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Reservoir

A reservoir is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.

Reservoir
Reservoir · Wikimedia Commons
The place

A reservoir is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Reservoir

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
    La Trobe University

    La Trobe University is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its main campus is located in the suburb of Bundoora.

    4.3 km · university in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    4.5 km · museum in Melbourne, 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.

    2.6 km · mosque in Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Edwardes Lake

    Edwardes Lake is a recreational waterbody in the Melbourne suburb of Reservoir, Victoria, Australia.

    800 m · lake in Darebin City, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Thomastown Mosque

    The Thomastown Mosque, is a mosque located in Thomastown, a northern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The mosque is situated opposite the railway line and Thomastown railway station.

    4.1 km · Turkish Islamic mosque in Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Coburg City Oval

    Coburg City Oval is an Australian rules football and cricket venue located in the Melbourne suburb of Coburg. It is home to the Coburg Football Club and the Coburg Cricket Club.

    4.1 km · stadium in Coburg, Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Truby King Baby Health Centre

    The Truby King Baby Health Centre is a child health care centre, located on City of Merri-bek Council property on Elm Grove, in Coburg, an inner northern suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. The facilities in the centre are shared with the local brass band.

    3.8 km · heritage-listed child health care centre in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St James Old Cathedral

    St James Old Cathedral, an Anglican church, is the oldest church in Melbourne, Australia, albeit not on its original site. It is one of the relatively few buildings in the central city which predate the Victorian gold rush of 1851.

    5.6 km · church in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Holy Trinity Anglican Church Complex

    The Holy Trinity Anglican Church is an Anglican parish church located at 520 Sydney Road, in Coburg, an inner northern suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Built in stages between 1848 and 1883, the church was designed in the Gothic Revival style.

    3.8 km · Heritage-listed Anglican church and associated buildings in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Murray Road Bridge

    The Murray Road Bridge, also known as the Merri Creek Bridge, is an arch stone road bridge across the Merri Creek and its associated trail, constructed by Victorian convicts, that carries Murray Road, located in Coburg, an inner northern suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Built in 1871, the bridge was added to the Victorian Heritage Register on 19 September 1996 in recognition of its architectural, historic and scientific importance.

    2.9 km · heritage-listed bridge over the Merri Creek in Melbourne, 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.

Go there

Getting to Reservoir

Airports
Melbourne (MEL), 15 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 59 km
Stations
Croxton, 5.3 km · Gowrie, 4 km · Ruthven, 1.3 km · Moreland, 5.4 km · Northcote, 5.9 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Reservoir
    14 km · quickest by road, 38 min · A$2–2.5
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Reservoir
    608 km · quickest by air, 4h 30m · A$190–280
  • Adelaide → Reservoir
    652 km · quickest by air, 4h 47m · A$200–300
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Reservoir

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 Reservoir. 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

    650 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

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

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,588 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,060 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,205 km

If you know how people move in Reservoir – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Reservoir

Reservoir is 11 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Coburgsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia4.3 km
  • Prestonsuburb of Melbourne, Australia3 km
  • Thornburysuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.7 km
  • Thomastownsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia4.1 km
  • Fawknersuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3 km
  • Pascoe Valesuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia5.2 km