Swifts Creek

The town of Swifts Creek lies in the valley of the Tambo River, near its junction with Swifts Creek, 96 km north of Bairnsdale and about 374 km east of Melbourne.

The territory of the Brabrulung tribe encompassed the area but their number declined rapidly after pastoralists occupied the district from the late 1830s and forced them out. The track to the Gippsland plains from the Monaro, in New South Wales, passed through Omeo, north of present Swifts Creek, and south down the Tambo Valley.