Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
The Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial was dedicated on Friday, 6 February 2004. It is located on the southern approaches to the Ballarat Botanical Gardens, on Wendouree Parade and adjacent to Lake Wendouree.Photo: Tortoise42, Public domain.
- Type: Memorial
- Description: war memorial in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
- Also known as: “Australian Ex Prisoners Of War Memorial”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ballarat Tramway Museum and Ballarat Botanical Gardens.
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Museum
Photo: Peterdownunder, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Ballarat Tramway Museum is an operating tramway museum, located in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The museum is run by volunteers and has a fleet of trams which operate on part of the original horse tramway around Lake Wendouree and the Botanical Gardens. Ballarat Tramway Museum is situated 220 metres northwest of Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial.
Ballarat Botanical Gardens
Garden
Photo: Biatch, Public domain.
The Ballarat Botanical Gardens Reserve, located on the western shore of picturesque Lake Wendouree, in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, covers an area of 40 hectares which is divided into three distinct zones. Ballarat Botanical Gardens is situated 570 metres north of Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial.
Loreto College
School
Loreto College, Ballarat is an independent Roman Catholic secondary day school for girls, located in central Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Loreto College is situated 440 metres southeast of Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ballarat and Miners Rest.
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.
Miners Rest
Suburb
Miners Rest is a suburb north of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia on the north-western rural-urban fringe of the city, 11 kilometres northwest of the Central Business District. Miners Rest is situated 8 km north of Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial.
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 10 km east of Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial.
Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
- Categories: war memorial and historic site
- Location: City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-37.55327° or 37° 33′ 12″ southLongitude
143.82148° or 143° 49′ 17″ eastOpen location code
4RJ5CRWC+MHOpenStreetMap ID
way 58697893OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialWikidata ID
Q4824119
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Uzbek—“Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ավստրալիացի նախկին ռազմագերիների հուշարձան”
- Russian: “Мемориал бывшим австралийским военнопленным”
- Ukrainian: “Меморіал колишнім австралійським військовополоненим”
- Uzbek: “Avstraliyalik sobiq harbiy asirlar yodgorligi”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include South Gardens Reserve and Ballarat Tramway Museum.
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