Blackwood, Victoria Blackwood, Victoria Blackwood is a township in Victoria, Australia. The township is located on the Lerderderg River, 89 kilometres north west of the state capital, Melbourne. Situated in The Wombat State Forest. Blackwood is in the Shire of Moorabool local government area and had a population of 295 at the . The town currently consists of a pub, a coffee roastery & cafe, a post office / general store, an antique store, a design studio, various holiday cottages, a holiday park, a bed and breakfast and a plant nursery / cafe at The Garden of St Erth. The township was
Port Victoria, South Australia Port Victoria, South Australia Port Victoria (formerly Wauraltee) is a town on the west coast of Yorke Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia. At the , Port Victoria had a population of 345. Like many other coastal towns on the peninsula, it has a jetty and used to be a thriving port for the export of grain to England. Its anchorage is sheltered from westerly weather by nearby Wardang Island. The windjammers carrying the bagged grain called at Falmouth, England or Queenstown, Ireland for orders of where the grain was to be taken. Many of the smaller ports