Convent Corner

Convent Corner is a locality in City of Ballarat, Victoria. Convent Corner is situated nearby to the locality The Spit, as well as near West Shore Ferry Landing.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial and Ballarat Tramway Museum.

Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

Memorial

Photo: Tortoise42, Public domain.

The Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial was dedicated on Friday, 6 February 2004. It is located on the southern approaches to the Ballarat Botanical Gardens, on Wendouree Parade and adjacent to Lake Wendouree.

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.

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.

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 Convent Corner.

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 Convent Corner.

Convent Corner

Type: Locality
Location: City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-37.55333° or 37° 33′ 12″ south

Longitude

143.82328° or 143° 49′ 24″ east

Open location code

4RJ5CRWF+M8

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1621652830

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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Localities in the Area

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