Moe Attractions

Moe (pop. 20,000), in Gippsland, is a coal-mining town occupied by workers in the opencast mines of brown coal in the area. Many of its inhabitants came from Yallourn, another mining town that had to be evacuated because it was situated over valuable seams of coal.

The Yallourn power station with its three huge cooling towers, using coal from the Yallourn opencast mine, can be visited. On the Princes Highway is Old Gippstown Pioneer Township, an open-air museum in which old buildings of the pioneering period have been brought together.