Victoria , Australia , Site to See, Attractions and Things To Do

  • Melbourne Aquarium: The Melbourne Aquarium is located in the heart of the city of Melbourne, on the banks of the Yarra River. Contact: Cnr Queenswharf Rd & King St, Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Australia Phone: +61 3 9620 0999 Admin: +61 3 9923 5999 Fax: +61 3 9620 0222

  • Melbourne Australia: Melbourne's leading information destination for Business & Travellers plus direct links to tourism, entertainment, hospitality and industry operators.

  • Mount Buller: One of Australia's best ski areas full of resorts to make your visit comfortable. The snowfields are vast and varied from gentle beginner slopes to spectacular double black diamond chutes

  • Mount Hotham: Mount Hotham is Australia's highest ski resort and offers outstanding ski and snowboarding terrain, first class resort facilities, and scenery that will take your breath away.

  • Murray River Region: The River Murray flows through the centre of lower Southern Australia, breathing life into the land around it - it is part of one of the largest river systems in the world. There is so much for the visitor to see and do. The romantic history of the river, is recaptured in museums, and restored paddle steamers. There are all water sports imaginable, from water skiing to canoeing.

  • Museum of Victoria: Museum Victoria is Victoria's State Museum, which cares for the State's vast and priceless natural science, Indigenous, social history and science and technology collections. The overall size of these collections is estimated at approximately 16 million individual items. Based in Melbourne, Museum Victoria runs four museums at three separate locations, as well as providing extensive outreach and Internet services. Museum Victoria also acts as custodian for the Royal Exhibition Building, the oldest and most complete surviving example of a 19th century international exhibition hall.

  • National Gallery of Victoria: The National Gallery of Victoria is the oldest public art gallery in Australia. Founded in 1861 - only ten years after the colony of Victoria itself - as an appendage to the Public Library in Swanston St in Melbourne, the Museum of Art (as it was then called) first opened its doors boasting a typically Victorian melange. 'Casts of the Elgin marbles, seventy antique statues (also casts), sixty-three busts and a quantity of other objects' formed the core of the display, mostly reproduction, chosen to edify and elevate 'public taste' in the remote but already wealthy colony.

  • Phiilip Island Penguin Parade: The Penguin Parade is located on Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia, only 140 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. It is part of Phillip Island Nature Park. The area is a reserve designed to protect and promote awareness of Little Penguins (previously called Fairy Penguins).

  • Queen Victoria Market: The Queen Victoria Market is more than just Melbourne's shopping mecca - it is a historic landmark, a tourist attraction and an institution for Melbournians. For more than a century, this vast and vibrant centre of trade and commerce has served the consumer needs of more than 130,000 shoppers a week.

  • Victorian Zoos: Welcome to Victoria's Three Great Zoos. This website features Melbourne Zoo, Healesville Sanctuary and Victoria's Open Range Zoo at Werribee. It provides details on facilities and experiences for visitors as well as providing detailed animal information and images.

  • Victoria's National Parks and Reserves: ParkWeb provides information on the parks, rivers, marine areas and heritage properties Parks Victoria manages, downloadable publications and links to a wide range of park management websites.