Places to visit in Victoria, Australia
23 places to visit in Victoria, Australia, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Budj Bim, Royal Exhibition Building, Eureka Tower and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your Victoria volume.
2 UNESCO World Heritage sites · 9 Famous places to visit · 12 Hidden gems
UNESCO World Heritage sites in Victoria (2)
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Budj Bim
A dormant volcano near Macarthur in south-western Victoria, also known as Mount Eccles, with a crater lake at its heart. Its lava flows shaped the land where the Gunditjmara people built stone channels and traps to farm eels, now a World Heritage site.
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Royal Exhibition Building
A domed exhibition hall built in 1879 to 1880 for the Melbourne International Exhibition, set in the Carlton Gardens. The first Parliament of Australia opened here in 1901, and it is one of the few great halls of the exhibition age still standing, now a World Heritage site.
Famous places to visit in Victoria (9)
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Eureka Tower
A 297 metre residential tower in Southbank, completed in 2006, its top floors capped with gold-plated glass. The Skydeck near the summit looks out over the whole city, and a glass box slides out from the building over the street below.
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Flinders Street Station
Melbourne's busiest railway station, a long yellow building with a green dome on the corner of Flinders and Swanston streets. The row of clocks over its main entrance has been the city's favourite meeting place for generations.
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Great Ocean Road
A 240 kilometre road along Victoria's south-west coast between Torquay and Allansford, built by returned soldiers between 1919 and 1932. It was dedicated to those killed in the First World War, making it the world's largest war memorial, and it leads to the Twelve Apostles.
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Melbourne Cricket Ground
The largest stadium in Australia, in Yarra Park, established by the Melbourne Cricket Club in 1853. It is the home of Test cricket's Boxing Day match and the AFL Grand Final, and it was the main stadium of the 1956 Olympics.
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National Gallery of Victoria
Australia's oldest and most visited art museum, founded in 1861 and housed on St Kilda Road behind a wall of running water. Inside, the Great Hall has a ceiling of stained glass that visitors lie on the floor to look up at.
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Phillip Island
An island about 125 kilometres south-east of Melbourne, named after Governor Arthur Phillip by the explorer George Bass in 1798. At dusk little penguins come ashore in their hundreds at Summerland Beach, and the island also has a motorcycle Grand Prix circuit.
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Puffing Billy Railway
A narrow gauge steam railway through the forested foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, one of the Victorian Railways' early 20th century lines. Passengers famously sit with their legs dangling out of the open carriage windows as it climbs over a timber trestle bridge.
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Shrine of Remembrance
A war memorial in Kings Domain on St Kilda Road, built to honour Victorians who served in the First World War and now remembering all Australians who have served. At 11 o'clock on 11 November a ray of sunlight falls through the roof onto the word Love on the Stone of Remembrance.
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Twelve Apostles
Limestone stacks standing in the surf off Port Campbell National Park, carved from the cliffs by the Southern Ocean. There were never really twelve, and the waves keep wearing them down, but at sunset from the clifftop lookout they glow orange.
Hidden gems in Victoria (12)
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Dandenong Ranges National Park
Tall mountain ash forest and fern gullies about 35 kilometres east of Melbourne. Its best known track is the 1000 Steps walk from Ferntree Gully, a steep climb on stone stairs that also serves as a memorial to the Kokoda Track.
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Federation Square
A public square built over railway lines opposite Flinders Street Station, with angular buildings clad in sandstone, zinc and glass. It holds the Ian Potter Centre for Australian art, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and the Koorie Heritage Trust.
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Grampians National Park
Sandstone ranges rising out of the western Victorian plains, called Gariwerd by the Jardwadjali people. The park holds many Aboriginal rock art sites, waterfalls such as MacKenzie Falls, and lookouts like the Pinnacle above Halls Gap.
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Healesville Sanctuary
A bushland sanctuary in the Yarra Ranges given over to Australian native animals, formally named after Sir Colin MacKenzie. It is one of only two places to have bred a platypus, and it helps keep alive the endangered helmeted honeyeater.
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Loch Ard Gorge
A narrow cove in Port Campbell National Park, a few minutes' drive west of the Twelve Apostles, with a small sandy beach enclosed by high limestone cliffs. It takes its name from the clipper Loch Ard, which was wrecked nearby in 1878.
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Melbourne Museum
A natural and cultural history museum in the Carlton Gardens, facing the Royal Exhibition Building. Among its collections are a living forest gallery, dinosaur skeletons and Phar Lap, the champion racehorse, mounted under glass.
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Melbourne Zoo
The oldest zoo in Australia, set within Royal Park in Parkville about 4 kilometres north of the city centre. It keeps thousands of animals of more than 240 species, from native wombats and platypus to elephants and gorillas.
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Queen Victoria Market
The largest open-air market in the Southern Hemisphere, more than seven hectares of sheds and halls at the edge of the city centre. Its meat and deli halls and fruit stalls have traded since the 19th century, and summer nights bring a food market.
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Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Botanic gardens beside the Yarra, just south of the city centre, with sweeping lawns, lakes and plant collections from around the world. They are the Melbourne half of Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, whose second site at Cranbourne is devoted to Australian plants.
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Sovereign Hill
An open-air museum in Ballarat that recreates the town's first ten years after gold was found there in 1851. Costumed people work the shops and smithies along its main street, and visitors can pan for gold in the creek.
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St Kilda Pier
A 300 metre pier reaching into Port Phillip Bay from the St Kilda foreshore, joined to a stone breakwater. A colony of little penguins lives among the breakwater rocks, and the walk to the old pavilion kiosk at the end looks back to the city towers.
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Wilsons Promontory
The southernmost point of the Australian mainland, a granite peninsula protected as a national park. Its beaches include Squeaky Beach, named for the sound its fine quartz sand makes underfoot, and wombats wander through the camping ground at Tidal River.
Collecting in Victoria
What are the best places to visit in Victoria?
LOQAH lists 23 places in Victoria. The best known include Budj Bim, Royal Exhibition Building, Eureka Tower, Flinders Street Station and Great Ocean Road. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in Victoria?
23, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in Victoria?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in Victoria before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose Victoria and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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