Port Melbourne is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is bordered by the shore of Hobsons Bay and the lower reaches of the Yarra River. Port Melbourne covers a large area which includes the distinct localities of Fishermans Bend, Garden City, Montague and Beacon Cove. Melbourne (pronounced ) is the second most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 3. ... Capital Melbourne Government Constitutional monarchy Governor David de Kretser Premier Steve Bracks (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 37  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $222,022 (2nd)  - Product per capita  $44,443/person (5th) Population (End of September 2006)  - Population  5,110,500 (2nd)  - Density  22. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Beacon_cove_beach_port_melbourne. ... 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... Australian postcodes have four digits; envelopes for posting from Australia reflect this. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... ISO 4217 Code AUD User(s) Australia, Kiribati, Nauru, Tuvalu, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island Inflation 3. ... km redirects here. ... Melbourne (pronounced ) is the second most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 3. ... Municipalities of Greater Melbourne City of Banyule City of Bayside City of Boroondara City of Brimbank Shire of Cardinia City of Casey City of Darebin City of Frankston City of Glen Eira City of Greater Dandenong City of Hobsons Bay City of Hume City of Kingston City of Knox City... Mayor/President Cr BOLITHO, Janet CEO Mr SPOKES, David Electoral Divisions WARDS (Alma, Albert Park, Blessington, Emerald Hill, Ormond, Sandridge, St Kilda) Councillors Cr RAY, Darren, Cr KLEPNER, Judith, Cr GROSS, Dick, Cr LOGAN, Peter, Cr CRIBBES, Janet, Cr BOLITHO, Janet, Cr SAIT, Karen. ... State Electoral District is a term used to refer to a voting area within Australian states. ... The Electoral district of Albert Park is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. ... The Australian House of Representatives is elected from 150 single-member districts called Divisions. ... Melbourne Ports is an Australian federal electoral division in the inner south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... This is a list of suburbs in the city of Melbourne, in the State of Victoria, Australia. ... Yarraville is an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... West Melbourne is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... The Melbourne Docklands is a new inner city suburb and Urban renewal project in Melbourne, Australia. ... Newport is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Southbank, across the Yarra from Melbourne City Southbank is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia in the state of Victoria. ... Albert Park is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in the City of Port Phillip. ... Melbourne (pronounced ) is the second most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 3. ... Capital Melbourne Government Constitutional monarchy Governor David de Kretser Premier Steve Bracks (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 37  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $222,022 (2nd)  - Product per capita  $44,443/person (5th) Population (End of September 2006)  - Population  5,110,500 (2nd)  - Density  22. ... The City of Hobsons Bay is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia. ... The Yarra River is a river in southern Victoria, Australia. ...

The area to the north of the Westgate Freeway is in the City of Melbourne. The area to the south is in the City of Port Phillip. Population 67,000 Area 33 km² Mayor Cr John So (Lord Mayor) Electoral Wards none Councillors John So, Gary Singer, Fraser Brindley, Peter Clarke, Carl Jetter, Catherine Ng, Brian Shanahan, Fiona Snedden, David Wilson Capital Melbourne Suburbs/Townships Carlton, Carlton North, Docklands, East Melbourne, Fishermans Bend, Flemington, Hotham Hill, Jolimont... Mayor/President Cr BOLITHO, Janet CEO Mr SPOKES, David Electoral Divisions WARDS (Alma, Albert Park, Blessington, Emerald Hill, Ormond, Sandridge, St Kilda) Councillors Cr RAY, Darren, Cr KLEPNER, Judith, Cr GROSS, Dick, Cr LOGAN, Peter, Cr CRIBBES, Janet, Cr BOLITHO, Janet, Cr SAIT, Karen. ...

Historically it was known as Sandridge and developed as the city's second port, linked to the nearby Melbourne CBD. The area has been subject to intense urban renewal over the past decade. As a result, Port Melbourne is a diverse and historic area, featuring industrial and port areas along the Yarra to open parklands, bayside beaches, exclusive apartments and Beach Road's restaurants and cafes. The suburb also forms a major transport link from east to west, home to one end of the West Gate Bridge. 1999 photograph looking northeast on Chicagos now demolished Cabrini-Green housing project, one of many urban renewal efforts. ... Beach Road near Raffles Hotel. ... The West Gate Bridge is a large cable-stayed bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...

History

The area known as Port Melbourne was first settled in 1839 by Wilbraham Liardet, who established a hotel, jetty, and mail service. It was initially known as Liardet's Beach, though soon took on the official name of Sandridge, and finally Port Melbourne in 1884. The area came into prominence during the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s. With an increasing amount of ships looking to berth, Sandridge became a thriving transport hub. To alleviate the high costs of shipping goods via small vessels up the Yarra River to Melbourne, Australia's first railway line was built in 1854, connecting Sandridge to Melbourne. This became known as the Port Melbourne Line, and was eventually converted to Melbourne tram route 109. The disused Sandridge Bridge takes its name from this historic railway line. The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria in Australia between approximately 1851 and the early 1860s. ... The Port Melbourne railway line was a suburban railway in Melbourne, Australia. ... Tram route 109 is a public transport service in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Sandridge Bridge from Southbank The Sandridge Bridge is a historic railway bridge over the Yarra River in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, about to be redeveloped in 2005 as a new pedestrian, cycle path and public space connecting a new Queensbridge Square at Southbank to the Flinders Walk on the north bank. ...

As a transport hub, Port Melbourne had numerous hotels. Early industries included a sugar refinery, soap and candle works, chemical works, rice and flour mills, gasworks, a distillery and a boot factory. Station Pier was a major place of arrival to the country for immigrants to Australia prior to the availability affordable air travel. Station Pier is a historic pier on Port Phillip Bay, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...

Port Melbourne Today

Today, Port Melbourne still serves as a transport hub for passenger and cargo vessels. Many luxury liners, naval vessels and ferries arrive at Station Pier including the daily ferry service, the Spirit of Tasmania, to Tasmania. Cargo traffic takes place further west, near the mouth of the Yarra River, principally at Webb Dock. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Spirit of Tasmania (first ship). ... Capital Hobart Government Constitutional monarchy Governor William Cox Premier Paul Lennon (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 5  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $16,114 (7th)  - Product per capita  $33,243/person (8th) Population (End of September 2006)  - Population  489,600 (6th)  - Density  7. ... The Yarra River is a river in southern Victoria, Australia. ...

As the relative importance of the port has declined, and as manufacturing industry has moved out of the inner city area, Port Melbourne has increasingly become a residential suburb. The area where Port Melbourne originally developed, around Station Pier and the currently derelict Princes Pier, has been redeveloped with a mixture of apartment complexes and medium-density housing, the best known of which is the Beacon Cove development. Station Pier is a historic pier on Port Phillip Bay, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Port Melbourne is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...

Houses in Port Melbourne range from single-fronted Victorian timber worker's cottages to new apartments and housing developments. Port Melbourne has undergone a major demographic shift in the past twenty years, from one of the cheapest and poorest suburbs in the city to one of the most expensive and wealthiest. Many large apartment developments in Port Melbourne occupy large blocks of land, taking over large factories and warehouses, such as HM@S project in Beach Street, ID Apartments in Pickles and Rouse Streets, Bayshore Apartments and Bayview Apartments in Bay Street. Each of these developments comprise multiple buildings, and many of the redevelopments have preserved the heritage buildings. The Port Melbourne population now combines significant numbers of wealthy people with those who live in the local public housing, and other "old Port" locals. The area has many residents whose families came from Greek in the 1950s, as well as more recent arrivals from Africa and Asia. His or Her Majestys Ship (HMS) is the title of any commissioned ship in the British Royal Navy, and refers to the King or Queen of the United Kingdom as appropriate at the time. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Cultural heritage (national heritage or just heritage) is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations. ... A local authority tower block in Cwmbrân, South Wales Public housing or project homes is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local. ... A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ... World map showing the location of Asia. ...

For many years Port Melbourne was a centre of Melbourne's criminal underworld, which operated smuggling syndicates on the docks. The old Ships Painters and Dockers Union was notoriously controlled by gangsters. The Waterside Workers Federation, on the other hand, was a stronghold of the Communist Party of Australia. Today the Maritime Union of Australia is still a strong presence in the area, though no longer controlled by gangsters or communists. In May 2002 the underworld figure Victor Peirce was shot dead in Bay St, Port Melbourne. The crime remains unsolved. Politically, Port Melbourne still votes very solidly for the Australian Labor Party, despite the influx of high-income residents. The Communist Party of Australia was founded in 1920 and dissolved in 1991. ... The Maritime Union of Australia covers waterside workers, seamen, port workers, professional divers, and office workers associated with Australian ports. ... Victor George Peirce (November 11, 1958 - May 1, 2002) was an infamous Australian criminal from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

Sport

The Port Melbourne Football Club, known as "the Borough" is one of Melbourne's oldest Australian rules football sides, and plays in the Victorian Football League. Another local team is the Port Melbourne Colts, which plays in the Western Suburbs League. The Port Melbourne Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Port Melbourne and currently playing in the Victorian Football League. ... High marking is a key skill and spectator attribute of Aussie Rules Precise field and goal kicking using the oval shaped ball is the key skill in Aussie Rules Football Australian rules football, also known as Australian football, Aussie rules, or simply football or footy is a code of football... For other uses, see VFL (disambiguation). ...

Gallery

The corner of Bay St and Beach Rd, Port Melbourne. The building at left is Morley's Coal Depot, built in 1872, now converted to offices Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x1200, 276 KB) Photo by User:Adam Carr, April 2006 I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...	The old Harper's Starch factory, now converted to apartments Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x1200, 327 KB) Photo by User:Adam Carr, April 2006 I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...	The jumble of architectural styles in Port Melbourne reflects the suburb's history Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x1200, 225 KB) Photo by User:Adam Carr, April 2006 I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...	The Spirit of Tasmania at Port Melbourne, with the West Gate Bridge visible in the background Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 230 KB) Summary Photo by User:Adam Carr, April 2006 Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...
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Localities within Port Melbourne

Port Melbourne features three distinctive localities:

Garden City

Garden City is a locality within Port Melbourne and the City of Port Phillip. It is a 1920s planned suburb similar to those built in Britain at the time. It was originally built as public housing but many of the houses have been sold to private owners. It comprises semi-attached double-storey houses arranged around a series of public open spaces in a distorted Beaux-Arts layout. A local authority tower block in Cwmbrân, South Wales Public housing or project homes is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local. ... ...

Beacon Cove

Beacon Cove is a locality within Port Melbourne and the City of Port Phillip. It comprises approximately 1100 dwellings in a mixture of low-rise medium density and high-rise housing with a small supermarket, some commercial space, a small number of cafes, restaurants and a gym. It was developed over the decade from 1996 by Australian developer Mirvac, following the collapse of the 'Sandridge City' scheme for a gated community featuring canalside housing. The site was formerly an industrial facility. Beacon Cove features a waterfront promenade, palm-lined boulevards and a layout that allows the retention of two operational shipping beacons. Most of the low-rise housing is arranged around a series of small parks, in a postmodern scaled-down Beaux-Arts plan similar in layout to nearby St Vincent Gardens in Albert Park. Along the foreshore is a series of 11-14 storey high-rise apartment towers with a small amount of very upmarket low-rise housing at the western end directly fronting Sandridge Beach. The layout re-routed Beach Street away from the foreshore and the apartments along the waterfront have direct access to the promenade. The development was completed in stages, working west from Princes Street, and this is reflected in the different styles of architecture. This sub-suburb is fashionable and expensive, although controversial amongst some members of the Port Melbourne community as it is of a completely different style to the surrounding areas, with upmarket 'McMansions' giving the area the name 'legoland' in the Port Melbourne community.^[3] This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... ... The picturesque Victorian era gardens at the centre of the square Detail of the main pavillion, Rochester Terrace Rochester Terrace St Vincent Gardens in the Melbourne suburb of Albert Park, is an Australian park of national significance. ... Albert Park is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in the City of Port Phillip. ...

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Fishermans Bend

Pier 35 marina Fishermans Bend.

Fishermans Bend is a locality within Port Melbourne and the City of Melbourne. It is positioned immediately to the east of the West Gate Bridge, on the south bank of the Yarra River, adjacent to the suburb of Port Melbourne and opposite Coode Island on the north shore of the Yarra River. Population 67,000 Area 33 km² Mayor Cr John So (Lord Mayor) Electoral Wards none Councillors John So, Gary Singer, Fraser Brindley, Peter Clarke, Carl Jetter, Catherine Ng, Brian Shanahan, Fiona Snedden, David Wilson Capital Melbourne Suburbs/Townships Carlton, Carlton North, Docklands, East Melbourne, Fishermans Bend, Flemington, Hotham Hill, Jolimont... The West Gate Bridge is a large cable-stayed bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... The Yarra River is a river in southern Victoria, Australia. ... Coode Island is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...

The name Fishermans Bend originally included the area now known as Garden City, which was renamed in 1929.

The site was an early location for Bay fishermen of European descent, from the 1850s. Some thirty families lived on the Bend, frequently finding additional work in the docks and cargo ships. Ballast was loaded onto ships returning to Europe. Habitation was rough shacks along the Bend, made from corrugated iron, flattened kerosene tins or wood. There were no roads, shops, or sewerage. Water was collected from hanging out sail canvases and stored in iron tanks or casks, and milk came from a nearby farm. Fishing of course continues on the Bay, but today only two fishing licences belong to descendants of these early pioneer settlers. The last remaining shack on the Bend was demolished in 1970, to make way for Webb Dock. The new Surf Life Saving Club headquarters stand on the site (Meiers 2006).

The suburb of Fishermans Bend also has a significant place in Australian aviation history, being the home of several prominent historical Australian aircraft design and manufacturing companies including the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, General Motors Holden, Smorgon Steel, Government Aircraft Factories, the Aeronautical Research Laboratory and regional facilities for Boeing. The Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation is the best known of the Australian aircraft manufacturers of the Word War II era and post war era. ... General Motors Corporation, also known as GM, is the worlds largest largest auto company by sales revenue as of the second quarter of 2007 [2] (ahead of Toyota Motor Corporation). ... This article is about the Australian car manufacturer. ... The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA, TYO: 7661 ) is a major aerospace and defense corporation, originally founded by William Boeing. ...

Fishermans Bend is a primarily industrial centre at the foot of the Westgate Bridge which is the headquarters for Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Holden Australia, Hawker de Havilland, GKN Aerospace Engineering Services, the Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Composite Structures, Kraft Foods Toyota Australia, port security and a campus of RMIT University. The West Gate Bridge, Melbourne The West Gate Bridge is a large cable-stayed bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... The Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) is a branch of the Australian Department of Defence which researches and develops technologies for use in the Australian Defence Industry. ... This article is about the Australian car manufacturer. ... Cooperative Research Centres are key bodies for Australian scientific research. ... Kraft Foods Inc. ... Toyota logo with tagline TMCA redirects here. ... The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (now officially known only as RMIT University), is a university in Melbourne, Australia. ...

It also has a marina known as Pier 35 and several container ship ports. Fishermans Bend has a single large reserve known as Westgate Park, a large natural wetlands. A small marina at Brixham, Devon, England. ... Container ship in Istanbul Container ships are cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size containers, in a technique called containerization. ...

Notes

• Allan Meiers. 2006. Fisher Folk of Fishermans Bend. Port Melbourne: Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society.

1. ((note|legoland)) The Age newspaper, 8/1/2003

External links

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