A popular holiday town, favoured for its fishing and watersports on Lake Eildon.
Location: 142 km north of Melbourne
Brief history: during the construction of the Eildon Dam in the early 1950s, a the new township of Eildon was created to house the workforce as the original town would be flooded after the dam was built. Originally the new town comprised 300 permanent houses, pre-cut and fabricated in England but assembled on site. Fourteen different plans were used to eliminate the sameness of appearance. There were 190 temporary houses and hostel buildings with accommodation for 1,275 workers. The population is today around 1,200.
Points of Interest: Lake Eildon National Park; Frazer National Park; Snob's Creek Falls; Morris Lookout (view of town); Mount Pinniger (543 metres - views to Mt. Buller and Victorian Alps); Cumberland Falls; Lake Eildon, Victoria's largest water storage reservoir, a 13,000 ha storage dam that it holds five times as much water as Sydney Harbour. It was built for irrigation and hydro-electric power; Upper Yarra Dam; O'Shannassy Dam.