Gelantipy
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{{Infobox Australian place | type = town
| name = Gelantipy
| state = Vic
| image = Gelantipy Road.jpg
| caption =
| use_lga_map = yes
| coordinates = {{coord|37|13|12|S|148|15|36|E|display=inline,title}}
| pushpin_label_position = top
| lga = Shire of East Gippsland
| postcode = 3885
| est =
| pop = 20
| pop_year = {{CensusAU|2016}}
| pop_footnotes ={{Census 2016 AUS | id = SSC20968 | name = Gelantipy (State Suburb) | accessdate = 5 September 2020 | quick = on}}
| elevation = 755
| maxtemp = 16.6
| mintemp = 6.8
| rainfall = 796.4
| stategov = Gippsland East
| fedgov = Gippsland
}}
Gelantipy is a locality in the Shire of East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.
Mount Gelantipy, notable for its old growth alpine ash forests is 12 km. east within the Snowy River National Park.
The Karoonda Park hostel on Gelantipy Road includes a local bus stop and unstaffed fuel service (business hours). The Gelantipy Cemetery, Public Hall and Reserve are several kilometres south, alongside Butchers Creek.
History
The traditional owners of the lands that are now called Gelantipy are the Gunai people.
The Scot Edward Bayliss established the Gelantipy pastoral run in 1839 for his employer Edward Lord, a merchant.
Gelantipy was a mining area in addition to timber milling and livestock production. The East Gippsland Shire Thematic Environmental History (2005) says:
"Traces of silver and lead were found as early as 1857 in the Buchan district. Over the ensuing years, a number of companies mined in the area, around Back Creek, Murrindal, Mt Tara, Canni Creek, Gelantipy and Mt Deddick areas. The government provided a battery but most mining ceased by 1907. Little remains to mark the sites of these mines. …At the Campbells Knob Mine near Gelantipy, where silver was mined in the 1890s, two mine adits are visible but no trace remains of the small settlement near the mine."
The history also records that there was a sawmill at Gelantipy in the period after World War Two. This was operated by Gibbs Bright & Co.
Bushfires affected the region in 1952, 2003 and 2014. In 2018 an upgraded CFA fire station was opened next to the district Bush Nursing Centre.
Frank Moon, who developed the Buchan Caves for tourism in the early 1900s, was born in Gelantipy.
=Seldom Seen roadhouse=
Seldom Seen is a remote locality in the Victorian high country, just north of Gelantipy and close to the Snowy River.
The Seldom Seen Roadhouse was located near 5373 Gelantipy Road, Wulgulmerang East, about 30 km. from the NSW border.Lennox Raphael Eyvindr, [https://books.google.com/books?id=F2APywAACAAJ "Seldom Seen Roadhouse"], Plor {{ISBN|978-613-8-53687-1}} (November 2011)
Between Buchan in Victoria and Jindabyne in New South Wales,
Roland Dusik, [https://books.google.com/books?id=7-NUAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA182 "Australien, der Osten und Tasmanien"], DuMont Reiseverlag. pp. 182–. {{ISBN|978-3-7701-7680-9}} (24 January 2013) the Seldom Seen Roadhouse was the only place for fuel along the Snowy. "Mobil" Dave Woodburn[https://www.bicycles.net.au/forums/viewtopic.php?t=57036 "In memory of David Woodburn"], Australian Cycling Forums 2 Oct 2012 was the owner.
The owner relied on the small tourist trade during the 1990s and 2000s. Before the alpine bushfires of 2003,[http://www.theage.com.au/national/after-the-inferno-hope-kindness-and-red-tape-20030222-gdv9n0.html "After the inferno, hope, kindness, and red tape"], The Age 22 February 2003 Seldom Seen Roadhouse was a typical 1960s-era petrol station. By March 2005, the roadhouse was trading from a caravan, which was then replaced with a more permanent structure.
Unfortunately that trade was steadily diminishing. A few tourist buses from Melbourne would make the trip through Seldom Seen daily. This bus route also stopped around 2010. Dave Woodburn died in 2012, and since then the area has been cleared; all that remains is a hut and a Telstra payphone.
Climate
Due to its south-facing location, it is often much cooler at Gelantipy during the daytime than at higher elevations further north (such as at Jindabyne), particularly in the summer. Snowfalls are common throughout the year, sometimes falling in late spring to early summer.
{{Weather box
|location = Gelantipy (1992–2023); 755 m AMSL; 37.22° S, 148.26° E
|metric first = yes
|single line = yes
|precipitation colour = green
|Jan record high C = 39.2
|Feb record high C = 39.2
|Mar record high C = 33.9
|Apr record high C = 30.8
|May record high C = 22.6
|Jun record high C = 18.3
|Jul record high C = 18.5
|Aug record high C = 21.6
|Sep record high C = 27.4
|Oct record high C = 29.0
|Nov record high C = 34.9
|Dec record high C = 36.5
|Jan high C = 24.0
|Feb high C = 23.0
|Mar high C = 20.5
|Apr high C = 16.6
|May high C = 12.9
|Jun high C = 10.2
|Jul high C = 9.7
|Aug high C = 11.1
|Sep high C = 14.0
|Oct high C = 16.6
|Nov high C = 19.1
|Dec high C = 21.4
|Jan low C = 11.9
|Feb low C = 11.5
|Mar low C = 9.9
|Apr low C = 7.2
|May low C = 4.9
|Jun low C = 3.1
|Jul low C = 2.3
|Aug low C = 2.9
|Sep low C = 4.5
|Oct low C = 6.1
|Nov low C = 8.1
|Dec low C = 9.7
|Jan record low C = 1.8
|Feb record low C = 3.1
|Mar record low C = 1.2
|Apr record low C = -0.9
|May record low C = -1.7
|Jun record low C = -3.5
|Jul record low C = -4.0
|Aug record low C = -3.5
|Sep record low C = -2.3
|Oct record low C = -2.0
|Nov record low C = 0.0
|Dec record low C = 0.6
|Jan precipitation mm = 65.6
|Feb precipitation mm = 65.6
|Mar precipitation mm = 63.4
|Apr precipitation mm = 57.2
|May precipitation mm = 48.2
|Jun precipitation mm = 70.6
|Jul precipitation mm = 55.6
|Aug precipitation mm = 54.4
|Sep precipitation mm = 58.4
|Oct precipitation mm = 71.6
|Nov precipitation mm = 96.4
|Dec precipitation mm = 72.7
|year precipitation mm = 780.2
|Jan precipitation days = 12.3
|Feb precipitation days = 11.9
|Mar precipitation days = 13.8
|Apr precipitation days = 13.8
|May precipitation days = 14.2
|Jun precipitation days = 14.1
|Jul precipitation days = 15.0
|Aug precipitation days = 13.8
|Sep precipitation days = 14.4
|Oct precipitation days = 14.9
|Nov precipitation days = 14.7
|Dec precipitation days = 13.9
|year precipitation days = 166.8
|humidity colour=green
|Jan afthumidity = 55
|Feb afthumidity = 58
|Mar afthumidity = 60
|Apr afthumidity = 61
|May afthumidity = 68
|Jun afthumidity = 69
|Jul afthumidity = 68
|Aug afthumidity = 61
|Sep afthumidity = 60
|Oct afthumidity = 60
|Nov afthumidity = 61
|Dec afthumidity = 58
|source 1 ={{cite web
| url = http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_084142.shtml | title = Climate statistics for Gelantipy | publisher= Bureau of Meteorology|accessdate= }}
|date=August 2018
}}
References
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