Gippsland is a large rural region of Victoria (Australia) immediately east of the suburbs of Melbourne extending to the New South Wales border.
Named after Governor George Gipps, it is predominantly a farming and natural resource region, noted for some fine tourist destinations -- Phillip Island, Wilsons Promentory, the Gippsland Lakes, Walhalla, the Baw-Baw Plateau, and the Gourment Deli Region. In natural resources, Gippsland has the largest brown coal fields in Australia, extensive old-growth mountain ash forests, and diverse coastal heathlands and wetlands.
Principal towns and cities: Warragul, Morwell, Traralgon, Sale, Bairnsdale, Lakes Entrance, Cowes, Leongatha, Korumburra and Foster.
