Lemnos

Lemnos, is a rural locality and village in northern Victoria, 8 km north-east of Shepparton. It is in the irrigated orchard/dairying country of the Goulburn Valley.

Lemnos was named after the island in the Aegean Sea to which Australian soldiers were evacuated after the Gallipoli campaign in World War I. Major Ernest Hill, a soldier settler and later a Shepparton Shire councillor, proposed the name.