About Moe
Moe is a town in Latrobe Valley in the Gippsland
region of Victoria, Australia. Moe is
approximately 130 kilometres (80 mi) east of
the CBD of Melbourne, 45 kilometres (30 mi)
due south of the peak of Mount Baw Baw in the
Great Dividing Range and features views of the
Baw Baw Ranges to the north and Strzelecki
Ranges to the south.
At the 2011 census, Moe itself had a population
of 15,292 (including Newborough). It is
administered by the Latrobe City Council. Moe
was originally known as The Mowie, then Little
Moi. The town's name is believed to derive from
a Kurnai (local Indigenous) word meaning
"swamp land".
Moe is a navigation point and stopover for
tourists en route to Erica, the historic goldfields
township of Walhalla, the Walhalla Goldfields
Railway and Mount Baw Baw. Lake Narracan is
nearby, and Moe is home to the annual Moe
Cup horse races, the Moe Jazz Festival and the
recreated historic settlement Old Gippstown.
The city has locally produced Aboriginal/Koorie
art and is regularly home to local Australian
Football & Netball Finals in the Gippsland
League Football & Netball League and the Mid
Gippsland Football League. The region is
represented by Gippsland Power in the TAC
Cup competition.