Shipping Control Tower
Shipping Control Tower is a tower in Melbourne, Victoria. Access is restricted and requires permission. Shipping Control Tower is situated nearby to the museum Alma Doepel Restoration Project, as well as near Bolte Bridge.- Access is restricted and requires permission.
- Type: Tower
- Description: port tower in the Melbourne Docklands, Australia
- Also known as: “Old Port of Melbourne Control Tower”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Melbourne Southern Cross and Bolte Bridge.
Melbourne Southern Cross
Photo: Xb-70, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Melbourne's Southern Cross Station is not just the main station of Melbourne, but where the entire Victorian rail network comes together. It's at the western edge of Melbourne CBD, with plenty tram, suburban and regional connections, in addition to a coach terminal.
Bolte Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Crisco 1492, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Bolte Bridge is a large twin cantilever road bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The Bolte Bridge carries a total of eight lanes of traffic – four lanes northbound and four lanes southbound. Bolte Bridge is situated 160 metres west of Shipping Control Tower.
Docklands Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Joe.Bekker, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Docklands Stadium, known by naming rights sponsorship as Marvel Stadium, is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the suburb of Docklands in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Docklands Stadium is situated 1¼ km east of Shipping Control Tower.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Docklands and Inner south.
Docklands
Suburb
Photo: Massimo Telò, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Docklands is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, on the western end of the central business district. Docklands had a population of 15,495 at the 2021 census.
Inner south
Photo: Korkut Tas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Melbourne's inner south contains a number of suburbs and places worthy of a visit. The landscape varies from industrial ports to glitzy waterfront localities.
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.
Shipping Control Tower
- Categories: port tower and building
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-37.81891° or 37° 49′ 8″ southLongitude
144.93407° or 144° 56′ 3″ eastOpen location code
4RJ65WJM+CJOpenStreetMap ID
way 333805667OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=towerWikidata ID
Q139620064
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Satellite Map
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