HAMILTON, a town of Dundas and Normanby counties, Victoria, Australia, on the Wannon river, 197 m. by rail W. of Melbourne. Pop. (1933) 5,786. It is situated where the western edge of the Great Dividing Range dies down to the plain of west ern Australia, and is thus an important sheep and agricultural country. Mutton is frozen and exported. Hamilton has a number of educational institutions, including the Hamilton and Western District College, and the Hamilton Academy. There is also a race course.