The County of Bogong is one of the 37 counties of Victoria

Counties of Victoria

The Australian state of Victoria is divided into 37 counties. They are part of the lands administrative divisions of Australia. These counties were gazetted in stages between 1849 and 1871 as Victoria was progressively opened up to European settlement. By 1890 all parish boundaries had been gazetted...

 which are part of the cadastral divisions of Australia

Cadastral divisions of Australia

Lands administrative divisions of Australia refers to the parts of Australia which are divided into the cadastral units of counties, parishes, hundreds, and other divisions for the purposes of land ownership...

, used for land titles. It is located south of the Murray River

Murray River

The Murray River is Australia's longest river. At in length, the Murray rises in the Australian Alps, draining the western side of Australia's highest mountains and, for most of its length, meanders across Australia's inland plains, forming the border between New South Wales and Victoria as it...

, east of the Ovens River

Ovens River

The Ovens River is a river in the Australian state of Victoria.Hamilton Hume and William Hovell explored the area in 1824, naming the Ovens River...

, and west of the Mitta Mitta River

Mitta Mitta River

The Mitta Mitta River is a major tributary of the Murray River in Australia and the source of approximately 40% of the Murray's flow.The river's headwaters include Victoria's highest mountain, Mount Bogong, with the Mitta Mitta itself forming at the confluence of the Cobungra River and the Big...

. Mount Bogong

Mount Bogong

Mount Bogong , located in the Alpine National Park, is the highest mountain in Victoria, Australia. The Big River separates the massif of the mountain from the Bogong High Plains to the south. "Bogong" in the local Aboriginal language means bigfella...

 is located there, the highest mountain in Victoria.

Origin of the name

Bogong moth

Bogong moth

The Bogong moth is a temperate species of night-flying moth notable for appearing in large numbers around major public buildings in Canberra, the capital city of Australia, during spring as it migrates to the High Plains. The moth's name 'Bogong' is the same as the mountain ranges on the High...

 is a native insect

Insect

Insects are a class of living creatures within the arthropods that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body , three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and two antennae...

 of Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. This was once considered a delicacy by the aborigines

Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the original inhabitants of the Australian continent and nearby islands. The Aboriginal Indigenous Australians migrated from the Indian continent around 75,000 to 100,000 years ago....

 who collected the dormant larvae and cooked them. A town, Bogong, in the state of Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

 has been named after the moth

Moth

A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...

.

Parishes

Parishes within the county:

• Barambogie, Victoria
• Baranduda, Victoria
• Barnawartha North, Victoria
• Barnawartha South, Victoria
• Barwidgee, Victoria
• Beechworth, Victoria
  Beechworth, Victoria
  Beechworth is a well-preserved historical town located in the north-east of Victoria, Australia, famous for its major growth during the gold rush days of the mid-1850s...
  
  
• Beethang, Victoria
• Belvoir West, Victoria
• Bingo-Munjie, Victoria
• Bingo-Munjie North, Victoria
• Bingo-Munjie South, Victoria
• Bogong North, Victoria
• Bogong South, Victoria
• Bolga, Victoria
• Bonegilla, Victoria
  Bonegilla, Victoria
  Bonegilla is a bounded rural locality of the City of Wodonga Local Government Area in northeast Victoria, Australia, located 10 kilometres east of Wodonga, and around 300km north-east of Melbourne. At the 2006 census, Bonegilla and surrounding area had a population of 773.- History :Bonegilla Post...
  
  
• Bontherambo, Victoria
• Boorgunyah, Victoria
• Boorhaman, Victoria
• Bright, Victoria
  Bright, Victoria
  Bright is a small sized town, located in northeastern Victoria, Australia, 319 metres above sea level at the southeastern end of the Ovens Valley. At the 2006 census, Bright had a population of 2684. It is in the Alpine Shire local government area...
  
  
• Brimin, Victoria
• Bruarong, Victoria
• Bundara-Munjie, Victoria
• Byawatha, Victoria
• Carlyle, Victoria
• Carraragarmungee, Victoria
• Carruno, Victoria
• Chiltern, Victoria
  Chiltern, Victoria
  Chiltern is a town in Victoria, Australia, located in the north east of the state between Wangaratta and Wodonga, in the Shire of Indigo. At the 2006 census, Chiltern had a population of 1063. The town is close to the Chiltern-Mount Pilot National Park...
  
  
• Chiltern West, Victoria
• Darbalang, Victoria
• Dederang, Victoria
  Dederang, Victoria
  Dederang is a town in north east Victoria. The town is located on the Kiewa Valley Highway, in the Alpine Shire Local Government Areas of Australia, 329 kilometres from the state capital, Melbourne. Dederang is located in the Kiewa River valley...
  
  
• Dorchap, Victoria
• El Dorado, Victoria
• Estcourt, Victoria
• Everton, Victoria
  Everton, Victoria
  Everton is a small town located from Wangaratta in northeast Victoria, along the Great Alpine Road. At the 2006 census, Everton and the surrounding area had a population of 274....
  
  
• Freeburgh, Victoria
• Gooramadda, Victoria
• Gundowring, Victoria
• Harrietville, Victoria
• Hotham, Victoria
• Kergunyah, Victoria
  Kergunyah, Victoria
  Kergunyah is a locality in north eastern Victoria. The locality is on the Kiewa Valley Highway, north east of the state capital, Melbourne. At the 2006 census, Kergunyah had a population of 188.-References:...
  
  
• Kergunyah North, Victoria
• Lilliput, Victoria
• Lochiel, Victoria
• Ludrik-Munjie, Victoria
• Magorra, Victoria
• Mudgeegonga, Victoria
• Mullagong, Victoria
• Mullindolingong, Victoria
• Murmungee, Victoria
• Murramurrangbong, Victoria
• Myrtleford, Victoria
  Myrtleford, Victoria
  Myrtleford is a town in north-east Victoria, Australia, 45 km south-east of Wangaratta and 275 km north-east of Melbourne. Myrtleford is part of the Alpine Shire local government area and at the 2006 census the town had a population of 3,187....
  
  
• Noorongong, Victoria
• Norong, Victoria
• Nowyeo, Victoria
• Omeo, Victoria
  Omeo, Victoria
  Omeo is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on the Great Alpine Road, east of Mount Hotham, in the Shire of East Gippsland. At the 2006 census, Omeo had a population of 452. The name is derived from the Aboriginal word for 'mountains' or 'hills'...
  
  
• Porepunkah, Victoria
  Porepunkah, Victoria
  Porepunkah is a town in north east Victoria, Australia. The town is located on the Great Alpine Road, at the foot of Mount Buffalo north east of the state capital, Melbourne and north west of Bright. Part of Alpine Shire Local government area and situated on the banks of the Ovens River, near the...
  
  
• Stanley, Victoria
  Stanley, Victoria
  Stanley is a small town approximately from Beechworth in Victoria noted for its apple & nut farms. At the 2006 census, Stanley had a population of 690.The town was formerly known as Snake Gully...
  
  
• Tallandoon, Victoria
• Tangambalanga, Victoria
  Tangambalanga, Victoria
  Tangambalanga , or Tangam for short, is a small town in north-eastern Victoria, Australia. It is located approximately south-east of the regional centre of Wodonga, in the Kiewa Valley, and from the Hume Weir...
  
  
• Tarrawingee, Victoria
  Tarrawingee, Victoria
  Tarrawingee is a town in north eastern Victoria, Australia. The town is located in the Rural City of Wangaratta local government area, north west of the state capital, Melbourne. At the 2006 census, Tarrawingee and the surrounding area had a population of 507....
  
  
• Tawanga, Victoria
• Theddora, Victoria
• Tongaro, Victoria
• Undowah, Victoria
• Wallaby, Victoria
• Wangaratta North, Victoria
• Wermatong, Victoria
• Wodonga, Victoria
  Wodonga, Victoria
  Wodonga is a small city on the Victorian side of the border with New South Wales, north-east of Melbourne, Australia. Adjacent to Wodonga across the border is the New South Wales city of Albury. Wodonga is located wholly within the boundaries of the City of Wodonga LGA...
  
  
• Wollonaby, Victoria
• Woorragee, Victoria
• Woorragee North, Victoria
• Yackandandah, Victoria
  Yackandandah, Victoria
  Yackandandah is a small tourist town in northeast Victoria, Australia. It is near the regional cities of Wodonga and Albury, and is close to the tourist town of Beechworth. At the 2006 census, Yackandandah had a population of 663.- History :...
  
  

See also

• Counties of Victoria
  Counties of Victoria
  The Australian state of Victoria is divided into 37 counties. They are part of the lands administrative divisions of Australia. These counties were gazetted in stages between 1849 and 1871 as Victoria was progressively opened up to European settlement. By 1890 all parish boundaries had been gazetted...