Spotswood
Spotswood is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 7 km south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Hobsons Bay local government area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mick Stanic, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Mick Stanic, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Suburb with 2,580 residents
- Description: suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Also known as: “Spotswood, Victoria” and “Spotswood, Victoria, Australia”
- Neighbors: Western suburbs
Places of Interest
Highlights include Spotswood railway station and Scienceworks.
Spotswood railway station
Railway station
Photo: Blackmissionary, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Spotswood station is a railway station operated by Metro Trains Melbourne on the Werribee and Williamstown lines, which are part of the Melbourne rail network.
Scienceworks
Museum
Photo: Wai Hong, Public domain.
Scienceworks is a science museum in Spotswood, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. It is one of three museums operated by Museums Victoria. Displays and activities offered by the museum include hands-on experiments, demonstrations, and tours.
West Gate Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Thad Roan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The West Gate Bridge is a steel, box girder, cable-stayed bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, spanning the Yarra River just north of its mouth into Port Phillip.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Docklands and Inner south.
Docklands
Suburb
Photo: Massimo Telò, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Docklands is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, on the western end of the central business district. Docklands had a population of 15,495 at the 2021 census. Docklands is situated 4½ km east of Spotswood.
Inner south
Photo: Korkut Tas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Melbourne's inner south contains a number of suburbs and places worthy of a visit. The landscape varies from industrial ports to glitzy waterfront localities.
Melbourne
Photo: Scott Cresswell, CC BY 2.0.
Melbourne is Australia's cultural capital and second biggest city, with Victorian-era architecture, extensive shopping, museums, galleries, theatres, and large parks and gardens.
Spotswood
- Categories: gazetted locality of Victoria and locality
- Location: Hobsons Bay, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-37.82964° or 37° 49′ 47″ southLongitude
144.8879° or 144° 53′ 16″ eastPopulation
2,580Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)United Nations Location Code
AU SPWOpen location code
4RJ65VCQ+45OpenStreetMap ID
node 2592354305OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Spotswood” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Spotswood”
- French: “Spotswood”
- German: “Spotswood”
- Hebrew: “ספוטסווד, ויקטוריה”
- Hebrew: “ספוטסווד”
- Irish: “Spotswood”
- Japanese: “スポッツウッド”
- Malagasy: “Spotswood”
- Persian: “اسپاتس وود، ویکتوریا”
- Spanish: “Spotswood (Victoria)”
- Spanish: “Spotswood”
- Swedish: “Spotswood, Victoria”
- Swedish: “Spotswood”
- Turkish: “Spotswood”
- “Spotswood”
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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 “Spotswood”. Photo: Mick Stanic, CC BY 2.0.