Ensay

Ensay is a small town located between Swifts Creek and Bruthen on the Great Alpine Road in East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. Ensay is north of the major town of Bairnsdale and east of the state capital Melbourne. Other nearby towns include Omeo and Benambra.The town centre is located north of the confluence of the Little and Tambo river; with an altitude of approximately 400m AMSL. The population of Ensay was 331 as at the 2006 census.HistoryThe Aboriginal name for the area around Ensay was Numblamunjie, which translates as ‘blackfish place’. Archibald Macleod (see Bairnsdale, History) set up a station in this area in 1843. He named it after the now unpopulated island of Ensay in the Outer Hebrides of his homeland of Scotland, whose name originates from the Old Norse for Ewe Island.