Lindenow, Victoria
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Lindenow is a town in Victoria, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, located on Dargo Road, in the Shire of East Gippsland near Bairnsdale
Bairnsdale, Victoria
Bairnsdale is a small city in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. With a population at the 2006 census of 11,282, it is a major regional centre of eastern Victoria along with Traralgon and Sale....

.

At the 2006 census
Census in Australia
The Australian census is administered once every five years by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The most recent census was conducted on 9 August 2011; the next will be conducted in 2016. Prior to the introduction of regular censuses in 1961, they had also been run in 1901, 1911, 1921, 1933,...

, Lindenow had a population of 338.

Lindenow is a small town, with a small centre and hotel. The fertile river flats of Lindenow produce vegetables that are shipped all round Australia and represent premium product.

Mitchell River National Park

Mitchell River National Park
Mitchell River National Park
The Mitchell River National Park is a national park in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. It is approximately 300 km east of Melbourne by the most direct road route, and about 40 km north of Bairnsdale.-Mitchell River:...

 surrounds the spectacular Mitchell River
Mitchell River (Victoria)
The Mitchell River is the largest unregulated river in Victoria, Australia and provides a unique example of riparian ecology. Tributaries include the Crooked, Dargo, Wentworth, Wonnangatta, and Wongungarra Rivers, which are surrounded by dense native forest on the steep mountains of the Victorian...

 where it passes between high cliffs. There are several gorges, including the Den of Nargun
Nargun
According to Gunai/Kurnai tribal legends, the Nargun is a fierce half-human half-stone female creature that lived in the Den of Nargun, a cave under a rock overhang behind a small waterfall in the Mitchell River National Park, Victoria, Australia. Aboriginal legend describes the Nargun as a beast...

 mentioned in Aboriginal Legends. Remnants of temperate rainforest line some of the gorges. The park is 11900 ha (29,405.5 acre) in size and contains some of Gippsland's best forest country.

Football

The town has an Australian Rules football team competing in the East Gippsland Football League
East Gippsland Football League
The East Gippsland Football League is an Australian rules football League in the East Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia.-History:The East Gippsland FL in its present incarnation began in 1974 with the merger of the Gippsland Football League and the Bairnsdale District Football League...

. One of the founding clubs of the league in 1974, they are known as the Cats. They won the premiership in 1980, 1986, 1989 and 1991.

The Lindenow South team, the Swampies (Swamp Hawks), has competed in the Omeo & District Football League
Omeo & District Football League
The Omeo and District Football League is an Australian Rules Football League based out of the Tambo Valley region of East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. The ODFL has existed in some form since 1893, and operates under the auspices of the Victorian Country Football League...

 since 2004. Prior to that they competed in the Riviera Football League
Riviera Football League
The Riviera Football League was an Australian rules football league in the East Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia.-History:The Riviera FL was created in 1986, when the second division of the East Gippsland Football League broke away to form its own league, joined by some clubs from the North...

from 1986 to 2003.
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