Morwell Open Cut Mine
Morwell Open Cut Mine is a quarry in City of Latrobe, Victoria.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Quarry
- Description: mine in Victoria, Australia
- Also known as: “Former Morwell Brown Coal Mine”, “Morwell Open Cut”, and “Morwell Opencut”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Morwell railway station and Hazelwood Power Station.
Morwell railway station
Railway station
Photo: Brad F 89, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Morwell railway station is a regional railway station on the Gippsland line, part of the Victorian railway network. It serves the town of Morwell, in Victoria, Australia. Morwell railway station is situated 3 km northeast of Morwell Open Cut Mine.
Hazelwood Power Station
Photo: Mriya, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Hazelwood Power Station is a decommissioned brown coal-fuelled thermal power station located in the Latrobe Valley of Victoria, Australia. Built between 1964 and 1971, the 1,600-megawatt-capacity power station was made up of eight 200MW units, and supplied up to 25% of Victoria's base load electricity and more than 5% of Australia's total electricity demand. Hazelwood Power Station is situated 2½ km southeast of Morwell Open Cut Mine.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Morwell and Churchill.
Morwell
Town
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Morwell is a town in the Latrobe Valley area of Gippsland, in South-Eastern Victoria, Australia approximately 152 km east of Melbourne. Morwell has a population of 14,389 people at the 2021 census. Morwell is situated 3 km northeast of Morwell Open Cut Mine.
Churchill
Town
Churchill is a town in the Latrobe Valley, located in central Gippsland in the east of Victoria, Australia. The town had a population of 4,924 at the 2021 census, and is part of the Latrobe City local government area. Churchill is situated 7 km southeast of Morwell Open Cut Mine.
Morwell Open Cut Mine
- Categories: mine and industry
- Location: City of Latrobe, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-38.25742° or 38° 15′ 27″ southLongitude
146.37279° or 146° 22′ 22″ eastElevation
132 metres (433 feet)Open location code
4RH8P9VF+24OpenStreetMap ID
way 23445079OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=quarry
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Morwell Open Cut Mine” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Morwell Opencut”
- Swedish: “Morwell Opencut”
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