Kalang Road, Melbourne
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Kalang Road is one of the tree-lined streets of Eastern Melbourne, located in the neighbourhood of Hartwell and the suburb of Camberwell. Kalang Road runs to Hartwell railway station, which is positioned on the Alamein line, which in turn runs off the Belgrave and Lilydale railway lines departing from the Camberwell railway station.
Kalang is taken from the dialect of the local Aboriginal people, and means "place of trees." Kalang Road intersects Glencairn Avenue, Wattle Valley Road and terminates at the intersection of Glyndon Road and Fordham Avenue, opposite, with a medium-sized park in the middle, Hartwell railway station.
In December 1985, during that year's Australian Open, former World No. 1 Tennis player, Mats Wilander, winner of 7 Grand Slam titles from 1982-88, staged an impromptu tennis clinic for the local players. He was very well received. These Kalang Road tennis courts were subsequently knocked down, in 1991, to make way for high-density units.
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