Moscow Villa Hut
The place
Moscow Villa Hut in the state of Victoria, Alpine National Park/Wonnangatta area (eastern Victorian Alps, Australia), at 1097 m altitude, on the Victorian Alps flank. Part of the continuous Australia Victorian Alps cluster (batches 260-410). A historic mountain cattlemen's hut of the Victorian Alps (Alpine NP, 6,462 km², established 1989, the largest in Victoria, iconic + Wonnangatta Valley, historic station 1861, ghost town from 1918 following an iconic double murder + the mountain cattlemen tradition from the 19th-20th centuries + homeland of the Taungurung/Jaitmatang (Aboriginal peoples: 2,000 Taungurung, now-extinct Taungurung language + 300 Jaitmatang Alps people, now-extinct Jaitmatang language + the iconic legacy of British invasion, 1770, Cook + the Convict Colony, 1788, First Fleet + the Gold Rush, 1851, Ballarat/Bendigo/Beechworth, 20 million ounces over 40 years + the iconic legacy of "The Man from Snowy River" by Banjo Paterson, 1890, an iconic national poem + the iconic legacy of the Black Saturday bushfires, 7 February 2009, 173 dead, Victoria's worst fire in history, iconic + Black Summer 2019-2020, 33 dead, 24 million hectares, 3 billion animals killed, iconic + the iconic legacy of Ned Kelly, 1854-1880, bushranger, Glenrowan, 27 June 1880, executed in Melbourne 11 November 1880, iconic + the iconic legacy of Mabo v Queensland, 3 June 1992, native title, terra nullius rejected, iconic + Kevin Rudd's apology, 13 February 2008, to the Stolen Generations, iconic + the iconic legacy of the mysterious Wonnangatta murder, 1918, James Barclay-John Bamford, iconic ghost stories of the National Park).
The setting
Victoria, Alpine NP/Wonnangatta, Victorian Alps, E. Australia, 1097 m, on the Victorian Alps flank, continuous cluster batches 260-410, historic mountain cattlemen's hut of the Victorian Alps + Alpine NP 6,462 km², est. 1989, largest in Victoria, iconic + Wonnangatta 1861, ghost town from 1918, iconic double murder + mountain cattlemen 19th-20th centuries, Taungurung/Jaitmatang: 2,000 Taungurung, extinct language + 300 Jaitmatang Alps people, extinct language + British invasion 1770, Cook + Convict Colony 1788, First Fleet + Gold Rush 1851, Ballarat/Bendigo/Beechworth, 20 million ounces + "The Man from Snowy River", Paterson, 1890, iconic national poem + Black Saturday bushfires, 7 Feb 2009, 173 dead, Victoria's worst fire, iconic + Black Summer 2019-2020, 33 dead, 24 million ha, 3 billion animals killed, iconic + Ned Kelly, 1854-1880, bushranger, Glenrowan, 27 June 1880, executed 11 Nov 1880, iconic + Mabo, 3 June 1992, native title rejected, iconic + Rudd's apology, 13 Feb 2008, to the Stolen Generations, iconic + Wonnangatta murder 1918, Barclay-Bamford, iconic ghost stories of the National Park.
