Genoa, Victoria

Genoa, Victoria

Infobox Australian Place | type = town
name = Genoa
state = vic


caption =
lga = Shire of East Gippsland
postcode = 3891
est =
pop = 304
elevation=
maxtemp =
mintemp =
rainfall =
stategov = Gippsland East
fedgov = Gippsland
dist1 = 498
dir1 = E
location1= Melbourne
dist2 = 336
dir2 = S
location2= Canberra (ACT)
dist3 = 125
dir3 = E
location3= Orbost
dist4 = 50
dir4 = E
location4= Cann River
dist5 = 32
dir5 = SE
location5= Mallacoota

Genoa is a town in Eastern Gippsland,Victoria, Australia. It is close to the New South Wales border where the Princes Highway crosses the Genoa river. The town is an important access point to the Croajingolong National Park. At the 2006 census, Genoa and the surrounding area had a population of 304.Census 2006 AUS
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The Genoa Post Office opened on 9 April 1888. Citation

last = Premier Postal History | title = Post Office List | url = https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country= | accessdate = 2008-04-11 ]

In 1972 the earliest fossil trackway of primitive tetrapods were found in the Genoa River Gorge, dating back 350 million years [Warren, J. W. & Wakefield, N. A., 1972. Trackways of tetrapod vertebrates from the Upper Devonian of Victoria, Aust. Nature 238, 469-470.] .

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