Eureka
Eureka is a small eastern suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. It was originally part of Ballarat East but became its own suburb in 1946 in recognition of the area's significance to Australian history.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 627 residents
- Description: locality in Victoria, Australia
- Also known as: “Eureka, Victoria” and “Eureka, Victoria, Australia”
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ballarat Wildlife Park and Ballarat East Fire Station.
Ballarat Wildlife Park
Zoo
The Ballarat Wildlife Park is a zoo in Ballarat, Victoria. Opened in February 1985, it is privately owned by founder Greg Parker, and Julia Leonard and managed by Jared Mulholland.
Ballarat East Fire Station
Fire station
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The Ballarat East Fire Station, in Ballarat East, Victoria, Australia is the oldest continually operating fire station in the Southern Hemisphere. The tower was designed by local architect Henry Caselli and was built in 1864 by William Cowland, a builder and fire brigade volunteer.
Eastern Oval
Pitch
Eastern Oval is an Australian rules football and cricket ground in the city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The first recorded match on the ground in 1862 when Ballarat played HH Stephenson's XI.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ballarat and Warrenheip.
Ballarat
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Ballarat is a city about 110 km north-west of Melbourne in the Goldfields region of Victoria. Ballarat is most noted as a former goldmining town with excellent examples of Australian colonial architecture, and as the site of the famous miners' revolt at the Eureka Stockade in 1854.
Warrenheip
Suburb
Warrenheip is a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia on the eastern rural-urban fringe named after nearby Mount Warrenheip. At the 2021 census, Warrenheip had a population of 721. Warrenheip is situated 4 km east of Eureka.
Dunnstown
Village
Dunnstown is a town in Victoria, Australia. The town is located in the Shire of Moorabool, 108 kilometres west of the state capital, Melbourne on the flats below Mount Warrenheip and approximately 12 kilometres east of Ballarat. Dunnstown is situated 8 km east of Eureka.
Eureka
- Category: locality
- Location: City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-37.56472° or 37° 33′ 53″ southLongitude
143.8826° or 143° 52′ 57″ eastPopulation
627Elevation
447 metres (1,467 feet)Open location code
4RJ5CVPM+42OpenStreetMap ID
node 953780542OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
8347920Wikidata ID
Q14935140
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to French—“Eureka” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Eureka (localitat)”
- Chinese: “尤利卡”
- Chinese: “尤里卡”
- French: “Eureka”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Ballarat East and Bakery Hill.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Eureka Stockade and Eureka Stockade Holiday Park.
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