Aerial view - Historic images - Walkaround : Lara : Victoria Australia

Lara is a residential town set in rural surrounds between Melbourne and Geelong, north-east of Geelong across Corio Bay and approximately 62km 38mi south west of the State capital Melbourne. It is thought that the name "Lara" is derived from an Aboriginal word meaning stone or building of stones. It is situated on Hovells Creek, which drains into Limeburners Bay which is an indent on the Corio Bay coastline. The Melbourne to Geelong railway (built in 1856) passes through Lara and the Princes Freeway skirts the town's southern boundary. Initially opened as Duck Ponds, the railway station was given its current name of Lara on 30 June 1875. On the other side of the freeway there is the Avalon airport. Credits and References: State Library – Victoria https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/ Photographers and contributors; Victoria. Department of Crown Lands and Survey Collins, John T. (1907-2001) National Archives of Australia https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/Searc... https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/Searc... Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara_ra... By Effluvium1 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Victorian Places https://www.victorianplaces.com.au/lara _________________________________________________________________________________________________ We welcome you to comment, click the 'thumbs up' / 'like' button if you enjoyed the content and please click to subscribe; subscribing is TOTALLY free and helps with our channel. We would like to keep this channel kids and family friendly as much as possible, but also want viewers to express their positive thoughts or criticisms - Any suggestions or ideas for new drone locations, places to visit or requests on something historical for us to research are welcome in the comments; even to promote a business or location ! If you require an aerial video for your business or location, we'll give it a go and we are non-for-profit ... It's a hobby we enjoy doing. Any anti-social comments, poor language or links to your viewing choices can be left at our email address, so others don't need to experience them and us to delete! Also political, religious, discriminatory and racial remarks will be subject to the same. Urban Aerial Explorer can be contacted via email C/O Ludwig or son Alexander : [email protected] Facebook -   / urbanaerialexplorer   Postal Mail : 2-18 Davisons Place Melbourne 3000 Victoria Australia