Ballaarat Observatory
Ballaarat Observatory is a museum in City of Ballarat, Victoria. Ballaarat Observatory is situated nearby to Jack Greville Park, as well as near the peak Sovereign Hill.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sovereign Hill and Ballarat East Fire Station.
Sovereign Hill
Museum
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Sovereign Hill is an open-air museum in Golden Point, a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Sovereign Hill depicts Ballarat's first ten years after the discovery of gold there in 1851 and has become a nationally acclaimed tourist attraction. Sovereign Hill is situated 430 metres east of Ballaarat Observatory.
Ballarat East Fire Station
Fire station
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The Ballarat East Fire Station, in Ballarat East, Victoria, Australia is the oldest continually operating fire station in the Southern Hemisphere. The tower was designed by local architect Henry Caselli and was built in 1864 by William Cowland, a builder and fire brigade volunteer. Ballarat East Fire Station is situated 2 km north of Ballaarat Observatory.
Dana Street Primary School
School
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Dana Street Primary School is situated 2 km north of Ballaarat Observatory.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ballarat and Warrenheip.
Ballarat
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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.
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 6 km east of Ballaarat Observatory.
Buninyong
Town
Buninyong is a town 11 km from Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. The town is on the Midland Highway, south of Ballarat on the road to Geelong. Buninyong was proclaimed a town on 27 June 1851 on the same day as Winchelsea, Portarlington, Longwood, Avenel, Cavendish, Euroa and Gisborne. Buninyong is situated 8 km south of Ballaarat Observatory.
Ballaarat Observatory
- Type: Museum
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- Location: City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-37.58038° or 37° 34′ 49″ southLongitude
143.8606° or 143° 51′ 38″ eastOpen location code
4RJ5CV96+R6OpenStreetMap ID
node 436208142OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museum
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