Kanes Bridge
Kane's Bridge, also written as Kanes Bridge and previously known as Kane's Suspension Bridge, is a wooden suspension bridge located in Yarra Bend Park, Melbourne, Australia over the Yarra River, linking the inner-city suburbs of Fairfield and Kew.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Bridge
- Description: bridge in Boroondara City, Victoria, Australia
- Also known as: “Kane’s Bridge” and “Kane’s Bridge, Yarra River”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Villa Alba Museum and Dights Falls.
Villa Alba Museum
Museum
Villa Alba at 44 Walmer St, Kew, is a museum in the State of Victoria, Australia. It was built and decorated between 1882 and 1884 for Anna Maria McEvoy and her husband, William Greenlaw who was the General Manager of the Colonial Bank of Australasia in Melbourne. Villa Alba Museum is situated 570 metres south of Kanes Bridge.
Dights Falls
Waterfall
Photo: Michaelschmatz, Public domain.
Dights Falls is a rapid and weir on the Yarra River in Melbourne, Victoria, just downstream of the junction with the Merri Creek. At this point the river narrows and is constricted between 800,000-year-old volcanic, basaltic lava flow and a much older steep, silurian, sedimentary spur. Dights Falls is situated 1 km northwest of Kanes Bridge.
Johnston Street Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Johnston Street Bridge is a concrete road bridge crossing the Yarra River between the Melbourne suburbs of Abbotsford and Kew. The current bridge was constructed in 1954-56 by the Country Roads Board using a design employing cast-in-place reinforced-concrete curved T girders and an integral flat slab deck. Johnston Street Bridge is situated 530 metres west of Kanes Bridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Inner east and Westgarth.
Inner east
Photo: Nicolás Boullosa, CC BY 2.0.
The inner east of Melbourne consists of a number of suburbs and localities within the Yarra municipality. Compared with glitzy Stonnington on the other side of the river, the inner eastern area is known among Melburnians as a working-class district, filled with pubs and old factories.
Westgarth
Neighborhood
Photo: Batterbu, Public domain.
Westgarth is a neighbourhood within the suburb of Northcote, about 4 or 5 km north-east of Melbourne's central business district in Victoria, Australia. Westgarth is situated 2½ km northwest of Kanes Bridge.
Jolimont
Neighborhood
Jolimont is an unbounded neighbourhood of the suburb of East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Situated to the south east of the city's primary axis, Jolimont features parks, business precincts and a limited amount of residential accommodation. Jolimont is situated 3 km southwest of Kanes Bridge.
Kanes Bridge
- Categories: footbridge, suspension bridge, and transportation
- Location: City of Boroondara, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Fulah—“Kanes Bridge” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جسر كين (ملبورن)”
- Arabic: “جسر كين”
- Fulah: “Cuuɗol Kane”
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