Healesville, Victoria
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| Healesville Victoria |
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 Location of Healesville in Victoria (red) |
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| Population: | 7133 (2001 census) | ||||||
| Established: | 1864 | ||||||
| Postcode: | 3777 | ||||||
| Elevation: | 199 m | ||||||
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| LGA: | Shire of Yarra Ranges | ||||||
| State District: | Seymour | ||||||
| Federal Division: | McEwen | ||||||
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Healesville is a town located to the northeast of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is 60 km by road from central Melbourne and about 22 km north-east of Lilydale, considered to be the boundary of greater Melbourne. It is situated on the Watts river, a tributary of the Yarra River. It is in the local government area of the Shire of Yarra Ranges.
The creation of a railway to the more distant Gippsland and Yarra Valley goldfields in the 1860s resulted in a settlement forming on the Watts river and its survey as a town in 1864. It was named after Richard Heales, the Premier of Victoria from 1860-1861.
Healesville is well known for the Healesville Sanctuary - a nature park with hundreds of native Australian animals displayed in a semi-open natural setting and an active platypus breeding program.
Schools in Healesville include the 125 year-old Healesville Primary School, St Bridgets Catholic primary school, the Healesville High School, and Worawa College, an Aboriginal school where many famous footballers have been educated. Much of what is now Healesville lies on the ancestral land of the Wurundjeri people, and aboriginal missions have been there in the past.
Swinburne TAFE has a campus in Healesville.
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| Suburbs of the Shire of Yarra Ranges | |
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Badger Creek | Belgrave | Belgrave Heights | Belgrave South | Chirnside Park | Chum Creek | Coldstream | Dixons Creek | Don Valley | Ferny Creek | Gruyere | Healesville | Kallista | Kalorama | Kilsyth | Launching Place | Lilydale | Macclesfield | Menzies Creek | Millgrove | Monbulk | Montrose | Mooroolbark | Mount Dandenong | Mount Evelyn | Narre Warren East | Olinda | Sassafras | Selby | Seville | Seville East | Sherbrooke | Silvan | Tarrawarra | Tecoma | The Patch | Tremont | Upwey | Wandin East | Wandin North | Warburton | Warburton East | Wesburn | Woori Yallock | Yarra Glen | Yarra Junction | Yellingbo | Yering |
