Jack’s Magazine

The Jack's Magazine, also known as the Saltwater River Gunpowder Magazine, is a gunpowder magazine located on the western banks of the Maribyrnong River, off La Scala Avenue, in Maribyrnong, an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia.

Type: Military installation
Description: gunpowder magazine in Victoria, Australia
Address: 12 Van Ness Avenue

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pipemakers Park and Highpoint Shopping Centre.

Pipemakers Park

Park

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

The Pipemakers Park is an 8-hectare urban park located in Maribyrnong, an inner western suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. The park is situated on the western bank of the Maribyrnong River, near the Highpoint Shopping Centre. Pipemakers Park is situated 640 metres north of Jack’s Magazine.

Highpoint Shopping Centre

Shopping center

Highpoint Shopping Centre is a shopping centre located in Maribyrnong, in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Highpoint is Victoria's third largest shopping centre and the fifth largest in Australia, with an annual turnover of $778 million and over 15 million shoppers visiting each year. Highpoint Shopping Centre is situated 1 km northwest of Jack’s Magazine.

Maribyrnong College

School

Photo: Joyceclintonphillip, Public domain.

Maribyrnong College, also known as Maribyrnong Secondary College, and formerly known as Maribyrnong High School, is a government-funded secondary day school that specialises in sports, located in Maribyrnong in the inner western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Maribyrnong College is situated 660 metres northwest of Jack’s Magazine.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Docklands and Inner north.

Docklands

Suburb

Photo: Massimo Telò, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Docklands is an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, Australia, located directly to the western end of the Melbourne central business district between the neighboring suburbs of West Melbourne to the north/northwest, and South Wharf, South Melbourne and Port Melbourne to the south/southwest. Docklands is situated 6 km southeast of Jack’s Magazine.

Inner north

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.

Melbourne's inner north is a vibrant and diverse area, home to a number of cultural and social icons of Melbourne. It is famed for the popular Lygon Street Italian district, while next door lies the University of Melbourne, the best university in Australia by many rankings.

Little Italy

Neighborhood

Photo: Sgroey, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Little Italy in Victoria, Australia, is a Little Italy cultural precinct of the Italian community of Melbourne. It is situated along Lygon Street in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Carlton. Little Italy is situated 7 km east of Jack’s Magazine.

Jack’s Magazine

Location: City of Maribyrnong, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-37.78215° or 37° 46′ 56″ south

Longitude

144.89492° or 144° 53′ 42″ east

Open location code

4RJ66V9V+4X

OpenStreetMap ID

way 485985758

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=military

OpenStreetMap feature

military=danger_area

Wikidata ID

Q6118141

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