Clunes, Victoria
Clunes | |
|---|---|
Main street of Clunes | |
Clunes | |
| Coordinates: 37°18′0″S 143°47′0″E / 37.30000°S 143.78333°E | |
| Country | Australia |
| State | Victoria |
| LGA | |
| Location | |
| Established | mid-1850s |
| Government | |
| • State electorate | |
| • Federal division | |
| Elevation | 310 m (1,020 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 1,844 (2021 census) |
| Postcode | 3370 |
| Mean max temp | 19.6 °C (67.3 °F) |
| Mean min temp | 6.3 °C (43.3 °F) |
| Annual rainfall | 575.2 mm (22.65 in) |
Clunes is a town in Victoria, Australia, 36 km (22 mi) north of Ballarat, in the Shire of Hepburn. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 1,844.
Clunes is best known as the site of Victoria's first registered gold discovery in 1850 and its first gold strike in 1873, which lasted three months. A campus of Wesley College is based in Clunes and parts of the original Mad Max (1979) were filmed in the town, famously showcasing the Creswick Creek Bridge, in Clunes’s more regional farming area. Other films include “Ned Kelly” (2016) and Stan TV series “Bloom” (2018). The annual Clunes Booktown Festival began in 2007 and draws significant tourism to the area, with over 10 book shops around the town.