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Geelong

a port in SE Australia, in S Victoria on Port Phillip Bay. Pop.: 130 194 (2001)
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Geelong

 

a city in the Australian Commonwealth, in the state of Victoria. Population, 105,000 (1966). The city is a port on Corio Bay (the western part of Port Phillip Bay). Its industries include wool processing, meat canning, petroleum chemicals, petroleum refining, and cement. Manufactures include automobile bodies, mineral fertilizers, and rolled ferrous metals. An aluminum refinery is located near Geelong at Point Henry.

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It was in 1837 that the first Australia Day Regatta was held on Sydney Harbour and in 1844 the first Melbourne to Geelong Passage Race fleet set off, seven years prior to the US-built schooner America proving too strong against a fleet of Britain's finest ships in a race around England's Isle of Wight that was the inaugural America's Cup.
Neighbours had reported persistent barking from a dog inside the house in a suburb of Geelong, the Geelong Advertiser said.
Smith stressed that if Shell were not to find a buyer for Geelong,A the assetA would be converted into an import terminal.Country: AustraliaSector: Petroleum/Natural Gas/CoalTarget: The Geelong refinery Buyer: Unnamed buyers.Vendor: Royal Dutch Shell Plc Type: DivestmentStatus: Auction
Smith stressed that if Shell were not to find a buyer for Geelong, the asset would be converted into an import terminal.
"I'd love if my kids got tattoos, because it would mean I'd get to do them," the Geelong Advertiser quoted Rich as saying.
The investment will assist with the $5.7 million expansion and upgrade of Turi Foods' chicken processing facilities at Anakie, Bannockburn and Geelong.
Luca Cumani's entire has not won this year, but showed a decent level of form in England before finishing an unlucky seventh in the Geelong Cup.
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