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.

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 across the Yarra River, located in Abbotsford, Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. The weir is situated downstream of the Yarra's confluence with Merri Creek, south of where the Eastern Freeway crosses the creek. Dights Falls is situated 1 km northwest of Kanes Bridge.

Johnston Street Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Johnston Street Bridge is a concrete road bridge across the Yarra River between Abbotsford and Kew, inner-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. 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 kilometres 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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Latitude

-37.80014° or 37° 48′ 1″ south

Longitude

145.01013° or 145° 0′ 37″ east

Elevation

17 metres (56 feet)

Open location code

4RJ752X6+W3

GeoNames ID

8170170

Wikidata ID

Q33190821

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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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