Inner east
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.Photo: Marcus Bichel Lindegaard, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Nicolás Boullosa, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: suburb with 10,400 residents
- Description: suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Also known as: “Fitzroy”, “Fitzroy, Victoria”, and “Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia”
- Neighbors: Inner north
Places of Interest
Highlights include Melbourne Cricket Ground and Cooks’ Cottage.
Melbourne Cricket Ground
Stadium
Photo: Flickerd, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Melbourne Cricket Ground, also known locally as the 'G', is a multi-purpose sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne, Australia. Founded and managed by the Melbourne Cricket Club, it is the largest stadium in the Southern Hemisphere, the eleventh-largest stadium globally and the second-largest cricket stadium by capacity.
Cooks’ Cottage
Photo: CloudSurfer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cooks' Cottage, also known as Captain Cook's Cottage, is located in the Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne, Australia. The cottage was constructed in 1755 in the English village of Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, by the parents of Captain James Cook, James and Grace Cook.
St Patrick’s Cathedral
Church
Photo: Donaldytong, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cathedral Basílica of Saint Patrick, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne and the seat of its archbishop, currently Peter Comensoli.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include CBD and Jolimont.
CBD
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
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.
Chinatown
Neighborhood
Photo: Sgroey, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chinatown is an ethnic enclave in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Centred at the eastern end of Little Bourke Street, it extends between the corners of Swanston and Spring streets, and consists of numerous laneways, alleys and arcades.
Inner east
- Categories: gazetted locality of Victoria and gay village
- Location: Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-37.8106° or 37° 48′ 38″ southLongitude
144.99155° or 144° 59′ 30″ eastPopulation
10,400Open location code
4RJ65XQR+QJWikidata ID
Q1421389
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Inner east” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فيتزوري”
- Catalan: “Fitzroy”
- Cebuano: “Fitzroy”
- Chinese: “斐茲洛伊區 (維多利亞省)”
- Chinese: “斐茲洛伊區”
- Chinese: “菲茨罗伊 (维多利亚州)”
- Chinese: “菲茨罗伊”
- Chinese: “菲茨羅伊 (維多利亞州)”
- Chinese: “菲茨羅伊”
- Danish: “Fitzroy”
- Finnish: “Fitzroy”
- French: “Fitzroy”
- German: “Fitzroy”
- Hebrew: “פיטזרוי, ויקטוריה”
- Hebrew: “פיטצרוי (ויקטוריה)”
- Hebrew: “פיטצרוי, ויקטוריה”
- Hebrew: “פיטצרוי”
- Irish: “Fitzroy”
- Italian: “Fitzroy”
- Japanese: “フィッツロイ”
- Northern Sami: “Fitzroy”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fitzroy”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fitzroy”
- Norwegian: “Fitzroy”
- Persian: “فیتزروی، ویکتوریا”
- Romanian: “Fitzroy, Victoria”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fitzroy, Bhictòria”
- Spanish: “Fitzroy (Victoria)”
- Spanish: “Fitzroy”
- Swedish: “Fitzroy, Victoria”
- Swedish: “Fitzroy”
- Turkish: “Fitzroy”
- Urdu: “فٹزروئے، وکٹوریہ”
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