Morwell

Morwell is a town in the Latrobe Valley area of Gippsland in south-eastern Victoria, Australia, roughly 152 kilometres east of Melbourne. It is the administrative centre of the City of Latrobe, and after neighbouring Traralgon it is the second most populous town of that city. The name is thought to come from a Gunai word for the inhabitants of a swamp, and the first recorded use was for the Morwell River in the 1840s. A settlement grew around a hotel on the river in 1858, and the town centre moved to the railway station that opened in 1877. Morwell is known for its rose gardens, which host the International Rose Garden Festival, and the 2021 census counted 14,389 people there.