Australia
Victoria
City of Ballarat

Ballarat East

Ballarat East is a suburb of in Victoria, . From 1857 until 1921 the suburb had its own council. The suburb covers a large area east of the city centre.
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  • Type: Suburb with 5,470 residents
  • Description: suburb in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
  • Also known as: “Ballarat East, Victoria” and “Ballarat East, Victoria, Australia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ballarat East Fire Station and Art Gallery of Ballarat.

Fire station
Photo: Peterdownunder, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , in Ballarat East, Victoria, is the oldest continually operating fire station in the Southern Hemisphere. The tower was designed by local architect Henry Caselli and was built in 1864 by William Cowland, a builder and fire brigade volunteer.

Museum
Photo: Biatch, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is the oldest regional art gallery in Australia. It was established in 1884 as the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery by a company of interested citizens led by James Oddie.

Pitch
is an Australian rules football and cricket ground in the city of , , . The first recorded match on the ground in 1862 when Ballarat played HH Stephenson's XI.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ballarat and Warrenheip.

Photo: Tiimta, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city about 110 km north-west of in the region of . 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.

Suburb
is a suburb of , Victoria, on the eastern rural-urban fringe named after nearby . At the 2021 census, had a population of 721. is situated 5 km east of Ballarat East.

Village
is a town in Victoria, Australia. The town is located in the , 108 kilometres west of the state capital, on the flats below and approximately 12 kilometres east of Ballarat. is situated 9 km southeast of Ballarat East.

Ballarat East

Latitude
-37.55921° or 37° 33′ 33″ south
Longitude
143.8744° or 143° 52′ 28″ east
Population
5,470
Elevation
423 metres (1,388 feet)
Open location code
4RJ5CVRF+8Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2741458129
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2177090
Wiki­data ID
Q4851462
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Swedish—“Ballarat East” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Ballarat Est”
  • Cebuano: “Ballarat East”
  • Chinese: “巴拉瑞特东”
  • French: “Ballarat East”
  • Irish: “Ballarat Thoir”
  • Malagasy: “Ballarat East”
  • Persian: “بالارات ایست، ویکتوریا”
  • Russian: “Восточный Балларат”
  • Spanish: “Ballarat Este (Victoria)”
  • Spanish: “Ballarat Este”
  • Swedish: “Ballarat East”

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