Shepparton

Shepparton, city, north-central Victoria, Australia, at the confluence of the Goulburn and Broken rivers, northeast of Melbourne. The site, called Canny-goopna (“River of Big Fish”) by the local Bangerang Aboriginal people, was settled as a sheep run in the early 1840s. The first European settlement was known as Macguire’s Punt, after a ferryman of the 1850s; the present name, which dates from 1853, came from an early settler, Sherbourne Sheppard. Proclaimed a shire in 1879,...