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Wantirna South

Wantirna South is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 25 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Knox local government area.

Wantirna South
Wantirna South · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Wantirna South is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 25 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Knox local government area. Wantirna South recorded a population of 20,754 at the 2021 census. It is a border suburb to the City of Whitehorse and the City of Monash.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wantirna South

7 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.

    1.7 km · temple of the LDS church · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    State Basketball Centre

    The State Basketball Centre is a sports arena located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, used primarily for basketball. The stadium features 18 courts, including one basketball show court with seating for 3,200.

    1.1 km · Sports arena in Melbourne, Victoria · 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.

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

    3.3 km · park in Wantirna, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Australian Jazz Museum

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

    2.9 km · music museum in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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 km · Australian retail market · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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.

    2.7 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 Wantirna South

Airports
Melbourne (MEL), 41 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 69 km
  • Melbourne → Wantirna South
    24 km · quickest by road, 47 min · A$3.5–5
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Wantirna South
    19 km · quickest by road, 45 min · A$3–4
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Wantirna South
    584 km · quickest by air, 5h 42m · A$240–350
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Wantirna 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 Wantirna 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

    627 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    748 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

    2,034 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,232 km

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Around it

Next door to Wantirna South

Wantirna South is 24 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Knoxfieldsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.4 km
  • Scoresbysuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia1.7 km