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Vermont South

Vermont South is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, 19 km east of its Central Business District.

Vermont South
Vermont South · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Vermont South is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, 19 km east of its Central Business District. It had a population of 11,954 at the 2021 census. The eastern boundary is Dandenong Creek, which flows from the Dandenong Ranges through to Port Phillip. The suburb was mostly developed in the late 1960s through till the mid-1970s after developers bought the orchards in the area. Vermont is derived from the French language meaning "green hill".

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Vermont South

8 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
    Melbourne Australia Temple

    The Melbourne Australia Temple is located in Wantirna South, Melbourne, Victoria and is the 90th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The intent to build the temple was announced on 30 October 1998, by the LDS Church's First Presidency.

    3.3 km · temple of the LDS church · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Koomba Park

    Koomba Park is one of the parks comprising the Dandenong Valley Parklands in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. It consists of 92 hectares of which 33 hectares are publicly accessible, and is bounded by Dandenong Creek, Boronia Road, EastLink, Mountain Highway and Burwood Highway in a clockwise direction.

    2.6 km · park in Wantirna, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Wobbies World

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

    1 km · amusement park in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Australian Jazz Museum

    The Australian Jazz Museum is a jazz museum located in Wantirna, Victoria, Australia.

    2.3 km · music museum in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    3.3 km · park in Blackburn, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    2.5 km · Shopping center in Forest Hill, Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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.

    1.9 km · co-educational state secondary college in Burwood East, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Melbourne School of Theology

    The Melbourne School of Theology is an evangelical Christian theological college with its main campus in Wantirna, an eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It offers undergraduate and post-graduate programs in biblical studies, pastoral studies, theology and related fields.

    2.5 km · formerly known as the Bible College of Victoria · 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 Vermont South

Airports
Melbourne (MEL), 36 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 66 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Vermont South
    15 km · quickest by road, 36 min · A$2–2.5
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Vermont South
    588 km · quickest by air, 5h 30m · A$230–340
  • Adelaide → Vermont South
    673 km · quickest by air, 5h 47m · A$240–360
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Vermont South

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 Vermont South. 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

    631 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

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

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,593 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,039 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,227 km

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

Around it

Next door to Vermont South

Vermont South is 20 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Blackburnsuburb of Melbourne, Australia4 km
  • Nunawadingsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.8 km
  • Blackburn Southsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.7 km
  • Glen Waverleysuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia1.9 km
  • Forest Hillsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia1.4 km
  • Mitchamsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.9 km