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Yarra Valley

The Yarra Valley is the name given to the region surrounding the Yarra River in Victoria, Australia. The river originates approximately 90 kilometres east of the City of Melbourne and flows towards it and out into Port Phillip Bay.

Located at -37.7667, 145.617 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9.032 miles away.
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Regions of Victoria (Australia), Wine regions of Victoria (Australia), Yarra River, Yarra Valley

Healesville Sanctuary

Healesville Sanctuary, or the Sir Colin MacKenzie Fauna Park, is a zoo specializing in native Australian animals. It is located at Healesville in rural Victoria, Australia, and has a history of breeding native animals. It is one of only two places to have successfully bred a platypus, the other being Sydney's Taronga Zoo. It also assists with a breeding population of the endangered Helmeted Honeyeater.

Located at -37.6822, 145.532 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9.032 miles away.
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Zoos in Australia, Visitor attractions in Victoria (Australia), 1934 establishments in Australia, Parks in Victoria (Australia), Yarra Valley

Yarra Ranges Shire

The Yarra Ranges Shire is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the outer eastern and northeastern suburbs of Melbourne extending into the Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges. It has an area of 2,469.9 square kilometres, and at the 2011 census, it had a population of 144,541. It was formed in 1994 by the merger of parts of the Shire of Sherbrooke, Shire of Lillydale, Shire of Healesville and Shire of Upper Yarra.

Located at -37.7333, 145.683 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9.036 miles away.
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Local Government Areas in Melbourne, Local Government Areas of Victoria (Australia), Yarra Valley

Badger Creek, Victoria

Badger Creek is a town in Victoria, Australia, 53 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Badger Creek had a population of 1788. Badger Creek is near the Healesville Sanctuary and the former Coranderrk Aboriginal Station, now known as the Coranderrk Bushland.

Located at -37.685, 145.538 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9.032 miles away.
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Towns in Victoria (Australia), Yarra Valley

Healesville, Victoria

Healesville is a town in Victoria, Australia, 52 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Healesville had a population of 6567. Healesville is situated on the Watts River, a tributary of the Yarra River.

Located at -37.656, 145.514 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9.032 miles away.
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Towns in Victoria (Australia), Yarra Valley

Chum Creek, Victoria

Chum Creek is a town in Victoria, Australia, 50 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Chum Creek had a population of 848. The area is served by the 687 bus route operated from Healesville by McKenzie's Tourist Services.

Located at -37.606, 145.488 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9.034 miles away.
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Towns in Victoria (Australia), Yarra Valley

Millgrove, Victoria

Millgrove is a small town in Victoria, Australia, 63 km east of Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Millgrove had a population of 1576. Millgrove is located along the Warburton Highway, between Wesburn and Warburton. The Post Office opened on 7 November 1906, four years after the opening of the town's railway station on 13 November 1901 on the Warburton line.

Located at -37.753, 145.652 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9.034 miles away.
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Towns in Victoria (Australia), Yarra Valley

Warburton, Victoria

Warburton is a town in Victoria, Australia, 72 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Warburton had a population of 2288. The name “Warburton” has been shared between two townships over the years. The mining town of “Yankee Jim's Creek” was located on the gold-bearing slopes of Mount Little Joe, and was renamed “Warburton” after the mining warden of the district, Charles Warburton Carr.

Located at -37.755, 145.697 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9.035 miles away.
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Towns in Victoria (Australia), Mining towns in Victoria (Australia), Yarra Valley

Wesburn, Victoria

Wesburn is a town in Victoria, Australia, 62 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Wesburn had a population of 619. Predominantly rural in nature, the township has a narrow ribbon of residential dwellings along and branching off the Warburton Highway. The name Wesburn is derived from its original name of West Warburton.

Located at -37.767, 145.647 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9.033 miles away.
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Towns in Victoria (Australia), Yarra Valley

Healesville railway station

Healesville is a railway station in Victoria, Australia. Formerly the terminus of the Healesville railway line, it is currently the principal station of the Yarra Valley Railway. A temporary station was built on the site in 1888–1889 when the railway line was extended from Lilydale to Healesville. The current station was built in 1903 and is now listed with Heritage Victoria. The station closed along with the Healesville line in 1980.

Located at -37.6549, 145.51 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9.032 miles away.
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Tourist railway stations in Melbourne, Yarra Valley

Marysville, Victoria

Marysville is a small town, 34 kilometres north-east of Healesville, in the Shire of Murrindindi in Victoria, Australia. The town, which previously had a population of around 500 people, was devastated by the Murrindindi Mill bushfire on 7 February 2009. On 19 February 2009 the official death toll was 45. Around 90% of the town's buildings were destroyed.

Located at -37.5, 145.733 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9.049 miles away.
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Towns in Victoria (Australia)

Yarra Valley Railway

The Yarra Valley Railway is a Heritage railway operating on a section of the former Healesville railway which operated between Lilydale and Healesville in the Yarra Valley area northeast of Melbourne, Australia.

Located at -37.6597, 145.489 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9.031 miles away.
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Tourist railways in Victoria (Australia), Heritage railways in Australia, 5ft 3in gauge railways, Yarra Valley

Acheron Boys Home

Acheron Youth Camp, an Australian minimum security training facility for juvenile males, is located in Buxton, Victoria, Australia, approximately 100 kilometres north–east of Melbourne. The facility is operated by Youth Justice Custodial Services, an agency of the Department of Human Services of the Victorian Government. Set on 350 acres, the camp is an alternative custodial option for up to ten young men aged 15–17 on Youth Justice Centre Orders.

Located at -37.5097, 145.546 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9.041 miles away.
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Prisons in Victoria (Australia)

Wesburn railway station

Wesburn was a railway station on the Warburton line in Melbourne, Australia. Originally called West Warburton, the station operated until the line's closure in 1965. The only remnant of the station is the crumbling retaining wall of the platform.

Located at -37.7656, 145.638 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9.033 miles away.
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Disused railway stations in Melbourne, Railway stations opened in 1901, Railway stations closed in 1965

Steavenson Falls

Steavenson Falls are one of the tallest in Victoria, with 5 cascades, a total descent of 122 metres, the last having a clear drop of more than 21 metres. The Steavenson Falls are definitely Marysville's main claim to tourism fame and have been since European arrival in Marysville. Residents cut a track to the falls in 1866. Since then the natural environs of the Falls and their approach have not altered dramatically.

Located at -37.5327, 145.774 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9.049 miles away.
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Waterfalls of Victoria (Australia)

Moora Moora

Moora Moora is a co-operative residential community made up of a diverse group of about 50 adults and 20 children. They deliberately choose to live together in six small hamlets located on a co-operatively owned 245 hectare (600 acre) property situated at an altitude of 700 meters (2400 ft) on Mount Toolebewong. The community is situated near the township of Healesville (Victoria, Australia), approximately 67 km (90 minutes by car) to the East of the city of Melbourne.

Located at -37.7217, 145.568 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9.032 miles away.
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Towns in Victoria (Australia)

Donnelly Weir

Donnelly Weir (formerly Donnelly's Weir) is located in the Yarra Ranges. It is a part of the system that supplies water to the city of Melbourne. It is managed by Melbourne Water. It is often visited by students studying Melbourne's water supply because of its easy access and information signs. It was heavily impacted by the Black Saturday bushfires and was closed for many months afterwards. The immediate areas were burnt out and all of the facilities had to be replaced.

Located at -37.6282, 145.535 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9.035 miles away.
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Geography of Victoria (Australia)

Shire of Healesville

The Shire of Healesville was a local government area about 60 kilometres northeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of 466.20 square kilometres, and existed from 1887 until 1994.

Located at -37.65, 145.517 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9.033 miles away.
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Former Local Government Areas of Victoria (Australia)

Maroondah Reservoir

The Maroondah Reservoir is a small reservoir used to supply water to Melbourne, Victoria. Constructed in the 1920s by the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, it is a concrete gravity dam. It is now operated by Melbourne Water. Like most of Melbourne's water storages, the entire catchment is eucalypt forest completely closed to human activity, as is the reservoir itself.

Located at -37.6347, 145.563 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9.035 miles away.
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Geography of Melbourne

Narbethong, Victoria

Narbethong is a town in central Victoria, Australia. The town is located on the Maroondah Highway, 87 kilometres north east of the state capital, Melbourne. At the 2006 census, Narbethong and the surrounding area had a population of 280. Narbethong Post Office opened on 16 October 1883 and closed in 1993. The town was substantially damaged in the Black Friday bushfires in 1939. It was again severely impacted in the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009.

Located at -37.562, 145.658 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9.043 miles away.
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Towns in Victoria (Australia)

Warburton Hospital

Warburton Hospital was a private Adventist hospital in Warburton, Victoria in Australia. The hospital was owned by Signs Publishing Company. The hospital made a net loss of $2.25 million (including depreciation) over the previous five years. It was placed on the market on January 1998.

Located at -37.7512, 145.705 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9.036 miles away.
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Hospitals affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Hospitals in Victoria (Australia), Hospitals established in 1910, Australian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Fernshaw, Victoria

Fernshaw is a bounded rural locality in Victoria, Australia, on Acheron Way between Marysville to the north and Warburton to the south. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges.

Located at -37.637, 145.717 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9.042 miles away.
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Towns in Victoria (Australia)

Mount Toolebewong, Victoria

Mount Toolebewong is a bounded rural locality in Victoria, Australia 65 kilometres north-east of Melbourne, Australia and south of Healesville. The summit of the mountain is 750m above sea level. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Mount Toolebewong had a population of 325. The locality is home to one of Australia's oldest intentional communities, Moora Moora Community Cooperative.

Located at -37.702, 145.572 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9.033 miles away.
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Towns in Victoria (Australia)

Watts River

The Watts River is a tributary of the Yarra River. It rises on the southern slopes of the Great Dividing Range, north east of Healesville, Victoria, Australia and joins the Yarra River near Healesville. Tributaries of the river include Donnelly and New Chum Creeks. The river became part of Melbourne's water supply system in 1891, with the construction of a diversion weir and the Maroondah Aqueduct. At this time the catchments were closed and cleared of human habitation.

Located at -37.6247, 145.66 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9.040 miles away.
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Geography of Melbourne, Tributaries of the Yarra River

Yarra Valley (wine)

The Yarra Valley is an Australian wine region located east of Melbourne, Victoria. It is a cool climate region that is best known for producing Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Its proximity to the urban centre and high profile wineries have made it an important destination for enotourism, receiving over 3.1 million visitors in 2011.

Located at -37.7667, 145.617 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9.032 miles away.
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Australian wine, Wine regions of Victoria (Australia), Geography of Victoria (Australia)