Yelta is a locality in Victoria, Australia. It was for a short time in the 1870s and 1880s the Victorian administrative centre of what is now Sunraysia and the Millewa. This role was then taken over by Mildura. At the 2011 census, Yelta and the surrounding area had a population of 281.[2]
Yelta Aboriginal Mission (1855–1868) was established by the Church of England[4][5][6] on the banks of the Murray River[7] Local aboriginal people called a small billabong near the site of the mission, Yelta.
Military history
During World War II, Yelta was the location of RAAF No.29 Inland Aircraft Fuel Depot (IAFD), completed in 1942 and closed on 14 June 1944. Usually consisting of 4 tanks, 31 fuel depots were built across Australia for the storage and supply of aircraft fuel for the RAAF and the US Army Air Forces at a total cost of £900,000 ($1,800,000).[8]
^Thinee, Kristy; Bradford, Tracy; New South Wales. Department of Community Services (1998), Connecting kin : guide to records : a guide to help people separated from their families search for their records (1st ed. printed September 1998 ed.), New South Wales Dept. of Community Services, ISBN978-0-7310-4262-3
^"Mission to the Aborigines". The Argus. No. 2648. Melbourne. 15 December 1855. p. 5. Retrieved 25 January 2018 – via National Library of Australia.