Toorak Hotel, Torquay
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Toorak Hotel, Torquay
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 5 Jul 2014
Viewed from Chestnut Avenue. The 3-star hotel is part of the THL Leisure Resort hotel group. I wondered from what language Toorak derives. Most online references for toorak are Australian, derived from the Aboriginal language Woiwurrung, in which the word can mean either reedy swamp or black crow. The connection with this location in Torquay is not obvious to this observer, so maybe this Toorak's name is mere coincidence.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.465437
Longitude
-3.540809