Lorne Historical Society News
INDIGENOUS HERITAGE
April 13, 2024 The Indigenous custodians of the land that makes up the Otway Ranges is believed to be the Gadubanud people. Their connection to land stretches back thousands of years as evidenced by the aboriginal middens around Lorne. It is hard in the twenty first century to agree on ‘the facts’ about life in what is called...Read more
Hooded Plovers
March 15, 2024 For the first time in recorded history, Hooded Plovers have chosen to breed and raise two chicks on Lorne’s famous beach. The chicks were protected by an exclusion zone between the rock groyne and Erskine river estuary.
Plaque for Martha Snowden
October 25, 2023 The Geelong Cemetery Trust donated a plaque to commemorate the first burial in 1881 in the Lorne Cemetery.1920
June 22, 2022 A power generating plant is built on the Erskine River near what is now the Tourist Information Centre.2021
June 22, 2022 June: 4-day re-emergence of wreck on main beach (map coordinates 38 32’ 7.368” S : 143 58’43.812” E) after severe easterly.2021
June 22, 2022 Covid-19 Variant Delta escapes quarantine in Victoria. LOCKDOWN #4 (Victoria only) begins 4/6/21.
