Yarra Park
Yarra Park is a public park that is part of the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct, a sporting precinct in Victoria, Australia. Located in Yarra Park is the Melbourne Cricket Ground and numerous sporting fields and ovals, including the associated sporting complexes of Melbourne and Olympic Parks.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Park
- Description: park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Address: East Melbourne
Places of Interest
Highlights include Melbourne Cricket Ground and Australian Sports Museum.
Melbourne Cricket Ground
Stadium
Photo: Flickerd, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Melbourne Cricket Ground, also known locally as the 'G, is a sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne, Victoria. Founded and managed by the Melbourne Cricket Club, it is the largest stadium in the Southern Hemisphere, the eleventh-largest stadium globally and the second-largest cricket stadium by capacity.
Australian Sports Museum
Museum
Photo: Aaroncrick, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Australian Sports Museum is a museum dedicated to Australian sport and is located within the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia. There are exhibits for sports such as cricket, Australian rules football, the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, tennis, rugby league, rugby union, soccer, basketball, boxing and netball.
Melbourne Park
Sports venue
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Melbourne Park is a sports venue in the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Since 1988, Australia's bicentenary, Melbourne Park has been home of the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament played annually in January.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jolimont and Inner east.
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.
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.
Chinatown
Neighborhood
Photo: Sgroey, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chinatown is an ethnic enclave in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Centred at the eastern end of Little Bourke Street, it extends between the corners of Swanston and Spring streets, and consists of numerous laneways, alleys and arcades.
Yarra Park
- Categories: urban park and recreation area
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-37.81973° or 37° 49′ 11″ southLongitude
144.98414° or 144° 59′ 3″ eastElevation
95 metres (312 feet)Open location code
4RJ65XJM+4MOpenStreetMap ID
way 131707394OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Yarra Park” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Yarra Park”
- Swedish: “Yarra Park”
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