Appleton Dock
Appleton Dock is an international shipping facility in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was opened in about 1956 by the Melbourne Harbor Trust, and is named after MHT commissioner William Thomas Appleton, who was a staunch advocate of harbour improvements in the early 20th century.Places of Interest
Highlights include Bolte Bridge and Swanson Dock.
Bolte Bridge
Bridge
The Bolte Bridge is a twin cantilever road bridge across the Yarra River and Victoria Harbour, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The bridge carries the Melbourne CityLink via eight lanes of traffic – four lanes northbound and four lanes southbound.
Swanson Dock
Dock
Swanson Dock is an international shipping facility in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was constructed between 1966 and 1972 by the Melbourne Harbor Trust, leading off the north bank of the Yarra River, to alleviate congestion in the port and provide Melbourne's first container shipping terminal.
Icehouse
Ice rink
The Icehouse is an Australian ice sports and entertainment centre, located in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Docklands and Inner south.
Docklands
Suburb
Docklands is an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, Australia, located directly to the western end of the Melbourne central business district between the neighboring suburbs of West Melbourne to the north/northwest, and South Wharf, South Melbourne and Port Melbourne to the south/southwest.
Inner south
Melbourne's inner south contains a number of suburbs and places worthy of a visit. The landscape varies from industrial ports to glitzy waterfront localities.CBD
The central business district of Melbourne is the city's cultural, entertainment and financial heart. Locally called the CBD, or simply "the City", it is where most international and interstate visitors spend the bulk of their time.Appleton Dock
- Type: Dock
- Category: transportation
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-37.81698° or 37° 49′ 1″ south
Longitude
144.92254° or 144° 55′ 21″ east
Open location code
4RJ65WMF+62
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dock
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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