Borung Highway
The Borung Highway is a 138 kilometre rural highway in western Victoria running in a west–east direction from Dimboola in the west to Charlton in the east. The highway serves little more than connectivity between local communities, and is busiest between the towns of Donald and Charlton (with exception to the 15 km section that it shares with the Sunraysia Highway between Donald and Litchfield). The more notable features along the highway exist in the pastoral scenery, and the surprising appearance of lakes amongst the rolling hills. Buloke trees (from which the Shire of Buloke gets its name), are a regular feature along the eastern segment of the road.
Borung Highway Victoria | |
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| The highway on the northern edge of Donald | |
| General information | |
| Type | Highway |
| Length | 138 km (86 mi) |
| Route number(s) |
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| Former route number | State Route 138 (1986–1999) Entire route |
| Major junctions | |
| West end | High Street Dimboola, Victoria |
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| East end | Calder Highway Charlton, Victoria |
| Location(s) | |
| Major settlements | Warracknabeal, Donald |
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It is notable that very few of the highways in Victoria have Aboriginal names. In the nineteenth century amateur scientist and long serving member of the Victorian Legislative Council W. E. Stanbridge made the most detailed record of Australian Aboriginal astronomy surviving. Stanbridge befriended the Booroung people near Lake Tyrrell, and presented the results to Victoria's Scientific Community. The possibilities are that the Borung Highway was named for this tribe, or as is written in the history of the town of Borung the town "takes its name from an Aboriginal word meaning the broad leafed mallee scrub".