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20 unusual facts about Yarra River


2006 Commonwealth Games highlights

;Closing Ceremony: Both the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the Yarra River were again centrepieces for the ceremony.

Both the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the Yarra River were centrepieces for the ceremony, which included many fireworks, and other spectacle.

Chapel Street, Melbourne

Chapel Street is essentially straight and runs for over 4.13 kilometres along an approximate north-south alignment from the Yarra River in the north to Brighton Road in the south, traversing the south east suburbs of South Yarra, Prahran, Windsor, St Kilda and St Kilda East.

In the 1850s much of the area between Commercial Road and the Yarra River was formed of deep clay deposits which resulted in a number of brickmakers establishing businesses on both sides of Chapel Street.

Clara Southern

By 1908 she had established an artistic community of younger landscape painters at Warrandyte, a township on the Yarra about 30 kilometres from Melbourne.

Como House

The house and its 6.5 acres of landscaped area is located in the suburb of South Yarra, south of the Yarra River, approximately 6 Kilometers South East of the central business district.

Elizabeth Street, Melbourne

The Elizabeth Street drain runs from Carlton in the north to the Yarra River in the south, carrying stormwater from the inner northern suburbs and city centre.

Exhibition Street, Melbourne

Exhibition Street runs roughly north-south, perpendicular to the Yarra River.

Heide Circle

The Heide Circle was a loose grouping of Australian artists who lived and worked at "Heide", a former dairy farm on the Yarra River floodplain at Bulleen, a suburb of Melbourne, counting amongst their number many of Australia's best-known modernist painters.

HMAS Duntroon

On 23 October 1950, she was damaged by fire while berthed in the Yarra River.

HMAS Yarra

Four ships of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) have been named HMAS Yarra after the Yarra River in Victoria.

Hoddle Grid

It was planned to span a gently sloping valley between small hills (knolls) (Batman's Hill, Flagstaff Hill and Eastern Hill) and roughly parallel to the course of the Yarra River.

The grid's longest axis is oriented 70 degrees clockwise from true north, to align better with the course of the Yarra River.

Market Street, Melbourne

South of Flinders Street, the roadway continues across the Yarra River via Queens Bridge.

Mary Gilbert

The Gilberts were pioneer settlers who disembarked on the banks of the Yarra River and set up camp on 30 August 1835.

Rotary River Ride

The Rotary River Ride is a non-competitive bicycle ride held next to the Yarra River in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Spencer Street, Melbourne

To the north Spencer Street becomes Dynon Road, and to the south it Clarendon Street after crossing the Spencer Street Bridge over the Yarra River.

Transport Hotel

The space enjoys immediate frontage to the busy Swanston Street as well as panoramic views encompassing both the Yarra River Princes Bridge and Flinders Street Station.

United States Youth Cricket Association

This award in January 2011 came only days after Mike Young, the American fielding coach for the Australian national cricket team, had come out in public support for USYCA, modeling the organization's apparel at a photo shoot on the banks of the Yarra River in Melbourne, only hours before the Aussies were to take on the English in a One Day International match.

Victoria Street, Melbourne

It runs from its terminus at the intersection of Munster Terrace in North Melbourne until it reaches the Yarra River.


Carlo Catani

widening and improvement of the Yarra River upstream from Princes Bridge, Alexandra Avenue and the laying out and planting the Alexandra Gardens

Don Valley, Victoria

A well known farm on Don Valley is Haining Farm, a 65-hectare cattle and dairy farm with Jersey and Friesian cows and other farm animals, located at the entrance of Don River into the Yarra River.

George Ward Cole

In the following year he purchased land on the Yarra River, and constructed the well-known Cole's Wharf in Flinders Street West, where Hugh Childers acted as a tally-clerk on his first arrival in the colony.

Pecan Summer

The timeline of the opera moves from the Dreamtime; to July 2006, on the banks of the Yarra River near Federation Square in Melbourne; to 1939, on the banks of the Dhungala (Murray River) near the Cummeragunja Mission; to several months later in winter 1939; to Shepparton at an unspecified time; to Federation Square on 13 February 2008, the day of Kevin Rudd's apology.

Princes Bridge

Because of its position, Princes Bridge is often a focal point for celebratory events in Melbourne such as the Moomba Festival, New Years Eve and many celebrations taking place on the Yarra River where it flows through the city.

PTV Network Development Plan

Extension of the South Morang railway line to Fishermans Bend, with the future potential to extend the railway in a tunnel under the Yarra River to Newport railway station

Schooner Rebecca

John Helder Wedge, who was also a member of the Port Phillip Association, then sailed to Port Phillip on Rebecca to explore the country, landing at Indented Head and then sailing up the Yarra River, which he named.

Sophia Mundi Steiner School

The school is located in the Heritage listed St Marys building of the Abbotsford Convent artistic and historic precinct and overlooks a bend of the Yarra River and the Collingwood Children's Farm.

Sunday Reed

In 1934, the Reeds purchased a former dairy farm on the Yarra River at Bulleen, a suburb of Melbourne, which became known as Heide.

William Wedge Darke

Darke brought a wooden caravan from Sydney and set up camp with his family near Robert Russell's wood and daub hut on the south side of the Yarra River in what is now central Melbourne.