Land Districts
Victoria was also divided into land districts in the nineteenth century, as shown on a 1864 map. The land districts were used as the names for parts of the state where no counties had been proclaimed yet. The land districts included:
- Bourke Land District (Melbourne area, including the County of Bourke)
- Geelong (or Grant) Land District
- Gipps Land District (name for the area today is still Gippsland)
- Loddon Land District
- Murray Land District
- Normanby Land District
- Western Land District
- Wimmera Land District (the southern part still called the Wimmera today)
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