Town Pier

Station Pier is a historic Australian pier on Port Phillip, in Port Melbourne, Victoria. Opened in 1854, the pier is Melbourne's primary passenger terminal, servicing interstate ferries and cruise ships, and is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.

Photo: Dashers, Public domain.

Type: Bus stop
Description: historic Australian pier on Port Phillip, in Port Melbourne, Victoria
Also known as: “Station Pier”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Beacon Cove light rail station and Princes Pier.

Beacon Cove light rail station

Tram stop

Photo: Donaldytong, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Beacon Cove light rail station is a tram stop, which is situated 240 metres northeast of Town Pier.

Princes Pier

Pier

Photo: Karn-b, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Princes Pier is a 580 metre long historic pier on Port Phillip, in Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was known as the New Railway Pier until renamed Prince's Pier after the Prince of Wales who visited Melbourne in May 1920. Princes Pier is situated 460 metres northwest of Town Pier.

Port Melbourne Town Hall

Town hall

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Port Melbourne Town Hall was erected in 1882. The Town Hall is an important element in the historic Bay Street streetscape of inner city Port Melbourne. Port Melbourne Town Hall is situated 1¼ km northeast of Town Pier.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Inner south and Docklands.

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.

Docklands

Suburb

Photo: Massimo Telò, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Docklands is an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, Australia, located directly to the western end of the Melbourne central business district between the neighboring suburbs of West Melbourne to the north/northwest, and South Wharf, South Melbourne and Port Melbourne to the south/southwest. Docklands is situated 3 km north of Town Pier.

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.

Town Pier

Categories: pier, transport stop, and transportation
Location: City of Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-37.84265° or 37° 50′ 34″ south

Longitude

144.93172° or 144° 55′ 54″ east

Elevation

4 metres (13 feet)

Operator

Sita

Network

PTV - Metropolitan Buses

Open location code

4RJ65W4J+WM

OpenStreetMap ID

node 9399158061

OpenStreetMap feature

public_transport=stop_position

GeoNames ID

2207605

Wikidata ID

Q7604279

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to German—“Town Pier” goes by many names.

Chinese: “火車站棧橋”
Chinese: “火车站栈桥”
Chinese: “車站碼頭”
German: “Station Pier”

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