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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Deer Park is a
suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 17 km west from Melbourne's
central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of
Brimbank. At the 2006 Census, Deer Park had a population of 12,152.The
suburb was originally named Kororoit Creek, after the creek running
through the suburb but was renamed after the Melbourne Hunt Club used
the area to house their stock of game deer. The original Hunt Club
building still stands on the Western Highway, next to the Deer Park
sports oval and is now a community centre.Following the discovery of
gold in Ballarat and Bendigo, to the west, there became a great demand
for explosives. Deer Park was chosen as the site of Melbourne's first
explosives factory, the Albion Explosives Factory, in the 1870s.
