Healesville Sanctuary
Healesville Sanctuary, formally known as the Sir Colin MacKenzie Sanctuary, is a zoo specialising in native Australian animals. It is located at Healesville in rural Victoria, Australia, and has a history of breeding native animals.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: John Vandenberg, CC0.
- Opening hours: 9:00 AM—5:00 PM
- Type: Zoo
- Description: zoo in Badger Creek, Victoria, Australia
- Also known as: “Healesville Wildlife Sanctuary” and “Sir Colin MacKenzie Sanctuary”
- Address: Badger Creek Road
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Worawa Aboriginal College and Healesville Railway Station.
Worawa Aboriginal College
School
Worawa Aboriginal College is a private boarding school for Aboriginal girls in Healesville, Victoria, Australia. Worawa Aboriginal College is situated 2 km west of Healesville Sanctuary.
Healesville Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: Forthevline, CC BY 3.0.
Healesville is a railway station in Victoria, Australia. Formerly the terminus of the Healesville railway line, it is currently the principal station of the heritage Yarra Valley Railway. Healesville Railway Station is situated 3½ km northwest of Healesville Sanctuary.
Healesville Sanctuary
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- Location: Yarra Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-37.68428° or 37° 41′ 3″ southLongitude
145.53134° or 145° 31′ 53″ eastElevation
130 metres (427 feet)Operator
Zoos VictoriaOpen location code
4RJ78G8J+7GOpenStreetMap ID
way 24386390OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=zooGeoNames ID
7284427Wikidata ID
Q3047381
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Welsh—“Healesville Sanctuary” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “santuari Healesville”
- Dutch: “Healesville Sanctuary”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هيلسفيل سانكتشوارى”
- Esperanto: “Rifuĝejo Healesville”
- Finnish: “Healesville Sanctuary”
- French: “réserve d’Healesville”
- French: “Réserve d’Healesville”
- French: “Réserve dHealesville”
- German: “Healesville Sanctuary”
- Portuguese: “Santuário Healesville”
- Ukrainian: “Гілсвілл”
- Ukrainian: “Хілсвілл”
- Welsh: “Gwarchodfa Healesville”
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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 “Healesville Sanctuary”. Photo: John Vandenberg, CC0.