Lake Wendouree
Lake Wendouree is a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia located immediately west of the Ballarat central business district. It encompasses the man-made recreational lake Lake Wendouree, after which it is named.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 2,940 residents
- Description: suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
- Also known as: “Lake Wendouree, Victoria” and “Lake Wendouree, Victoria, Australia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ballarat Botanical Gardens and Ballarat Tramway Museum.
Ballarat Botanical Gardens
Garden
Photo: Biatch, Public domain.
The Ballarat Botanical Gardens Reserve, located on the western shore of picturesque Lake Wendouree, in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, covers an area of 40 hectares which is divided into three distinct zones.
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Museum
Photo: Peterdownunder, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Ballarat Tramway Museum is an operating tramway museum, located in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The museum is run by volunteers and has a fleet of trams which operate on part of the original horse tramway around Lake Wendouree and the Botanical Gardens.
St John of God Ballarat Hospital
Hospital
St John of God Ballarat Hospital provides hospital care for people living in Ballarat and Western Victoria regions of Australia. Founded in 1915, the 221-bed hospital is located in the central business district of Ballarat, a city in Victoria, Australia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ballarat and Miners Rest.
Ballarat
Photo: Tiimta, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Miners Rest
Suburb
Miners Rest is a suburb north of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia on the north-western rural-urban fringe of the city, 11 kilometres northwest of the Central Business District. Miners Rest is situated 8 km north of Lake Wendouree.
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 9 km east of Lake Wendouree.
Lake Wendouree
- Categories: gazetted locality of Victoria and locality
- Location: City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-37.55023° or 37° 33′ 1″ southLongitude
143.834° or 143° 50′ 2″ eastPopulation
2,940Elevation
452 metres (1,483 feet)United Nations Location Code
AU WENOpen location code
4RJ5CRXM+WHOpenStreetMap ID
node 953734306OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Lake Wendouree” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lake Wendouree”
- Swedish: “Lake Wendouree”
- “Wendouree”
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