Ballarat Wildlife Park
The Ballarat Wildlife Park is a zoo in Ballarat, Victoria. Opened in February 1985, it is privately owned by founder Greg Parker, and Julia Leonard and managed by Jared Mulholland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sovereign Hill and Art Gallery of Ballarat.
Sovereign Hill
Museum
Photo: Mike Switzerland, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 2½ km southwest of Ballarat Wildlife Park.
Art Gallery of Ballarat
Museum
Photo: Biatch, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Art Gallery of Ballarat is the oldest regional art gallery in Australia. It was established in 1884 as the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery by a company of interested citizens led by James Oddie. Art Gallery of Ballarat is situated 3 km west of Ballarat Wildlife Park.
Ballarat East Fire Station
Fire station
Photo: Peterdownunder, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 west of Ballarat Wildlife Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ballarat and Warrenheip.
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.
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 3 km east of Ballarat Wildlife Park.
Dunnstown
Village
Dunnstown is a town in Victoria, Australia. The town is located in the Shire of Moorabool, 108 kilometres west of the state capital, Melbourne on the flats below Mount Warrenheip and approximately 12 kilometres east of Ballarat. Dunnstown is situated 7 km east of Ballarat Wildlife Park.
Ballarat Wildlife Park
- Type: Zoo
- Description: zoo in Victoria, Australia
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- Location: City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-37.56933° or 37° 34′ 10″ southLongitude
143.89126° or 143° 53′ 29″ eastOpen location code
4RJ5CVJR+7GOpenStreetMap ID
way 127958218OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=zooWikidata ID
Q4851486
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to German—“Ballarat Wildlife Park” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “巴拉瑞特野生動物園”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جنينة بالارات للحياه البريه”
- French: “réserve animalière Ballarat”
- French: “Réserve animalière Ballarat”
- German: “Ballarat Wildlife Park”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Eureka Stockade and Toddlers‘ pool.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ballarat Wildlife Park”. Photo: Ricmik, CC BY-SA 3.0.