Yambuk is a town in 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....

, Australia

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. The township was established in the 1850s, the Post Office opening 1 March 1859.

At the 2006 census

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, the town and surrounding area had a population of 540. It is located where the Princes Highway

Princes Highway

The Princes Highway extends from Sydney to Port Augusta via the coast through the states of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, a distance of 1941 km or 1898 km via the former alignments of the highway ....

 crosses the Shaw River

Shaw River

The Shaw River is an ephemeral river in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.The headwaters of the river rise below the Chichester Range near Emu Springs and flow in northerly direction through Hillside. The river is braided and has many islands in the riverbed including Long Island and Rocky...

. It is the site of Pacific Hydro

Pacific Hydro

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’s Yambuk Wind Farm and the adjacent Codrington Wind Farm.

To the west of Yambuk is the locality of Codrington which is notable for the wind farm and for being the only township in Australia to be named after a bushranger

Bushranger

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. In 1850 Codrington Revingstone held up the Portland

Portland, Victoria

The city of Portland is the oldest European settlement in what is now the state of Victoria, Australia. It is the main urban centre of the Shire of Glenelg. It is located on Portland Bay.-History:...

 to Port Fairy

Port Fairy, Victoria

Port Fairy is a coastal town in south-western Victoria, Australia. It lies on the Princes Highway in the Shire of Moyne, west of Warrnambool and 290 km west of Melbourne, at the point where the Moyne River enters the Southern Ocean.-History:...

mail coach three times and the area became known as "Codrington's Forest". In the 1870s a township was surveyed on the projected road to Portland close to the coast and named, unwittingly, as Codrington.
A road was later built inland and the township never established.

Yambuk is locally known for the Yambuk Slide, a large slide near the lake.