The town is on the northern foothills of the Blue Ranges, part of the Great Dividing Range, beside Holland Creek, 226 kilometres (140 mi) north east of the state capital, Melbourne.

[1] The area is a mixture of farmland, pine plantations and dense bush The Post Office opened on 10 October 1890 and closed in 1993.

Timber from the surrounding hills was harvested to supply the early Melbourne power station, but coal from the Latrobe Valley became the favoured fuel source.

[4] Tatong is the birthplace of Michael Joseph Savage, the first Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand,[5] and Graeme Peck, male lead for the Australian Ballet Company.

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