Rochester, Victoria

Rochester is a small town in country Victoria, Australia. It is located 180km north of Melbourne with a mixture of rural and semi-rural communities in the northern Goulburn River Valley, between Bendigo and the Murray River port of Echuca.

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Victoria - Australia - Melbourne - Goulburn River - Bendigo - Murray River - Echuca

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It has a co-educational public Secondary College with 470 pupils in 2004.

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The town is famous as the birthplace in 1904 of Australian racing and endurance cyclist, Sir Hubert Opperman, affectionately known as Oppy. There is a museum dedicated to Oppy in Moore street, and a statue of him winning the 24 hour Bol D'or race in Paris in 1928. On his 90th birthday Oppy donated one of his trusty Malvern Star bicycles to the museum.

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1904 - Cyclist - Hubert Opperman - Paris

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