Bright (Vic.)
- Local Government Area
- Alpine
- Postcode
- 3741
- Population
- 2,620
- Area
- 131.74 km²
- Coordinates
- -36.7026, 147.0290
- Data
- Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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About Bright (Vic.)
Bright is a town in the Ovens Valley in north-eastern Victoria, in the foothills of the Victorian Alps and near Mount Buffalo National Park. It began as the gold-mining settlement of Morse's Creek and was renamed Bright in the 1860s after the English reformer and politician John Bright. When mining declined the town turned to alpine tourism, helped by its railway, opened in 1890. Today the planted European trees that line its streets produce the autumn colour celebrated by the Bright Autumn Festival.
Nearby localities
- Germantown (Vic.) 6 km
- Freeburgh 8 km
- Porepunkah 10 km
- Wandiligong 11 km
- Kancoona 11 km
- Coral Bank 11 km