Editing Lake Eildon National Park (section)

==History==
[[File:Lake Eildon National Park from above. March 2021.jpg|thumb|Lake Eildon National Park from above. March 2021.]]
The Goulburn River Valley supported a population of hundreds of members of the [[Aboriginal Australian]] group known as the [[Taungurung]] people. Cultural sites belonging to these people would have been flooded with the creation of Lake Eildon.

The park includes a number of mine shafts related to Victoria's gold rush of the 1860s. The park also contains relics from early pastoral use.

In the 1950s, the [[Government of Victoria (Australia)|Victorian Government]] purchased farming properties along the [[Goulburn River (Victoria)|Goulburn]] and [[Delatite River|Delatite]] rivers for the construction of [[Lake Eildon]] to provide irrigation water for the Goulburn Valley. An area of {{convert|2670|ha|acre}} that wasn't flooded was declared Fraser National Park in 1957. An area of {{convert|24000|ha|acre}} of state forest adjacent to the lake was reserved as Eildon State Park in 1980 to protect the catchment of Lake Eildon. In 1997, the two parks were combined to create Lake Eildon National Park.