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Fawkner

Fawkner is a suburb in , Victoria, , 12 km north of Melbourne's , located within the Cities of and local government areas.
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  • Type: Suburb with 14,300 residents
  • Description: suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • Also known as: “Fawkner, Victoria” and “Fawkner, Victoria, Australia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include John Fawkner College and Gowrie railway station.

School
is a government-funded co-educational secondary day school, located in Fawkner, , , Australia. As of 2009 the school had approximately 400 students from Year 7 to Year 12.

Railway station
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Gowrie station is a railway station operated by Metro Trains Melbourne on the Upfield line, part of the Melbourne rail network. It serves the northern suburb of Fawkner in , Victoria, Australia.

Railway station
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Fawkner station is a railway station operated by Metro Trains Melbourne on the Upfield line, part of the Melbourne rail network. It serves the northern suburb of in , Victoria, Australia.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Northern suburbs and Westgarth.

Photo: Bidgee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The of include Ascot Vale, Broadmeadows, Brunswick, Bundoora, Coburg, Epping, Hume, Ivanhoe, Moonee Ponds, Nillumbik Shire, Northcote, South Morang, and Tullamarine.

Neighborhood
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is a neighbourhood within the suburb of , about 4 or 5 km north-east of 's central business district in Victoria, . is situated 9 km south of Fawkner.

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Melbourne's is a vibrant and diverse area, home to a number of cultural and social icons of . It is famed for the popular Lygon Street Italian district, while next door lies the University of Melbourne, the best university in Australia by many rankings.

Fawkner

Latitude
-37.70521° or 37° 42′ 19″ south
Longitude
144.96961° or 144° 58′ 11″ east
Population
14,300
Elevation
77 metres (253 feet)
Open location code
4RJ67XV9+WR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2578957525
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2166819
Wiki­data ID
Q14935141
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In Other Languages

From Belarusian to Ukrainian—“Fawkner” goes by many names.
  • Belarusian: “Фоўкнэр”
  • Cebuano: “Fawkner”
  • French: “Fawkner”
  • German: “Fawkner”
  • Irish: “Fawkner”
  • Japanese: “フォークナー”
  • Malagasy: “Fawkner”
  • Malay: “Fawkner, Victoria”
  • Persian: “فاوکنر، ویکتوریا”
  • Spanish: “Fawkner (Victoria)”
  • Spanish: “Fawkner”
  • Swedish: “Fawkner”
  • Ukrainian: “Фаукнер”
  • “Fawkner”

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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 “Fawkner”. Photo: Wpcpey, CC BY-SA 4.0.