Mardan and Mardan South

Mardan is a rural locality in the Strzelecki Ranges, west Gippsland, 7 km south of Mirboo North. Mardan South is 5 km to its south-west. According to Bunce's Language of the Aborigines of the Colony of Victoria (1859) it means to bewail, bemoan or sadness.

Farm selections were taken up in the Mardan district in the 1880s: whilst the landscape is hilly, it is less precipitous than the ranges adjoining it. Schools were opened: Mardan (1884-1993), Mardan West (1890-92) and Mardan South (1892).