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Rowville

Rowville is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 27 km (17 mi) south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Knox local government area.

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The place

Rowville is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 27 km (17 mi) south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Knox local government area. Primarily residential, it is one of the largest suburbs south-east of Melbourne, recording a population of 33,571 at the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rowville

4 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
    Churchill National Park

    The Churchill National Park is a national park located in the Greater Melbourne region of Victoria, Australia. The 271-hectare national park is situated 31 kilometres southeast of Melbourne adjacent to the suburb of Lysterfield South, which lies between Rowville and Endeavour Hills in the far north of the City of Casey.

    3.2 km · national park in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Waverley Park

    Waverley Park is an Australian rules football oval and former large-scale stadium located in the south-east Melbourne suburb of Mulgrave. The first venue to be designed and built specifically for Australian rules football, it served as a neutral stadium for Victorian-based Victorian Football League/Australian Football League clubs upon its opening in 1970.

    3.8 km · park in Mulgrave, Victoria · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Caribbean Gardens

    Caribbean Gardens was a 100-acre market, gardens and amusement park located in the outer eastern suburb of Scoresby in Melbourne, Australia, on the north/west side of Caribbean Lake, a large 1.2 km -long artificial lake along the northern bank of Corhanwarrabul Creek, a major tributary of Dandenong Creek. Caribbean Gardens and Market operated from 1965 when it started with water ski shows and a handful of traders selling wares from their car boots.

    3.2 km · Australian retail market · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Rowville Secondary College

    Rowville Secondary College is a co-educational, public high school, located in Rowville, Victoria, Australia. It is divided into two campuses, the East and the West.

    1.7 km · public state secondary college in Rowville, 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 Rowville

Airports
Melbourne (MEL), 45 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 68 km
  • Melbourne → Rowville
    27 km · quickest by road, 43 min · A$3.5–5
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Rowville
    22 km · quickest by road, 41 min · A$3–4
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Rowville
    578 km · quickest by air, 5h 54m · A$250–360
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Rowville

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 Rowville. 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

    621 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

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

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,599 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,030 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,237 km

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Around it

Next door to Rowville

Rowville is 27 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.