Kalorama, Victoria

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Kalorama
Melbourne, Victoria

Population:

1302 (2001 census)

Postcode:

3766

Area:

3.2 km²

Property Value:

AUD $322,500 ^[1]

Location:

42 km from Melbourne
11 km from Lilydale

LGA:

Shire of Yarra Ranges

State District:

Monbulk

Federal Division:

Casey

Suburbs around Kalorama
Montrose	Mount Evelyn	Mount Evelyn
Mount Dandenong	Kalorama	Silvan
Mount Dandenong	Dandenong Ranges	Silvan

Kalorama (from the Greek for 'beautiful view') is a suburb in the northern Dandenong Ranges, 42 km to the east of Melbourne, the capital city of the state of Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges.

The area, which is renowned for its beauty, boasts a famous lookout point ("Five Ways"), the Silvandale general store and tea-rooms which boasted the best Devonshire teas in the region prior to 2004, the Silvan Dam (which services the people of Melbourne), the National Rhododendron Gardens, the R.J. Hamer Forest Arboretum, and Olinda Falls.

The forests surrounding Kalorama contain amongst the tallest flowering Eucalyptus regnans trees in the world. (Mountain Ash is the tallest flowering plant in the world.) The forests are also the habitat of the Lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae).

The area has featured in the work of many Australian artists, including Arthur Streeton.