Morwell

Morwell is a city in central Gippsland, a region in the east of Victoria. Morwell is the heart of Victoria's energy centre, the Latrobe Valley. It is also the administrative centre for the City of Latrobe. The name Morwell is believed to have been derived from the Aboriginal term More willie, meaning 'woolly possum'. The earliest inhabitants of the Morwell district were the Gunai Indigenous Australians ( Sometimes spelled Kurnai). Their first contact with Europeans would have been with pastoralists who came south from the Monaro region of New South Wales in the 1840s in search of pasture for their stock. In 1841, McMillan and Strzelecki made journeys of exploration through the region which would later be named Gippsland and during the...