Warragul

Warragul is a town in the West Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia, about 102 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. It sits on hills that run north from the Strzelecki Ranges toward the Mount Baw Baw plateau of the Great Dividing Range, and it is the main population and service centre for the Shire of Baw Baw. The surrounding district is known for dairy farming and for gourmet foods. The settlement began as a construction camp on the surveyed railway line and its station opened in March 1878, which turned a squatters camp into a town; the Princes Highway was officially opened there in 1920. At the 2021 census the town had 19,856 residents, and together with neighbouring Drouin it forms an urban area of more than 42,000 people.