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Destination MELBOURNE Melbourne, often referred to as the sporting capital of Australia, hosts many major Australian sporting events including: the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival (including the 'race that stops the nation', the Melbourne Cup), the Australian Formula One Grand Prix, the Australian Tennis Open and the AFL Grand Final ...

DISCOVER MELBOURNE: Melbourne Aquarium, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Birrarung Marr, Federation Square, Fitzroy Gardens, Flinders Street Station, Luna Park, Melbourne Cricket Ground, Parliament House, Royal Exhibition Building, ... see all Destination Melbourne

BALLARAT Ballarat is one of the most significant Victorian era boomtowns in Australia. Gold was discovered near Ballarat in 1851 spawning the Victorian gold rush. The area of Ballarat was found to be a rich alluvial field where gold could easily be extracted, bringing with it rapid growth ...

BENDIGO Originally known as Bendigo's Valley, the city grew quickly out of the Victorian gold rush and became established as a major provincial hub and minor financial centre, being home to Australia's only provincially headquartered retail bank, the Bendigo Bank, and the Bendigo Stock Exchange ...

PHILLIP ISLAND Phillip Island is a tourist destination visited by 3.5 million people annually. The Penguin Parade at Phillip Island Nature Park, in which Little Penguins come ashore in groups, attracts visitors from all over the world. They come to see one of the few areas where this species of penguin can be seen ...

BELLS BEACH Bells Beach is a coastal locality of Victoria, Australia in Surf Coast Shire and an internationally famous surf beach, located 100 km south-west of Melbourne, on the Great Ocean Road near the towns of Torquay and Jan Juc. It is named after John Cavert Bell of the family that first took up a pastoral run here in the 1840s ...

BLUES TRAIN The Blues Train travels along 16 km of railway operated by the Bellarine Peninsula Railway, a steam-driven tourist railway located in Victoria, Australia, between the towns of Queenscliff and Drysdale, on the Bellarine Peninsula. It provides an evening entertainment experience of a variety of bands ...

EASTERN BEACH Eastern Beach is a popular swimming and recreation area in Geelong, Victoria on the shores of Corio Bay. Built during the 1930s in the Art Deco style, a shark proof swimming enclosure is provided, as well as a children's swimming pool, kiosk, and dressing room pavilion ...

GREAT OCEAN ROAD The Great Ocean Road is a 273 km stretch of road along the south-eastern coast of Australia between the Victorian cities of Torquay and Warrnambool. The road was constructed as a Memorial to those killed in the First World War. It is one of Australia's great scenic coastline drives ...

LAKE MOUNTAIN Lake Mountain is a cross-country ski resort in Victoria 90 km from Melbourne. It is the most popular ski resort in Australia in visitor numbers due to its proximity to the populous city of Melbourne, mainly from casual visitors. Lake Mountain Alpine Resort is surrounded by the Shire of Murrindindi ...

PUFFING BILLY The Puffing Billy Railway is a narrow gauge 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) gauge heritage railway in the Dandenong Ranges near Melbourne, Australia. The primary starting point, operations and administration centre, main refreshment room (also selling souvenirs) and ticket purchasing are located at Belgrave station ...

SOVEREIGN HILL Sovereign Hill is an open air museum in Ballarat, Victoria, that depicts Ballarat's first ten years after the discovery of gold there in 1851. It was officially opened in 1970. Set in the Australian 1850s, the complex is located on a 25-hectare site that is linked to the richest alluvial gold rush in the world ...

THE TWELVE APOSTLES The Twelve Apostles are a collection of natural limestone stacks standing just off shore in the Port Campbell National Park, on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia. Their proximity to one another has made the site a popular tourist attraction. Originally the site was called the Sow and Piglets ...

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