Nicholson

Nicholson is a rural village on the Princes Highway, east Gippsland, 250 km east of Melbourne and 10 km east of Bairnsdale. It is on the Nicholson River which was named by the explorer Angus McMillan in 1840 after Charles Nicholson, a Sydney physician with interests in land and the pastoral industry. (McMillan's exploration was financed by Lachlan Macalister, a New South Wales pastoralist with holdings near Sydney and in the Monaro region, and McMillan also named the Macalister River west of Bairnsdale.)