Cardigan
Cardigan is a suburb on the north-western rural-urban fringe of Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 census, Cardigan had a population of 1,064. Cardigan Post Office opened 1 January 1861 and was closed on 30 June 1975.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 763 residents
- Description: suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
- Also known as: “Cardigan, Victoria”, “Cardigan, Victoria, Australia”, and “Windermere”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ballarat Aerodrome and Ballarat Aviation Museum.
Ballarat Aerodrome
Aerodrome
Photo: Novakreo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ballarat Airport is located 4 nautical miles west of Ballarat in the outer suburb of Mitchell Park, Victoria, Australia. Ballarat Aerodrome is situated 3½ km northeast of Cardigan.
Ballarat Aviation Museum
Museum
Ballarat Aviation Museum is an Australian aviation museum located at Ballarat Airport in Ballarat, Victoria. Among other exhibits it contains a CAC Wirraway, an Ikara anti-submarine missile, a Mignet Pou-du-Ciel, a MacFarlane, an Iskra, a PZL TS-11 Iskra and a Walter HWK 109-509 rocket engine, the type that was used to power the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet. Ballarat Aviation Museum is situated 3 km northeast of Cardigan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Miners Rest and Haddon.
Miners Rest
Suburb
Miners Rest is a suburb north of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia on the north-western rural-urban fringe of the city, 11 kilometres northwest of the Central Business District. Miners Rest is situated 6 km northeast of Cardigan.
Haddon
Village
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Haddon is a township in the Golden Plains Shire, 12 km west of Ballarat. The population at the 2016 census was 1,194. 84.4% of people were born in Australia and 90.8% of people spoke only English at home. Haddon is situated 8 km southwest of Cardigan.
Ballarat
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Ballarat is a city about 110 km north-west of Melbourne in the Goldfields region of Victoria. Ballarat is most noted as a former goldmining town with excellent examples of Australian colonial architecture, and as the site of the famous miners' revolt at the Eureka Stockade in 1854.
Cardigan
- Category: suburb
- Location: City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-37.52905° or 37° 31′ 45″ southLongitude
143.75752° or 143° 45′ 27″ eastPopulation
763Elevation
422 metres (1,385 feet)Open location code
4RJ5FQC5+92OpenStreetMap ID
node 2869718617OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityGeoNames ID
2172346Wikidata ID
Q5038500
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Cardigan” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Cardigan”
- Irish: “Cardigan”
- Swedish: “Cardigan, Victoria”
- Swedish: “Cardigan”
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