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Emergency contacts: Nearest Police - Rawson, Heyfield, Moe, Traralgon (24 hours); Horizontal Datum: Australian Geodetic Datum 1966
nearest hospital - Traralgon West; nearest town - Erica, Rawson, (Transverse Mercator Projection Zone 55)

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Elements of this map including relief, transport and drainage have been sourced from Victorian Government data sets and reproduced by permission of the Department of Sustainability and Environment.
ã The State of Victoria, Department of Sustainability and Environment, 2005. This material may be of assistance to you but the State of Victoria and its employees do not guarantee that the publication is without flaw
of any kind or is wholly appropriate for your particular purposes and therefore disclaims all liability for any error, loss or consequence which may arise from your relying on any information contained in this material.