Old Tallangatta

Town in Victoria, Australia

36°11′41″S 147°15′9″E / 36.19472°S 147.25250°E / -36.19472; 147.25250Population35 (2016 census)^[1]Postcode(s)3701Location

372 km (231 mi) NE of Melbourne
50 km (31 mi) E of Wodonga
8 km (5 mi) E of Tallangatta

LGA(s)Shire of TowongState electorate(s)Benambra Federal division(s)Indi

Old Tallangatta is a locality in north-east Victoria, Australia. It is in the Shire of Towong local government area, at the upper end of the Mitta Arm of Lake Hume, near the confluence of the Mitta Mitta River and Tallangatta Creek, 372 kilometres (231 mi) north-east of the state capital, Melbourne.

It is the original site of Tallangatta. In 1956, the town was relocated to a new site on higher ground 8 kilometres (5 mi) away, to allow for an increase in the height of the Hume Dam, which resulted in a nine metre rise^[2] in the level of the water in Lake Hume.^[3]

Some people still live in the part of Old Tallangatta that was above the new high-water mark.^[3] At the 2016 census, Old Tallangatta had a population of 35.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Old Tallangatta". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
^ "Hume Dam". Murray-Darling Basin Authority. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
^ ^a ^b Brown, Annie (5 August 2016). "Tallangatta marks six decades since it became the town that moved". ABC News, Goulburn Murray. Australian Broadcasting Commission. Retrieved 5 March 2023.