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.
- Where
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- -37.8334, 144.9803
Get the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 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 Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Shrine of Remembrance 0.7 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.
Melbourne Cricket Ground 1.5 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.
National Gallery of Victoria 1.6 km
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.
Eureka Tower 1.9 km
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.
Federation Square 2.0 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.
Flinders Street Station 2.1 km
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.
Royal Exhibition Building 3.3 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.
Melbourne Museum 3.4 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.
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Questions
Where is Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne?
Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne is in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Shrine of Remembrance (0.7 km), Melbourne Cricket Ground (1.5 km), National Gallery of Victoria (1.6 km).
How do I get the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne 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 Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne 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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