Long Gully is a suburb of the regional city of Bendigo in Victoria, Australia, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) north-west of the Bendigo central business district. At the 2016 census, Long Gully had a population of 3,383.[1]
| Long Gully Bendigo, Victoria | |
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Long Gully | |
| Coordinates | 36°44′S 144°15′E |
| Population | 3,383 (2016 census)[1] |
| Postcode(s) | 3550 |
| Location | 3 km (2 mi) NW of Bendigo |
| LGA(s) | City of Greater Bendigo |
| State electorate(s) | Bendigo West |
| Federal division(s) | Bendigo |
Long Gully is a working-class suburb of Bendigo, with many older style fibro houses, punctuated by well-established light industry. The suburb is the location of the Bendigo RSL club, in Havilah Road.
Long Gully was heavily affected by the Black Saturday bushfires, causing one death.[2]
It is the birthplace of Dick Richards, GC (14 November 1894 – 8 May 1986).[3] Richards was an Australian science teacher who joined Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in December 1914 as a physicist with the Ross Sea Party. He was 22 years old. He outlived all other members of the expedition and became the last survivor of the so-called "Heroic Age" of Antarctic exploration, dying at the age of 91 in 1986. His life-saving feats in the Antarctic are detailed in the book Shackleton's Heroes.
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