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{{Short description|Rural Victorian town in Australia near Mount Baw Baw}}
{{about|the town in Australia|the unmanned aircraft|GAF Jindivik}}
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2019}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{Infobox Australian place | type = town
| name = Jindivick
| state = vic
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| lga = Shire of Baw Baw
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| postcode = 3818
| est = 1858
| pop = 584 | pop_year = {{CensusAU|2021}}
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|name = Jindivick (State Suburb)
|accessdate = 2007-08-05
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| elevation = 261
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| county = [[County of Buln Buln|Buln Buln]]
| stategov = [[Electoral district of Narracan|Narracan]]
| fedgov = [[Division of Monash|Monash]]
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| near-ne = [[Neerim East, Victoria|Neerim East]]
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| near-s = [[Rokeby, Victoria|Rokeby]]
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'''Jindivick''' is a town in [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], Australia, located on Jacksons Track, in the [[Shire of Baw Baw]]. The town was first established in 1858 by [[Joseph Jackson (explorer)|Joseph Jackson]]. The word ‘Jindivick’ is an [[Aboriginal Australians|Aboriginal]] word that is translated to, ‘burst asunder’.<ref name="VIC.Places">{{cite web| url = https://www.victorianplaces.com.au/jindivick | title = Jindivick | first = | last = | author-link= | date = 2015| website = [[Monash University]] & [[University of Queensland|The University of Queensland]] | access-date = 4 January 2024}}</ref><ref name="Jindivick">{{cite web| url = https://www.jindivick.org.au/jacksons-track-an-aboriginal-story | title = Jackson’s Track - An Aboriginal story| first = | last = | author-link= | date = 14 March 2014 | website = | access-date = 4 January 2024}}</ref>

==History==
In 1858, Jindivick was established by [[Joseph Jackson (explorer)|Joseph Henry Jackson]] who blazed a track that he named ‘Jackson’s Track’. This track was initially intended to help pastoralists and miners travel from one area to another and to reach [[Mount Baw Baw]]. Due to this demand by travellers, in 1877, a general store opened for business in the southern part of the district and a school was later started. A mechanic’s institute hall was constructed in 1886.<ref name="VIC.Places"/>

The first Drouin Post Office opened on 5 April 1876, was renamed Jindivick in 1878 and Drouin West within months. Jindivick Post Office opened again in 1880 and was renamed Tarago in 1888. The third Jindivick Post Office opened later in 1888 and closed in 1994.<ref name = "PostOffice">{{Citation
| last = Premier Postal History | title = Post Office List | url = https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country= | access-date = 2008-04-11 }}</ref>

In 1910, a [[Presbyterianism|Presbyterian]] and [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] Church was founded to serve the growing population in the first half of the 20th century. By 1954, the town of Jindivick (excluding the surrounding region) had reached a permanent population of 390. Further timber and dairy industries were invested in during the middle part of the 20th century which founded the backbone of the region’s income. Currently, there is a community hall, church, school, tennis court, general store and a reserve with a memorial to the World Wars and the founder of the town, Joseph Jackson.<ref name="VIC.Places"/>

==Notable people==
*[[Joseph Jackson (explorer)|Joseph Jackson]] (1832–1868) – British settler that blazed out Jackson's Track and founded Jindivick in 1858.
*[[Lionel Rose]] {{small|[[Member of the British Empire|MBE]]}} (1948–2011) – [[Aboriginal Australians|Aboriginal Australian]] professional boxer between 1964 and 1976. He was also related to by marriage to the Australian author, Daryl Tonkin who settled in Jindivick in 1936. Rose was Australian of the Year in 1968, the first indigenous Australian to claim that honour. <ref name="VIC.Places"/>
*[[Beau Miles]] (1979–present) – Australian [[YouTuber]] and part of the agricultural community has a large property lot outside the town.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/man-walks-90-kilometres-to-get-to-work-20180819-p4zyf9.html|title = Man walks 90 kilometres to get to work|date = 19 August 2018}}</ref> He is also known from the "[[Bass Strait|Bass]] by Kayak" television series in which he and a small expedition set out to cross the sea from Australian mainland to [[Tasmania]] in [[kayak]]s over a two-week period. He has done many trips similar, including [[Africa]], and is known for his filming and documentaries.

==Further reading==
* ''Burst asunder: Jindivick, the first hundred years'', 1977
* Carolyn Landon and Daryl Tonkin, ''Jackson's Track: memoir of a dreamtime place'', Melbourne, 1999
* Carolyn Landon, ''Jackson's Track revisited'', Clayton, 2006
* G. Butler, ''Buln Buln: a history of the Buln Buln Shire'', 1979

==References==
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{{Towns in Baw Baw Shire}}

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[[Category:Towns in Victoria (state)]]
[[Category:Shire of Baw Baw]]

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