Sale (pop. 14,100) is a city in the Gippsland district of Victoria, Australia. Sale lies on the Thomson River, a tributary of the La Trobe. It is surrounded by a prosperous agricultural, grazing, dairy farming, and irrigation district. Industries in the city include a plastics factory and service companies related to the offshore oil and gas industry.
The Royal Australian Air Force base at East Sale has been an important training school since 1943. In 1965, natural gas and oil were discovered in Bass Strait. Sale became the commercial center for an operation that provides much of Australia’s oil and nearly all of Victoria’s gas requirements.
The district was first settled in 1844. Governor Charles Fitz Roy of New South Wales approved the plan for the village of Sale in 1850. Sale was proclaimed a town in 1924 and a city in 1950.
See also Victoria.
