Drouin is a major service town, located in the West
Gippsland region, 90 kilometres (56 mi) east of
Melbourne, in the Australian state of Victoria. The
local government area for Drouin is the Shire of
Baw Baw. The town of Drouin is supposedly named
after a Frenchman who invented a chlorination
process for the extraction of ore or an Aboriginal
word meaning "north wind". New housing
developments have accelerated the Drouin's
residential growth in recent years. As at the 2011
census, Drouin had a population
of 9,686 people.