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MIRBOO NORTH STRZELECKI MEMORIAL
RIDGWAY, MIRBOO NORTH, SOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE

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Mirboo North Strzelecki Memorial
Mirboo North Strzelecki Memorial
Mirboo North Strzelecki Memorial
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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Strzelecki Memorial at Mirboo North, constructed by Tom Nilan in 1927, at Ridgway, Mirboo North.

Why is it significant?
The Strzelecki Memorial at Mirboo North is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the town and district of Mirboo North.

Historically, it is important as one of a series of similar memorials that were erected in 1927 at various sites throughout Gippsland, including Korumburra and Leongatha, to commemorate the exploration of Gippsland by Paul Edmund Strzelecki. (AHC criteria - A.4 and D.2)

Aesthetically, it is the most sophisticated of all the memorials to Strzelecki in the Shire, and contributes to the historic and civic character of the Ridgway area. (AHC criterion - E.1)

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