Pomonal, Victoria Pomonal, Victoria Pomonal is a town in western Victoria, Australia within the Rural City of Ararat local government area, north west of the state capital, Melbourne. At the , Pomonal had a population of 322. Reflecting the many orchards in the area at the time, the town was originally named Pomona after the Roman goddess. As a result of another town in Australia with the same name, this was changed in 1904 to Pomonal. The Post Office reflected this change opening as Pomona on 25 December 1892 (closing 1895), re-opening as Mona on 1 August 1904 then being renamed Pomonal
Geology of the Australian Capital Territory is located on a terrane that is called the Benambra Terrane in Victoria, but the Molong-Monaro Terrane in New South Wales. also known as Canberra-Yass Synclinorial Zone East also known as Canberra-Yass Synclinorial Zone west A plate with a continent fragment on board bumped into the east coast of what is now Australia, forming the Delamerian Orogeny. The remains of the mountains of this orogeny can be found near Broken Hill and in eastern South Australia, western Victoria, and western Tasmania. This happened between 520 and 480 million years ago up to the Cambrian period. No associated ocean floor has