Ballarat East Fire Station
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.Photo: Peterdownunder, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Art Gallery of Ballarat and Ballarat.
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 1 km west of Ballarat East Fire Station.
Ballarat
Railway station
Ballarat railway station is a regional railway station located on the Ararat and Mildura railway lines. It serves the city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, and opened on 11 April 1862 as Ballarat West. Ballarat is situated 1 km northwest of Ballarat East Fire Station.
Ballarat Trades Hall
Public building
Photo: Peterdownunder, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ballarat Trades Hall is a public building, which is situated 1 km west of Ballarat East Fire Station.
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 5 km east of Ballarat East Fire Station.
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 9 km east of Ballarat East Fire Station.
Ballarat East Fire Station
- Type: Fire station
- Description: heritage-listed former fire station in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
- Location: City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-37.56375° or 37° 33′ 50″ southLongitude
143.86877° or 143° 52′ 8″ eastBranch
Ballarat EastOperator
Country Fire AuthorityOpen location code
4RJ5CVP9+GGOpenStreetMap ID
way 762797914OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=fire_stationWikidata ID
Q56202994
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