# Quambatook

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{{for|the 2008 musical|Quambatook (musical)}}
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| name                     = Quambatook
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'''Quambatook''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|w|ɒ|m|b|ə|t|ʊ|k}} is a town in the [Shire of Gannawarra](/source/Shire_of_Gannawarra), [Victoria](/source/Victoria_(Australia)), [Australia](/source/Australia), {{convert|302|km|mi}} from the state capital, [Melbourne](/source/Melbourne). Quambatook is located on the [Avoca River](/source/Avoca_River). At the {{CensusAU|2021}}, Quambatook had a population of 229, a decline from 249 at the {{CensusAU|2016}}.<ref name="ABS2016">{{cite web |title=2016 Census QuickStats Quambatook |url=http://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/quickstat/SSC22119 |website=Australian Bureau of Statistics |access-date=21 February 2019 |archive-date=6 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306072527/http://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/quickstat/SSC22119 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=ABS2021>{{Census 2021 AUS | id = SAL22131| name = Quambatook (State Suburb) | quick = on}}</ref> 

== History==
Quambatook was settled following the end of the [Victorian gold rush](/source/Victorian_gold_rush) of the 1850s.  Resumption of large [squatter](/source/squatting_(pastoral))'s land holdings for closer settlement in the 1870s led to Quambatook becoming one of Victoria's leading [wheat](/source/wheat) and [sheep](/source/sheep) producing areas.<ref name="Shire">{{cite web | url = http://www.gannawarra.vic.gov.au/Page/page.asp?Page_Id=42&h=0 | title = Towns in Gannawarra | publisher = Gannawarra Shire Council | access-date = 2007-06-04 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070614160750/http://www.gannawarra.vic.gov.au/Page/Page.asp?Page_Id=42&h=0 | archive-date = 2007-06-14 }}</ref> Quambatook Post Office opened on 1 September 1879.<ref name = "a">{{Cite web | last = Phoenix Auctions History | title = Post Office List | url = http://www.phoenixauctions.com.au/cgi-bin/wsPhoenix.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&filter=*Quambatook*  | access-date = 24 March 2021}}</ref>

Quambatook has been recognised as the [tractor pulling](/source/tractor_pulling) capital of Australia with an annual competition, the Australian Tractor Pulling Championships, held at Easter since 1976.<ref name="Travelmate">{{cite web | url = http://www.travelmate.com.au/Places/Places.asp?TownName=Quambatook_%5C_VIC | title = Quambatook Victoria | publisher = Travelmate | access-date = 21 June 2025 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110822095813/http://travelmate.com.au/Places/Places.asp?TownName=Quambatook%5F%5C%5FVIC | archive-date = 22 August 2011}}</ref>  In fact, the town's motto is 'Land of wheat and wool, home of the tractor pull'.{{Citation needed|date=January 2008}} 
The town is where [country music](/source/country_music) performer [John Williamson](/source/John_Williamson_(singer)) grew up. Williamson has written a musical named for the town.<ref name="Shire"/><ref name="Musical">{{cite web | url = http://www.johnwilliamson.com.au/Default2.htm | title = QUAMBATOOK is a family musical. | publisher = johnwilliamson.com.au | access-date = 21 June 2025 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071104071311/https://johnwilliamson.com.au/Default2.htm | archive-date = 4 November 2007}}</ref>

Golfers play at the course of the Quambatook Golf Club on Boort Road.<ref name = "golf">{{Cite web  | author= Golf Select | title = Quambatook | url = http://www.golfselect.com.au/armchair/courseView.aspx?course_id=1069 | access-date = 2009-05-11}}</ref>
 
The primary school closed in 2017 after no applications to teach the six remaining students were received.<ref>{{Cite news | url = https://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/4500305/quamby-applications-all-deemed-not-suitable/ | title = Quambatook Group School to close despite more than 50 expressions of interest in principal job | work = [Bendigo Advertiser](/source/Bendigo_Advertiser) | access-date = 21 June 2025 | url-access = subscription | author = Kearney, Mark | date = 2 March 2017}}</ref>

After over a century, Quambatook Football Club was dissolved following the 2022 season of the [Golden Rivers Football League](/source/Golden_Rivers_Football_League).<ref>{{Cite news | url = https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-01/quambatook-football-netball-club-dissolve-2022-mallee-town/101026174 | title = Quambatook will lose its football-netball clubs this year. Here's how the town plans to survive | work = [ABC News](/source/ABC_News_(Australia)) | date = 1 May 2022 | author = Darling, Alexander | access-date = 21 June 2025}}</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Quambatook War Memorial 002.JPG|War memorial
File:Quambatook Post Office 002.JPG|Post office
File:Quambatook Welcome Sign.JPG|Guthrie St
File:Quambatook Avoca River 002.JPG|Avoca River and River St
File:Quambatook Store.JPG|General store
</gallery>

==See also==
* [Quambatook (musical)](/source/Quambatook_(musical))

==References==
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==External links==
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