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Northcote

Northcote is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km (3.7 mi) north-east of the central business district, within the City of Darebin local government area.

Northcote
Northcote · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Northcote is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km (3.7 mi) north-east of the central business district, within the City of Darebin local government area. Northcote recorded a population of 25,276 at the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Northcote

10 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
    Islamic Museum of Australia

    The Islamic Museum of Australia is a community museum in Thornbury, Melbourne, Australia. It began as a not-for-profit foundation founded in May 2010 with the purpose of establishing the first Islamic museum in Australia.

    2.6 km · museum in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Albanian Mosque, Carlton North

    The Albanian Mosque, also known as the Albanian Australian Islamic Society Mosque and Carlton Mosque, is a mosque located in Carlton North, a suburb of inner Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The building contains a minaret, and community facilities.

    3 km · Albanian mosque in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Preston Mosque

    The Preston Mosque, officially the Umar bin Al-Khattab Mosque, is a mosque located in Preston, a suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. The mosque is run by the Islamic Society of Victoria Inc and, between 2007 and 2011, was the seat of the late Muslim cleric, Sheik Fehmi Naji El-Imam, who was appointed as Grand Mufti of Australia.

    3.7 km · mosque in Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Melbourne General Cemetery

    The Melbourne General Cemetery is a large necropolis located 3 km north of the city of Melbourne in the suburb of Carlton North. The cemetery is notably the resting place of five Prime Ministers of Australia, more than any other necropolis within Australia.

    3.5 km · cemetery in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Brunswick Street Oval

    The Brunswick Street Oval is an Australian rules football and cricket ground located within Edinburgh Gardens in the suburb of Fitzroy North, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is managed by the City of Yarra.

    2.5 km · Australian rules football and cricket ground · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Centre for Contemporary Photography

    The Centre for Contemporary Photography, in Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria, is a venue for the exhibition of contemporary photo-based arts, providing a context for the enjoyment, education, understanding and appraisal of contemporary practice.

    3.2 km · Photography museum in Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Monash University Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

    Monash University, Parkville campus is a campus of Monash University, located in Parkville, Victoria, Australia. It is home to the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

    3.8 km · pharmacy faculty of Monash University · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Carlton Recreation Ground

    Princes Park is an Australian rules football venue located inside the Princes Park precinct in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton North. Officially known as the Carlton Recreation Ground, it is a historic venue, having been Carlton Football Club's VFL/AFL home ground from 1897.

    3.6 km · stadium in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Kanes Bridge

    Kane's Bridge, also written as Kanes Bridge and previously known as Kane's Suspension Bridge, is a wooden suspension bridge located in Yarra Bend Park, Melbourne, Australia over the Yarra River, linking the inner-city suburbs of Fairfield and Kew. The bridge is for use exclusively by pedestrians, with cyclists required to dismount before entering the bridge.

    3.2 km · bridge in Boroondara City, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Yarra Bend Park

    The Yarra Bend Park is a 260-hectare metropolitan park located in Kew and Fairfield, inner east suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Situated 4 kilometres northeast of the city centre of Melbourne, the park is the largest area of remnant natural bushland in inner Melbourne.

    2.8 km · park in Melbourne, 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 Northcote

Airports
Melbourne (MEL), 18 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 55 km
Stations
Jewell, 3.6 km · Victoria Park, 3 km · Moreland, 3.8 km · Anstey, 3.6 km · Croxton, 900 m
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Northcote
    8 km · quickest by road, 25 min · A$1–1.5
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Northcote
    602 km · quickest by air, 4h 38m · A$190–290
  • Adelaide → Northcote
    654 km · quickest by air, 4h 55m · A$210–310
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Northcote

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 Northcote. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextMelbourne is fairly centrally located on the coast of Victoria, and there are many natural and man-made attractions that make for a nice day trip.

From Wikivoyage: Melbourne, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    644 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

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

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,594 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,057 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,210 km

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Around it

Next door to Northcote

Northcote is 6 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Brunswicksuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.3 km
  • Clifton Hillsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia1.9 km
  • Fairfieldsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.4 km
  • Abbotsfordsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.4 km