Sale: West Sale Airport

Among Victoria’s regional cities, Sale stands out for its historic canal port, created to connect the town with the Thomson River. On Gunaikurnai Country in central Gippsland, it serves a broad district of farmland, wetlands and waterways rather than Melbourne’s urban coast. The Port of Sale heritage precinct recalls the era when vessels used the canal and river to move goods through the region. Nearby, Sale Common is a protected wetland reserve, while the Gippsland Art Gallery brings a contemporary cultural focus to the centre. Sale is also a practical base for reaching the Gippsland Lakes, a large system of coastal lakes and lagoons. Continue through other locations in Gippsland to compare river towns and regional settings around Sale.

Among Australia’s regions, Victoria stands out for the remarkable variety packed between the Murray River and Bass Strait. The state combines fertile northern plains, the Central Victorian Goldfields, the forested Great Dividing Range and a long southern coast. Bendigo and Ballarat grew rapidly during the gold rushes of the 1850s, while Melbourne developed into Victoria’s cultural and economic centre. Along the southwest, the Great Ocean Road follows a dramatic stretch of coastline, contrasting with the farmland and river country inland. See how Victoria belongs within southeastern Australia by browsing webcams across the region.

Australia’s terrain extends from tropical rainforests in the northeast to arid plains in the interior, producing dramatic climatic contrasts. The Great Dividing Range follows much of the eastern coast, while the Great Barrier Reef lies off Queensland in the Coral Sea and Uluru rises from the central desert. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples maintain living cultures whose connections to Country long predate European settlement. In Sydney, the sail-like Opera House, completed in 1973, stands beside one of the world’s best-known harbours. Discover further points of interest through webcams located across Australia.