Dights Falls
Dights Falls is a rapid and weir on the Yarra River in Melbourne, Victoria, just downstream of the junction with the Merri Creek. At this point the river narrows and is constricted between 800,000-year-old volcanic, basaltic lava flow and a much older steep, silurian, sedimentary spur.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, part of the Melbourne rail network. It serves the north-eastern Melbourne suburb of Abbotsford in Victoria, Australia. Victoria Park railway station, Melbourne is situated 620 metres west of Dights Falls.
Johnston Street Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Johnston Street Bridge is a concrete road bridge crossing the Yarra River between the Melbourne suburbs of Abbotsford and Kew. The current bridge was constructed in 1954-56 by the Country Roads Board using a design employing cast-in-place reinforced-concrete curved T girders and an integral flat slab deck. 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
- Categories: tourism, tourist attraction, and body of water
- Location: City of Yarra, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-37.79716° or 37° 47′ 50″ southLongitude
145.00109° or 145° 0′ 4″ eastOperator
Parks VictoriaOpen location code
4RJ76232+4COpenStreetMap ID
node 31435738OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap feature
waterway=waterfallWikidata ID
Q5275695
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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.
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