Editing Robinvale (section)

==History==
The Robinvale region is home to at least five indigenous groups<ref>{{Cite web|title=Indigenous Culture -|url=https://www.robinvaleeuston.com/indigenous-culture/|access-date=2021-06-01|website=www.robinvaleeuston.com|language=en-US}}</ref> with traditional ownership belonging to people from the [[Latji Latji]] and [[Dadi Dadi]] people. The region, particularly Bumbang Island houses a large number of culturally significant sites and heritage items.<ref>Riverness Pty Ltd (2014) Mallee CMA Region Environmental Water Management Plan for Bumbang Island. Prepared for Mallee Catchment Management Authority, Victoria, November 2014 https://www.water.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0025/403891/Bumbang-Island-EWMP.pdf accessed 1 June 2021</ref> The town is named in memory of Lieutenant George Robin Cuttle, who was [[killed in action]] during air combat over France in 1918. The Post Office opened in 1924 as Bumbang, but was renamed Robinvale in August of that year.<ref name = "a">{{Citation| last = Premier Postal History  | title = Post Office List | url = https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country= | access-date = 2008-04-11}}</ref>

Robinvale was connected to the rest of the Victorian railway network when the line from [[Manangatang]] was opened in 1924.<ref name=harrigan>{{cite book|last1=Harrigan|first1=Leo J.|title=Victorian Railways to ‘62|date=1962|publisher=Victorian Railways Public Relations and Betterment Board|location=Melbourne}}</ref>{{rp|284}} Work began in the 1920s on a {{convert|37|mi|km|adj=on}} extension of the line across the Murray River to [[Lette railway line|Lette]] in [[New South Wales]]. It was never completed, and work was officially abandoned in 1943.<ref name=harrigan/>{{rp|100}} The combined rail-road bridge across the river at Robinvale, which was constructed as part of the project, continued to be used until 2006, when a new road bridge was opened. The [[vertical-lift bridge|lifting span]] of the former rail-road bridge has been placed in a nearby park, as a permanent historical display.<ref>{{cite web|title=Euston-Robinvale Bridge|url=http://www.robinvaleeuston.com/bridge-and-punt|publisher=Robinvale-Euston Visitor Centre|access-date=2015-08-24}}</ref>

[[Canal lock|Lock]] 15 on the Murray River is just downstream of the town providing a pool of irrigation water and ensuring that the river near Robinvale is permanently available for water activities such as [[water skiing]]. The weir and lock were completed in 1937, the last one built on the Murray (Locks 12&ndash;14 and 16&ndash;25 were never built).

The town, fictionalised as "Sunray", was the setting of the 1996 Australian feature film ''[[Love Serenade]]'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Love Serenade|url=http://www.filmnorthwestvictoria.com/region/showcase.php?id=6|publisher=Film North West Victoria|access-date=2016-01-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321071443/http://www.filmnorthwestvictoria.com/region/showcase.php?id=6|archive-date=2012-03-21}}</ref> directed by [[Shirley Barrett]], which won the [[Caméra d'Or]] award at the [[1996 Cannes Film Festival]].