Lang Lang, Victoria

Lang Lang is a town in Victoria, Australia, 73 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shires of Bass Coast, Cardinia and South Gippsland local government areas.

[1] The village is just off the South Gippsland Highway near its intersection with the Bass Highway, on the Lang Lang River and borders the region of Dalmore, a large asparagus growing region.

In the Australian Aboriginal Woiwurrung language, the name Lang Lang,[3] also spelled Laang Laang, meant "stones" or "stony".

[4] An alternate explanation is that the town is named in honour of an early settler in the region, called Lang.

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.