Geographic Centre of Victoria

The centroid of Victoria was presented in a paper titled "The Centroid(s) of Victoria" and presented at the Marysville Survey Conference 2000 conference by RE Deakin and SC Bird of RMIT University. The paper presented some results of the calculation of the centroids of Victoria and came up with 8 different mathematical solutions. These methods were Moment, Area (N-S/E-W), Arithmetic Mean, Root Mean Square, Harmonic Mean, Geometric Mean, Median and Minimum Distance.

In lay terms the Moment Centroid is the point on which the state would be perfectly balanced and can be determined mathematically using complex formulae and electronically by the use of Vicmap digital data and the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS).

It was determined by the researchers that the Moment Centroid made the most practical sense. Using this method Victoria's centre was calculated to be in the Mandurang area, just outside Bendigo (see attached map).