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.
- Where
- Healesville, Victoria, Australia
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- -37.6822, 145.5316
Get the Healesville Sanctuary stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Healesville Sanctuary. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Victoria volume with your photos and a note.
Near Healesville Sanctuary
Dandenong Ranges National Park 19 km
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.
Puffing Billy Railway 29 km
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.
Melbourne Cricket Ground 51 km
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.
Melbourne Museum 51 km
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.
Royal Exhibition Building 51 km
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.
Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne 51 km
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.
Federation Square 52 km
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.
Shrine of Remembrance 52 km
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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Questions
Where is Healesville Sanctuary?
Healesville Sanctuary is in Healesville, Victoria, Australia. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Dandenong Ranges National Park (19 km), Puffing Billy Railway (29 km), Melbourne Cricket Ground (51 km).
How do I get the Healesville Sanctuary stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Healesville Sanctuary and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Victoria volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Healesville Sanctuary before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Victoria volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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