Warragul

Warragul is a town in Victoria, Australia, 102 kilometers east-southeast of Melbourne. Warragul lies between the Strzelecki Ranges toward the south and the Mount Baw Plateau of the Great Dividing Range toward the north. The town is named after an Aboriginal word signifying "wild dog". As at the 2016 enumeration, the town had a populace of 14,276 people. Warragul shapes some portion of a bigger urban territory that incorporates adjacent Drouin that had an expected populace of 35,353 at June 2016.

Warragul is the fundamental populace and administration focal point of the West Gippsland area and the Shire of Baw. The encompassing territory is noted for dairy cultivating and other specialty horticulture and has for quite some time been delivering gourmet foods. Warragul was settled after the development of the Traralgon railroad line in 1877, the mail station opening on 16 March 1877.

Warragul's Petersville Milk Products Factory in Queen Street provided the well known Peters Ice Cream brand's plant in Mulgrave with all the dairy crude material for a long time. The plant likewise made skim drain powder under the acclaimed Dutch Jug brand and spread under the Iceberg mark. It sent out spread, margarine oil and drain powders to Southeast Asia and the Middle East.