Leongatha
Postcode: 3953
Leongatha is a town in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, located 133 kilometres south-east of Melbourne via the South Gippsland Highway. The town is the commercial, educational and civic centre of the region, with some 5000 people living in the town itself, and 25,000 in the surrounding area.
The Murray-Goulburn Dairy Co-operative, which trades under the Devondale label, has a processing plant just north of the town producing milk-based products for Australian and overseas markets. It is also the largest milk factory in the southern hemisphere.
First settlement of the area by Europeans occurred in 1845, and the opening of the railway line from Melbourne in 1892 stimulated further settlement.