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Toolangi is a rural township in Victoria, Australia. At the , Toolangi and the surrounding area had a population of 289.〔 It is situated on the edge of the Toolangi State Forest. == History == The name Toolangi is an Aboriginal word meaning tall trees. It is believed the area was known as Mt Rose up until the 1890s. Toolangi was first inhabited in the 1860s by paling splitters and then timber cutters, who camped deep in the bush. They were attracted by the huge stands of mountain ash (''Eucalyptus regnans''), a tree that splits easily, and the messmate timber, which proved durable as a building material. Toolangi Post Office opened on 1 August 1900 and closed in 1974. It was not until the early 1960s that electricity came to Toolangi. Together with the opening of the Melba Highway, this created the impetus for industrial expansion in the area. An early development was the Potato Research Station (1945), which was followed by the Strawberry Certification Scheme.〔THE TOWNSHIP OF TOOLANGI - PAST AND PRESENT collated by Ian Whitford〕 On 7 February 2009, the Black Saturday bushfires reached Toolangi and lead to two deaths and 18 homes burnt. Fire surrounded the town for weeks and the whole area was quarantined for three weeks. The township itself and a small segment of forest in the Toolangi State Forest to the east of the town survived. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Toolangi, Victoria」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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