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Melbourne


Melbourne is the 2nd largest city in Australia, with a metropilitan area population of comfortably over 3.7 million. The city, although sometimes referred to as " Australia's sporting and cultural capital", is in fact the state capital of the state of Victoria.

The city was first established in 1836, within half a century had grown into one of the largest cities of the British Empire. The city is named after British Prime Minister William Lamb 2nd Viscount Melbourne, whose title comes from the village of Melbourne in Derbyshire in UK, where he resided.

Central Business District, Melbourne, Australia

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Container Ships, Melbourne Docks, Melbourne, Australia
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Artist: Peter Hendrie.
Container Ships, Melbourne Docks, Melbourne, Australia

 
 
City Skyline From Williamstown, Melbourne, Australia
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City Skyline From Williamstown, Melbourne, Australia

 
 
St Kilda Pier at Sunset, Melbourne, Australia
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St Kilda Pier at Sunset, Melbourne, Australia

 
 
St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Taxi Driving Past Federation Square, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Flinders Street Station at Night, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Flinders Street Station at Night, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

 
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Streetwise Melbourne Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Melbourne, Australia - Folding pocket size travel map

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Streetwise Melbourne Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Melbourne, Australia - Folding pocket size travel map

This map covers the following area:
Main Melbourne Map 1:13,000

Some of the sites featured on this map are:
Brunswick Shopping Centre
Queen Victoria Market
Melbourne Zoo
Cook’s Cottage
Crown
Entertainment Complex
National Gallery of Victoria
Old Melbourne Gaol
Polly Woodside Maritime Museum
Royal Botanic Gardens
Melbourne Concert Hall and Performing Arts Museum
La Trobe’s Cottage
Victorian Arts Center

Melbourne, straddling the Yarra River, is a cultivated and conservative city which prides itself on being the active outdoor sports capital of Australia.

The central business district has undergone a revitalization which has brought with it new restaurants, boutiques, and gentrified waterside socializing venues for hipsters. Melbourne is famous for its festivals. You name it, they have a festival for it. The Grand Prix Formula One season usually opens with its first race in Melbourne.

It’s a great walking city and equipped with a STREETWISE® map of Melbourne you’ll be able to see all of the centre city sites and still find your hotel at the end of the day.

The main map of Melbourne covers the central city in detail and contains all important sites, architecture, hotels and parks.

Our pocket size map of Melbourne is laminated for durability and accordion folding for effortless use. The STREETWISE® Melbourne map is one of many detailed and easy-to-read city street maps designed and published by STREETWISE®. Buy your STREETWISE® Melbourne map today and you too can navigate Melbourne, Australia like a native. For a larger selection of our detailed travel maps simply type STREETWISE MAPS into the Amazon search bar.

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Area Maps: Greater Melbourne 1:150,000

City Maps: Central Melbourne 1:10,000; Inner Suburbs 1:35,000

Melbourne Travel Map 1st Edition (Australia Regional Maps)

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Insight Guides Melbourne

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A revolutionary new travel guide from Insight Guides, the pioneers of the illustrated guidebook. Packed with expanded editorial coverage, a bounty of practical information and fresh, exciting photography, graphics and mapping, the next generation of Insight Guides sets the new standard by which travel guides will be judged.

Frommer's Melbourne Day by Day (Frommer's Day by Day - Pocket)

By Lee Mylne

Frommers
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Melbourne Day by Day is the perfect answer for travellers who want to know the best places to visit and the best way to see the city. This attractively priced, four-colour guide offers dozens of itineraries that show you how to see the best of Melbourne in a short time -- with bulleted maps that lead the way from sight to sight. Featuring a full range of thematic and neighbourhood tours, plus dining, accommodation, shopping, nightlife, and practical visitor info, Melbourne Day by Day is the only guide that helps travellers organise their time to get the most out of a trip. Inside this book you'll find:
  • Full color throughout with hundreds of photos and dozens of maps
  • Sample one- to three-day itineraries that include listening to jazz in a cosmopolitan city laneway, touring the Melbourne Cricket Ground and Sports Museum, enjoying the view from St Kilda Pier, eating pasta on Lygon Street, driving the spectacular Great Ocean Road and more.
  • Star ratings for all hotels, restaurants and attractions clue readers in on great finds and values
  • Tear-resistant foldout map in a handy, reclosable plastic wallet
  • Foldout front cover, with at-a-glance maps and quick-reference info 

The Rough Guide to Melbourne (Rough Guide. Melbourne)

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Rough Guides
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"The Rough Guide to Melbourne" is the ultimate travel guide with clear maps and detailed coverage of all the best attractions Melbourne has to offer. Discover Melbourne's coolest bars and the hippest Melbourne hotels to the immense changes to the fabric of the city itself. Packed with detailed, practical advice on what to see and do in Melbourne, get the lowdown on Melbourne's renowned live music and club scenes and whet your appetite for its restaurants with a full-colour insert on its eclectic multicultural cuisine for all budgets. Features of this title include detailed coverage on the lively Melbourne city centre and dynamic outer suburbs; the cafes of Fitzroy, Prahran and South Yarra shopping, and the beaches of St Kilda to wine tasting tours of the Yarra Valley and road trips along the magnificent Great Ocean Road. You'll find authoritative background on Melbourne's history, film and books. Explore all corners of Australia's fastest growing city, with the clearest Melbourne maps, street plans and full-colour tram and train maps of any guide. Make the most of your holiday with "The Rough Guide to Melbourne".

Wallpaper City Guide: Melbourne (Wallpaper City Guides)

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WALLPAPER* CITY GUIDES not only suggest where to stay, eat, and drink, but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see, whether he or she has a week or just 24 hours in the city. The guides feature up-and-coming areas, landmark buildings in an 'Architour', design centers, and a selection of the best shops to buy items unique to the particular city. WALLPAPER* CITY GUIDES present travelers with a fast-track ticket to the chosen location. The edited guides offer the best, the most exciting, and the most beautiful of the featured city. In addition to looking beautiful, the guides are expertly designed with function as a priority. They have tabbed sections so the tourist can easily find what he or she is looking for. Also included are color-coded city maps, rate and currency cards, and an easy navigational tool. They are the ultimate combination of form and function. Compiled by the well-traveled editorial team of Wallpaper* and by an extraordinary network of international correspondents, the guides are truly THE insider's guide to each featured city. The contributors to these guides have put their heads together to come up with fascinating, efficient guides that keeps the hip, urban traveler with his or her finger on the pulse. The City Guides are being published as Wallpaper* magazine celebrates its tenth anniversary. For the past decade, Wallpaper* has been the first to uncover and enticingly present the best in new design and urban travel spots across the globe. The City Guides are the perfect way to present a decade of experience in one precisely edited guide to each of the 50 cities represented.

Lonely Planet Melbourne (Lonely Planet Melbourne & Victoria)

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Go seaside in sultry St Kilda, with a stroll among fishermen on the pier and a beer at the iconic Espy
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