Altona
Altona is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 km south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Hobsons Bay local government area.Photo: JohnnoShadbolt, CC BY 2.5.
Photo: Philip Mallis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Suburb with 11,500 residents
- Description: suburb of Melbourne, Australia
- Also known as: “Altona, Victoria” and “Altona, Victoria, Australia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Westona railway station and Mount St. Joseph Girls’ College.
Westona railway station
Railway station
Photo: Alex1991, Public domain.
Westona station is a railway station operated by Metro Trains Melbourne on the Werribee line, which is part of the Melbourne rail network. It serves the western suburb of Altona, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Mount St. Joseph Girls’ College
School
Mount St. Joseph Girls' College is a Catholic Girls College located in Maidstone Street, Altona, Victoria, Australia. Mount St. Joseph Girls’ College is one of few schools in Australia that is a Josephite college, founded by the Josephite Order in 1964.
Altona railway station
Railway station
Photo: Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Altona station is a railway station operated by Metro Trains Melbourne on the Werribee line, which is part of the Melbourne railway network. It serves the south-western suburb of the same name, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Western suburbs.
Western suburbs
Photo: Rexness, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Western suburbs of Melbourne include the areas of Airport West, Caroline Springs, Essendon, Kensington, Flemington, Footscray, Keilor, Melton, Point Cook, Sunshine, Sydenham, Werribee, Williamstown and Yarraville.
Altona
- Categories: gazetted locality of Victoria and locality
- Location: Hobsons Bay, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-37.86022° or 37° 51′ 37″ southLongitude
144.8137° or 144° 48′ 49″ eastPopulation
11,500Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)United Nations Location Code
AU ALTOpen location code
4RJ64RQ7+WFOpenStreetMap ID
node 2148888695OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“Altona” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Altona”
- Chinese: “維多利亞州阿爾托納區”
- Dutch: “Altona (Victoria)”
- Dutch: “Altona”
- French: “Altona”
- German: “Altona”
- Hebrew: “אלטונה, ויקטוריה”
- Hebrew: “אלטונה”
- Irish: “Altona”
- Japanese: “アルトナ (ビクトリア州)”
- Malagasy: “Altona”
- Malay: “Altona, Victoria”
- Persian: “آلتونا، ویکتوریا”
- Portuguese: “Altona (Vitória)”
- Portuguese: “Altona”
- Russian: “Алтона”
- Spanish: “Altona (Victoria)”
- Spanish: “Altona”
- Swedish: “Altona (del av en befolkad plats i Australien, Victoria)”
- Swedish: “Altona, Victoria”
- Urdu: “الٹونا، وکٹوریہ”
- “Altona”
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