Yackandandah, Victoria
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Yackandandah () is a small town in northeast Victoria, Australia. It is near the industrial towns of Wodonga and Albury, and is close to the tourist town of Beechworth. It is a former gold mining centre, and now in an area of dairy farming and forestry.
Used for the filming of the 2003 film, Strange Bedfellows, (starring Michael Caton and Paul Hogan), Yackandandah is also home to the annual Yackandandah Folk Festival attracting local, Australian and international artists in the folk genre to perform. Like its larger neighbour, Yackandandah promotes itself as a tourist destination on the basis of its gold mining history, and features a period streetscape and an increasing number of antique shops and the like to cater for them.
External links
- http://www.uniqueyackandandah.com.au - The Official Yackandandah & District Tourism Assocciation Web Site
- [Tourism information]
- [Australian Travel Guide entry]
- [Yackandandah Folk Festival] home page.
- [yackandandah.com]
- [Photos of Yackandandah]
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