Timor

History

Places names used in the area over time have included "of the Bet Bet", Chinaman's Flat, Butcher's Bridge, Cox'sTown/Coxtown, Upper, Central, and New Chinaman's, Leviathan Reef, Timor Creek/Lower Alma, Lime Kiln Plains/Timor West, Dwyer's Bridge, Bowenvale, and Timor. The term "Bet Bet" must be identified by its context, as its use in earlier times was not only for the Bet Bet Creek. Locations near the Bet Bet Creek were referred to as "of the Bet Bet" and shortened to "Bet Bet". That is not to be confused with the current Bet Bet hamlet, further downstream on Route C278, which in earlier times was known as Grant's Bridge. Much historic documentation, especially maps, includes the word lead, representing an underground line of gold deposits. The historical records for the area are confounded not just by changing place-names, local names, and changing boundaries, but by the Timor, but not Bowenvale, area being at the crossroads of divisions between various Colonial/State Government administrative sections, including between the Counties of Talbot and Gladstone, between the civil Parishes of Bet Bet, Maryborough and Wareek, between the former local government Shires of Bet Bet and of Tullaroop, which surrounded the Borough, later City of Maryborough, and between modern administrative regions. Most authorities used the Bet Bet Creek as a boundary, but the Town of Timor straddles it. In Victoria, civil parishes are used for cadastral (land-ownership) records, with the shared boundary between the Parishes of Maryborough and Bet Bet being partly Bet Bet Creek Road, and between the Parishes of Maryborough and Wareek partly the Timor Creek. The area was a small part of the territory of the Djadjawurrung people. The first non-Indigenous people arrived, from Britain, in the…

Most-observed species

• Australian Magpie

  Gymnorhina tibicen (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  1,057
• Red Wattlebird

  Anthochaera carunculata (Shaw, 1790) · Aves
  714
• White-plumed Honeyeater

  Ptilotula penicillata (Gould, 1837) · Aves
  613
• Galah

  Eolophus roseicapilla (Vieillot, 1817) · Aves
  568
• Superb Fairywren

  Malurus cyaneus (Ellis, 1782) · Aves
  508
• Welcome Swallow

  Hirundo neoxena Gould, 1842 · Aves
  463
• Little Raven

  Corvus mellori Mathews, 1912 · Aves
  426
• Willie-wagtail

  Rhipidura leucophrys (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  418

Most recent

• M 2.7 — 2007-12-09
  38 km SE of Charlton, Australia
• M 2.8 — 2003-02-02
  9 km N of Trentham, Australia