Strathbogie, Victoria
Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox Australian place Strathbogie is a town in central Victoria, Australia. It is in the Shire of Strathbogie local government area. At the Template:CensusAU, Strathbogie and the surrounding area had a population of 304.<ref name=ABS2016/>
HistoryEdit
The Post Office opened on 10 July 1878.<ref name = "a">Template:Citation</ref>
Strathbogie is located in the Strathbogie Ranges. Mount Wombat (799 metres), which includes a floral and fauna reserve, is 4.6 km. to the north-west.
Town facilities include a general store/ cafe, war memorial and recreation reserve.
Sports & RecreationEdit
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Strathbogie Football ClubEdit
The Strathbogie Football Club appears to have played its first match of Australian Rules football in 1893 against Gooram,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> prior to entering a team in the Euroa District Football Association in 1905.
The Strathbogie North Football Club was formed in May 1895<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and used to play matches against Strathbogie FC.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The Strathbogie FC then played in the following football competitions -
- 1893 - 1904: Played social matches intermittently against other local sides
- 1905 - 1908: Euroa District Football Association
- 1912 - 1913: Euroa District Football Association
- 1919 - Euroa District Football Association
- 1921 - Euroa District Football Association
- 1923 - 1926: Euroa District Football Association
- 1928 - 1935: Euroa District Football Association
- 1950 - 1954: Hume Highway Football League
- 1955 - 1961: Waranga North East Football Association
- 1962 - 1986: Benalla & District Football League
- 1987: Disbanded
- Premierships
- Euroa District Football Association
- 1912 - Strathbogie: 5.14 - 44 d Gooram: 3.5 - 23<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 1939 - Strathbogie: 10.21 - 81 d Miepoll: 7.15 - 57<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Hume Highway Football League
- 1950 - Strathbogie: 11.7 - 73 d Broadford 2nds: 8.13 - 61<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 1951 - Strathbogie: 13.15 - 91 d Longwood: 6.15 - 51<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 1952 - Strathbogie: 12.21 - 91 d Longwood: 9.13 - 67<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Benalla & District Football League
- 1983: Strathbogie: 8.10 - 58 d Bonnie Doon: 6.12 - 48
- Runners Up
- Euroa District Football Association
- 1925 - Baddaginnie: 6.16 - 52 d Strathbogie: 6.9 - 45<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 1937 - Miepoll d Strathbogie<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 1949 - Violet Town: 13.11 - 89 d Strathbogie: 5.6 - 36<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Hume Highway Football League
- 1954 - Longwood: 12.4 - 76 d Strathbogie: 8.9 - 57<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Waranga North East Football Association
- 1957 - Bonnie Doon: 10.12 - 72 d Strathbogie: 4.8 - 32
ClimateEdit
Strathbogie has warm, dry summers, though which are frequently interrupted by cold fronts on account of its proximity to the Southern Ocean (typical of central Victoria); summer maximum temperatures have been as low as Template:Convert on 1 December 2019, and on 3 February 2005 the maximum did not exceed Template:Convert.
A pronounced autumnal lag is noted (March being almost as warm as December), and the winters are cold and rainy with many occurrences of snow. It has a 'Mediterranean' rainfall pattern, with nearly thrice the rainfall in winter than in high summer.
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