Flax Mill Swamp Wildlife Reserve (no hunting)

Flax Mill Swamp Wildlife Reserve (no hunting) is a nature reserve in City of Ballarat, Victoria. Flax Mill Swamp Wildlife Reserve (no hunting) is situated nearby to the suburb Lake Gardens, as well as near the locality West Shore Ferry Landing.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ballarat Botanical Gardens and Ballarat Tramway Museum.

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 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.

Wendouree

Shopping center

Photo: Wongm, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Wendouree is a large suburb on the north western rural-urban fringe of the city of Ballarat, in Victoria, Australia. It is the second most populated suburb in the City of Ballarat with a total of 10,376 inhabitants at the 2021 census.

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.

Flax Mill Swamp Wildlife Reserve (no hunting)

Type: Nature reserve
Also known as: “Flax Mill Swamp WR”
Category: recreation area
Location: City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-37.5382° or 37° 32′ 18″ south

Longitude

143.808° or 143° 48′ 29″ east

Inception

November 22nd, 1983

Operator

Parks Victoria

Open location code

4RJ5FR65+P6

OpenStreetMap ID

way 666623151

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Lake Gardens and West Shore Ferry Landing.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Flax Mill Swamp and Ballarat Golf Course.

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