Mansfield, Victoria
Mansfield | |
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Police memorial with the Mansfield Hotel in the background | |
Mansfield Location in Shire of Mansfield | |
| Coordinates: 37°03′0″S 146°05′0″E / 37.05000°S 146.08333°E | |
| Country | Australia |
| State | Victoria |
| LGA | |
| Location | |
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| • State electorate | |
| • Federal division | |
| Elevation | 316 m (1,037 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 5,541 (2021 census) |
| Postcode | 3722 |
| Mean max temp | 20.9 °C (69.6 °F) |
| Mean min temp | 5.1 °C (41.2 °F) |
| Annual rainfall | 719.4 mm (28.32 in) |
Mansfield is a town in the foothills of the Victorian Alps in the Australian state of Victoria. It is approximately 180 kilometres (110 mi) north-east of Melbourne by road. The population of Mansfield was 5,541 at the 2021 census.
Mansfield is the seat of the Mansfield local government area. Mansfield was formerly heavily dependent on farming and logging but is now a tourist centre. It is the support town for the large Australia ski resort Mount Buller. It is associated with the high-country tradition of alpine grazing, celebrated in the film made around Mansfield, near the now famous Craigs Hut, called The Man from Snowy River (based on a poem by Banjo Paterson).