Yan Yean Reservoir
Yan Yean Reservoir is the oldest water supply for the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. At the time of its completion in 1857 it was the largest artificial reservoir in the world.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Graeme Bartlett, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yan Yean Reservoir
- Type: Reservoir
- Description: lake in Australia
- Category: body of water
- Location: Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-37.55377° or 37° 33′ 14″ southLongitude
145.14204° or 145° 8′ 31″ eastElevation
182 metres (597 feet)Open location code
4RJ7C4WR+FROpenStreetMap ID
way 161019757OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=reservoirGeoNames ID
2142553Wikidata ID
Q2599293
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Yan Yean Reservoir” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Yan Yean Reservoir”
- Dutch: “Yan Yean Reservoir”
- French: “Yan Yean Reservoir”
- German: “Yan Yean Reservoir”
- Spanish: “Embalse Yan Yean”
- Swedish: “Yan Yean Reservoir”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Yan Yean Reservoir”. Photo: Graeme Bartlett, CC BY-SA 3.0.