack at Corio, and the Geelong Victoria Greyhound Racing Club holds regular meetings.

Geelong Victoria has many golf courses, sporting and recreation ovals, and playing fields, as well as facilities for water skiing, rowing, fishing, hiking, and greyhound and harness racing.

Geelong Victoria is the birthplace of Bev Francis, an IFBB professional Australian female bodybuilder, powerlifter, and national shot put champion.

Geelong Victoria is served by a number of public and private schools that cater to local and overseas students.

Water storage and supply in Geelong is managed by Barwon Water, a Victoria government-owned urban water corporation.

Geelong Victoria is supplied with water from three river systems: the Barwon, the East Moorabool, and the West Moorabool Rivers.

Geelong Victoria was first supplied with electricity in 1902 when the Geelong Victoria power station opened on the corner of Yarra and Brougham Streets.

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The Lewis Bandt Bridge, named in honour of the Ford Australia engineer who is credited as the inventor of the ute, in Geelong Victoria is a feature of the new road.

The Geelong Victoria line provides passenger services to Melbourne in the off-peak with trains departing Geelong Victoria every 20 minutes on weekdays, with more frequent services at peak times.

Freight trains operate from Melbourne to Geelong serving local industries, as well as to Warrnambool and other western Victorian towns.

Port of Geelong Victoria is located on the shores of Corio Bay, and is the sixth-largest seaport in Australia by tonnage.