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| simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stringybark_Creek
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| * Stringybark Creek is a small creek in the Wombat Ranges, Victoria, Australia.
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| : '''tsinkipaku nahaki nahe tliyama te uampati uekutoliya otlaya'''
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| * It is famous as the place where bushranger Ned Kelly, his brother Dan Kelly, and friends Joe Byrne and Steve Hart killed three policemen on 26 October 1878.
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| : '''hina naye tauetsa'o te otempa tlepanyekauepa'o keli neta ma taku hayo tanu ma amyakom tso puna ma tseue hato ke tsumuko ha'o mataye'''
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| * The policemen, Sergeant Michael Kennedy, Constable Thomas Lonigan, and Constable Michael Scanlan were searching the forest for the Kelly brothers.
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| * They were wanted for the attempted murder of another policeman, Constable Fitzpatrick.
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| * The creek is in the Toombullup State Forest, 50km from Benalla and 36km from Mansfield.
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| * The area has been developed for visitors and includes picnic area, camping, toilets and walking tracks.
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| * A memorial stone has been put in the picnic area, and a tree at the site of the shootings, the Kelly Tree, has a small copy of Ned Kelly's helmet attached to it.
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