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Glen Waverley

Glen Waverley is an eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located 19 km (12 mi) southeast of the Melbourne central business district.

Glen Waverley
Glen Waverley · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Glen Waverley is an eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located 19 km (12 mi) southeast of the Melbourne central business district. It is the council seat of the City of Monash local government area and a prominent suburban commercial district, as well as a local transport hub as the interchange between the Glen Waverley line terminus and the upcoming SRL East ring line. Glen Waverley recorded a population of 42,642 at the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Glen Waverley

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
    Monash University

    Monash University is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named after World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958.

    3.9 km · public university based in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Wobbies World

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

    3.9 km · amusement park in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Jells Park

    Jells Park is a 127-hectare metropolitan park in Wheelers Hill, a southeastern suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Opened in April 1976, the park is named after Joseph Jell, a cattle grazier who worked in the area in the mid-to-late 19th century.

    3.9 km · public park in Wheelers Hill, a suburb to the south-east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    3.5 km · co-educational state secondary college in Burwood East, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Wheelers Hill Secondary College

    Wheelers Hill Secondary College is a coeducational state school in the Melbourne suburb of Wheelers Hill, Victoria, Australia. School number 8474.

    3.7 km · public school in Wheelers Hill, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Central Reserve

    Central Reserve is a multi-sports complex in the Melbourne suburb of Glen Waverley. It includes two ovals which host Australian rules football and cricket matches.

    1.3 km · cricket and Australian rules football ground in the suburb of Glen Waverley, in the south-east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Glen Waverley

Airports
Melbourne (MEL), 37 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 64 km
Stations
Syndal, 1.4 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Glen Waverley
    14 km · quickest by road, 33 min · A$2–3
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Glen Waverley
    586 km · quickest by air, 5h 31m · A$230–340
  • Adelaide → Glen Waverley
    673 km · quickest by air, 5h 48m · A$240–360
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Glen Waverley

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 Glen Waverley. 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

    629 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

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

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,597 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,038 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,229 km

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Around it

Next door to Glen Waverley

Glen Waverley is 19 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.