- Antwerp, Victoria
Infobox Australian Place | type = town
name = Antwerp
state = vic
caption =
lga =Shire of Hindmarsh
postcode = 3414
est =
pop =
elevation=
maxtemp =
mintemp =
rainfall =
stategov = Lowan
fedgov = Mallee
dist1 = 356
dir1 = NW
location1=Melbourne
dist2 = 54
dir2 = NW
location2= Horsham
dist3 = 19
dir3 = N
location3= DimboolaAntwerp is a small town in Victoria,
Australia . It is located on the Dimboola - Rainbow Road, in theShire of Hindmarsh , 22 kilometers north of Dimboola and 356 kilometers north-west of Melbourne.The area was first settled by Europeans in 1846, when George Shaw and Horatio Ellerman applied for convert|130000|acre|km2|-1 for sheep grazing. Ellerman named the area after his birthplace, the Belgian city of
Antwerp . In 1858 two Moravian missionaires, Reverend Hagenauer and Reverend Spieseke, arrived in the area. By 1859 they had built a church, and in 1860 they baptised their first Aborigine.During the 1880s, the Eucalyptus Mallee Oil Company began operations in the township, distilling
eucalyptus oil , which was sold under the brand name EMU.Today, the ruins of the
Ebenezer Mission to Aborigines still stand, but little else remains of the town besides a few houses, a grain silo, and a general store.
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