Fire Station No. 68
Fire Station No. 68 is a fire station in Victoria, Australia which is located on Ballarat - Carngham Road. Fire Station No. 68 is situated nearby to the fire station Fire Rescue Victoria, as well as near the police station Ballarat West Police Complex.- Type: Fire station
- Also known as: “Lucas Fire Station”
- Address: 89 Ballarat - Carngham Road, Winter Valley, VIC 3358
Places of Interest Nearby
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 Botanical Gardens is situated 3 km northeast of Fire Station No. 68.
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 2½ km northeast of Fire Station No. 68.
Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
Memorial
Photo: Tortoise42, Public domain.
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. Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial is situated 2½ km northeast of Fire Station No. 68.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ballarat and Haddon.
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.
Haddon
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Haddon is a township in the Golden Plains Shire, 12 km west of Ballarat. The population at the 2016 census was 1,194. 84.4% of people were born in Australia and 90.8% of people spoke only English at home. Haddon is situated 8 km west of Fire Station No. 68.
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 9 km north of Fire Station No. 68.
Fire Station No. 68
- Category: building
- Location: Victoria, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-37.56908° or 37° 34′ 9″ southLongitude
143.80022° or 143° 48′ 1″ eastInception
November 29th, 2018Operator
Fire Rescue VictoriaOpen location code
4RJ5CRJ2+93OpenStreetMap ID
way 827619179OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=fire_stationOpenStreetMap feature
building=yes
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