Yan Yean
Yan Yean is a locality in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 34 km north-east of Melbourne's central business district, located within the City of Whittlesea and Shire of Nillumbik local government areas.
Yan Yean is a locality in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 34 km north-east of Melbourne's central business district, located within the City of Whittlesea and Shire of Nillumbik local government areas. Yan Yean recorded a population of 246 at the 2021 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Yan Yean
3 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.
- 01Yan Yean Reservoir
The Yan Yean Reservoir is a reservoir created by the Yan Yean Dam, an embankment dam across the Plenty River and supplemented by off-stream storage that is part of the Yan Yean Water Supply System, located within the eponymous locality of Yan Yean, near Whittlesea, Victoria, Australia. Completed in 1857 for the supply of potable water, it is the oldest water supply for Melbourne, located 30 kilometres to the south, and, upon completion, was the largest artificial reservoir in the world.
3.2 km · lake in Australia · Wikipedia - 02Bear's Castle
Bear's Castle is a small faux castle constructed in approx 1846 in Yan Yean, Victoria, Australia.
4.3 km · faux castle in Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia - 03Funfields
Funfields is a 15.7-hectare theme park located in the suburban fringe town of Whittlesea, approximately 40 kilometres north of Melbourne, Australia. It is one of four major theme parks in Victoria.
5.6 km · Theme Park located near Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Yan Yean
- Airports
- Melbourne (MEL), 26 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 77 km
- Stations
- Mernda Station, 3.2 km · Hawkstowe, 5.9 km · Yan Yean railway station, 200 m
- Geelong/Melbourne → Yan Yean34 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · A$5–7
- Hobart (Cambridge) → Yan Yean620 km · quickest by air, 5h 1m · A$220–320
- Adelaide → Yan Yean653 km · quickest by air, 5h 18m · A$230–340
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No local-transport research exists yet for Yan Yean
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 Yan Yean. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Yan Yean
Yan Yean is 30 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.