Dights Falls

Dights Falls is a rapid and weir across the Yarra River, located in Abbotsford, Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. The weir is situated downstream of the Yarra's confluence with Merri Creek, south of where the Eastern Freeway crosses the creek.

Photo: Michaelschmatz, Public domain.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Victoria Park and Victoria Park railway station, Melbourne.

Victoria Park

Park

Photo: Rulesfan, Public domain.

Victoria Park is an Australian rules football venue in the Melbourne suburb of Abbotsford. It is the historical home ground of the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League, which played senior men's matches at the ground from 1892 until 1999 and retained the ground as an administrative and training base until 2004. Victoria Park is situated 410 metres west of Dights Falls.

Victoria Park railway station, Melbourne

Railway station

Photo: Thebusofdoom, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Victoria Park station is a railway station operated by Metro Trains Melbourne on the Mernda and Hurstbridge lines, both part of the Melbourne rail network. Victoria Park railway station, Melbourne is situated 620 metres west of Dights Falls.

Johnston Street Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Johnston Street Bridge is a concrete road bridge across the Yarra River between Abbotsford and Kew, inner-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Johnston Street Bridge is situated 490 metres southeast of Dights Falls.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Inner east and Westgarth.

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.

Westgarth

Neighborhood

Photo: Batterbu, Public domain.

Westgarth is a neighbourhood within the suburb of Northcote, about 4 or 5 kilometres north-east of Melbourne's central business district in Victoria, Australia.

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. Jolimont is situated 2½ km southwest of Dights Falls.

Dights Falls

Type: Waterfall
Description: weir and rapids in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Categories: tourism, tourist attraction, and body of water
Location: City of Yarra, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-37.79716° or 37° 47′ 50″ south

Longitude

145.00109° or 145° 0′ 4″ east

Operator

Parks Victoria

Open location code

4RJ76232+4C

OpenStreetMap ID

node 31435738

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=attraction

OpenStreetMap feature

waterway=waterfall

Wikidata ID

Q5275695

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to French—“Dights Falls” goes by many names.

Chinese: “戴茨瀑布”
French: “Dights Falls”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Dights Falls and Dights Falls Park.

Nearby Places

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