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Burwood East

Burwood East is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located 17 km (11 mi) east of Melbourne's central business district, located within the City of Whitehorse local government area.

Burwood East
Burwood East · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Burwood East is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located 17 km (11 mi) east of Melbourne's central business district, located within the City of Whitehorse local government area. Burwood East recorded a population of 10,675 at the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Burwood East

6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Wobbies World

    Wobbies World was an amusement park which operated from about 1970 to the late 1990s in the Melbourne suburb of Nunawading, Australia.

    2.2 km · amusement park in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Blackburn Lake Sanctuary

    The Blackburn Lake Sanctuary is a 27-hectare bushland park located in Blackburn, an eastern suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Formally set aside as a park in 1965, the regenerated and remnant bushland surrounds a man-made lake that was created in 1889 by the damming of the Kooyongkoot Creek.

    3.1 km · park in Blackburn, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Box Hill Cemetery

    The Box Hill Cemetery is a cemetery located in Box Hill, an eastern suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. The 12.5-hectare site is known as the resting place of notable figures from Melbourne.

    3.5 km · cemetery in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Box Hill City Oval

    Box Hill City Oval is an Australian rules football and cricket venue located in the Melbourne suburb of Box Hill. It is the home of the Box Hill Hawks, which plays in the Victorian Football League and VFL Women's competitions, and the Box Hill Cricket Club, which plays in the Victorian Sub-District Cricket Association.

    3.9 km · Stadium in Box Hill, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Forest Hill Chase

    Forest Hill Chase (often called "The Chase" is a major regional shopping centre located in Forest Hill, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. It has approximately 200 shops across three levels and parking space for over 3400 cars.

    2.1 km · Shopping center in Forest Hill, Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Forest Hill College

    Forest Hill College is a co-educational state secondary college in Burwood East, Victoria, Australia. It was originally established in 1970 as Burwood Heights Secondary College, later re-opening as Forest Hill College in 1990.

    1.1 km · co-educational state secondary college in Burwood East, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Burwood East

Airports
Melbourne (MEL), 34 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 63 km
Stations
Laburnum, 3.6 km · Syndal, 2.7 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Burwood East
    12 km · quickest by road, 31 min · A$1.5–2
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Burwood East
    589 km · quickest by air, 5h 22m · A$220–330
  • Adelaide → Burwood East
    670 km · quickest by air, 5h 39m · A$240–350
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No local-transport research exists yet for Burwood East

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Burwood East. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    632 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    741 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,595 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,041 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,225 km

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Next door to Burwood East

Burwood East is 17 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.