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Maindample is a village and rural district on the Maroondah Highway where it passes to the north of Lake Eildon. It is about 120 km. north-east of Melbourne. Maindample is set in lightly timbered, undulating country. To its south-east there is hillier country containing The Paps scenic reserve, consisting of two conical hills. These hills apparently also inspired an Aboriginal name roughly translated as Maindample and thought to mean woman's breasts.

Maindample was a pastoral run of 10,090 ha. on Fords Creek, adjoining Mansfield to the east. The run had a life of twenty years until cancelled in 1866. In the following year goldfields were opened at Maindample, in effect an extension of the prospecting which had uncovered gold at Alexandra, 30 km. to the south-west the year before. In 1868 a school was opened. When mining was at its peak Maindample had a population of nearly 1,000.

Maindample is situated between the tourist venues of Bonnie Doon (on Lake Eildon) and Mansfield (the gateway to the Mount Buller snowfields). The village has a hotel/motel, general store and a public hall, set in a generally pastoral countryside.

The census populations have been 41 (1861), 285 (1901), 106 (1933) and 64 (1961).

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