Business District of Beaufort, a small Highway town in Victoria about 160 kilometers west of Melbourne. The town is a service centre to the area which produces beef, fat lambs, wool, cereals and timber.

Beaufort - Beaufort visitor guide showing a virtual tour of 'Beaufort' linked to an interactive map with local and travel information. 360° panoramas from Victoria.

Beaufort is situated on the Western Highway 160 kilometers west of Melbourne. Beaufort was one of four settlements that sprung up during the 1854 gold rush at Fiery Creek. The town was surveyed in 1857, the first council meeting was held in 1864. The area was once occupied by the Jajowarrung Aborigines who called the area Peerick. Activities in the area include hiking, camping, boating, fishing, golfing, hang gliding, heritage walk, art/antique shopping and more. Several hotels, cafes and shops service the large number of motorists traveling from Melbourne to Adelaide or the Grampians National Park. Radical activist, labour leader and poet, Bernard O'Dowd was born at Beaufort in 1866, although his attempts to set up a local school failed as his free-thinking, skeptical attitude to conventional religiosity and wayward spiritualism were unpopular. On a more earthy note, it is alleged that vegemite was invented at Beaufort in 1923 by Dr Cyril Percy Callister.