Lang Lang, Victoria

Lang Lang was formerly known as Carrington, after Lord Carrington.{{cite web |url=http://www.langlang.net/briefhistory.html |title=Brief History of Lang Lang |publisher=Lang Lang & District Historical Society |access-date=7 April 2014 }}

The origin of the name Lang Lang is debated. In the Australian Aboriginal Woiwurrung language, the name Lang Lang,{{cite web |url=https://services.land.vic.gov.au/vicnames/historicalInformation.html?method=edit&id=4182 |title=Lang Lang: 101776: Traditional Name: Lang Lang |work=VICNAMES |publisher=Government of Victoria |date=12 August 2011 |access-date=7 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407085519/https://services.land.vic.gov.au/vicnames/historicalInformation.html?method=edit&id=4182 |archive-date=7 April 2014 }} also spelled Laang Laang, meant "stones" or "stony".{{cite web |url=https://services.land.vic.gov.au/vicnames/historicalInformation.html?method=edit&id=4181 |title=Lang Lang: 101776: Traditional Name: Laang Laang |work=VICNAMES |publisher=Government of Victoria |date=12 August 2011 |access-date=7 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407085327/https://services.land.vic.gov.au/vicnames/historicalInformation.html?method=edit&id=4181 |archive-date=7 April 2014 }}

An alternate explanation is that the town is named in honour of an early settler in the region, called Lang.{{cite book |author=Reed, A. W. |author-link=Alexander Wyclif Reed |title=Place names of Australia |year=1973 |edition=1st |location=Frenchs Forest |publisher=Reed Books |isbn=0-589-50128-3 |page=135 }}

A Lang Lang post office opened on 20 May 1878. In 1891, after the arrival of the railway, it was renamed Lang Lang West and a new Lang Lang office was opened near the station. A post office known as Lang Lang East opened in 1885 but was replaced by Nyora in 1890, again near the station.{{Citation| last = Phoenix Auctions History | title = Post Office List | url = http://www.phoenixauctions.com.au/cgi-bin/wsPhoenix.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&filter=*Lang*Lang* | access-date = 22 February 2021 }}

General Motors Holden operated the Lang Lang Vehicle Proving Ground,[https://web.archive.org/web/20110628235657/http://www.holden.com.au/corporate/about-holden/environmentfacilities/facility-profiles/proving-groundholden-service-parts-operations Lang Lang Vehicle Proving Ground] Holden - Go Better a vehicle development, durability testing, safety test centre and exhaust emission facility, located on the South Gippsland Highway near Lang Lang.[https://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=-38.347109,145.572009&hl=en&ll=-38.352898,145.58404&spn=0.038837,0.069437&num=1&t=h&z=14 Lang Lang Vehicle Proving Ground location] Google Maps

A rodeo has been held regularly at Lang Lang on Easter Monday since the 1940s. The town has an Australian rules football team competing in the Ellinbank & District Football League as well as a netball team.{{Citation|last=Full Points Footy |title=Lang Lang |url=http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/Lang_Lang.htm |access-date=2008-07-25 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820023018/http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/lang_lang.htm |archive-date=20 August 2008 }} Golfers play at the course of the Lang Lang Golf Club on the South Gippsland Highway, Nyora.{{Citation | author= Golf Select | title = Lang Lang | url = http://www.golfselect.com.au/armchair/courseView.aspx?course_id=1010 | access-date = 2009-05-11 }}

In the 2016 Census, there were 1,585 people in Lang Lang. 84.8% of people were born in Australia and 92.9% of people spoke only English at home. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 38.2%, Anglican 20.4% and Catholic 18.6%.

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Lang Lang was formerly situated along the South Gippsland railway corridor that operated to its terminus at Yarram in the early 1980s and Leongatha in the mid 1990s. A V/Line road coach service replaced the rail service to Leongatha on 24 July 1993, running between Melbourne and Yarram. However, since the closure of the South Gippsland rail line with the exception of the locally run tourist railway between Nyora and Leongatha by the Kennett Victorian government on 14 December 1994, the South and West Gippsland Transport Group represented by the local council are campaigning for the rail services to be reinstated beyond the current terminus at Cranbourne by the 2020s.[https://web.archive.org/web/20131231000517/http://www.sgst.com.au/rail-return-an-election-issue/ Rail return an election issue] Sentinel Times17December 2013

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• City of Cranbourne – Lang Lang was previously within this former local government area.
• Lang Lang railway station
• List of reduplicated Australian place names

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• [http://www.langlang.net/ Lang Lang Township].
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20081227205835/http://www.holden.com.au/www-holden/jsp/environmentcommunity/environmentcommunity.jsp?link=holdenenvironment&heading=facilities&topic=holden_proving_ground&id= Holden Proving Ground Lang Lang - Company website]

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