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Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

is a major metropolis in Victoria, Australia.

The name Melbourne may also refer to:

In Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  • Melbourne city centre
    Melbourne city centre
    Melbourne City Centre is an area of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. It is not to be confused with the larger local government area of the City of Melbourne...

    , the central area of metropolitan Melbourne
  • City of Melbourne
    City of Melbourne
    The City of Melbourne is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia, located in the central city area of Melbourne. The city has an area of 36 square kilometres and has an estimated population of 93,105 people. The city's motto is "Vires acquirit eundo" which means "She gathers strength as she...

    , local government area
  • Electoral district of Melbourne
    Electoral district of Melbourne
    The Electoral district of Melbourne is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is currently based around the localities of Carlton, North Carlton, Melbourne, East Melbourne, West Melbourne, North Melbourne, Parkville, Newmarket, Kensington and Flemington, and includes Melbourne...

    , an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Australia
  • Division of Melbourne
    Division of Melbourne
    The Division of Melbourne is an Australian Electoral Division of Victoria. It is represented by Adam Bandt of the Australian Greens.Created at Federation in 1900 the division was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election...

    , an electorate of the Federal Parliament of Australia
  • Melbourne Cricket Ground
    Melbourne Cricket Ground
    The Melbourne Cricket Ground is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne and is home to the Melbourne Cricket Club. It is the tenth largest stadium in the world, the largest in Australia, the largest stadium for playing cricket, and holds the world record for the highest light...

    , the traditional home of Australia cricket and Australian Rules football
  • Melbourne Cup
    Melbourne Cup
    The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major Thoroughbred horse race. Marketed as "the race that stops a nation", it is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over. It is the richest "two-mile" handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races...

    , premier horse race, and the race that 'stops the nation'
  • Melbourne Football Club
    Melbourne Football Club
    The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League , based in Melbourne, Victoria....

    , an Australian rules football team
  • Melbourne Vixens
    Melbourne Vixens
    The Melbourne Vixens are an Australian netball team in Melbourne that compete in the trans-Tasman ANZ Championship. The team were formed in 2007 as an amalgamation of the Melbourne Phoenix and Melbourne Kestrels from the previous Commonwealth Bank Trophy. Sharelle McMahon and Bianca Chatfield have...

    , an Australian netball team
  • Melbourne Storm
    Melbourne Storm
    The Melbourne Storm are an Australian professional rugby league club based in the city of Melbourne. They are the first fully professional rugby league team based in the Australian rules football-dominated state of Victoria....

    , a rugby league team
  • Melbourne Tigers
    Melbourne Tigers
    The Melbourne Tigers are Australia's oldest and most respected basketball team, established circa 1931 in a local church hall League. Entering the National Basketball League in 1984, they are now the only Melbourne team, after the South Dragons withdrew from the league.The Melbourne Tigers are the...

    , an Australian basketball team
  • Melbourne Victory FC Football (soccer) Club
  • Melbourne Knights
    Melbourne Knights
    Melbourne Knights Football Club is a football club representing Melbourne, Australia in the Victorian Premier League . The club is one of the most successful football clubs in Australia, being a two-time championship and four-time premiership winner in the now defunct National Soccer League...

     Football (soccer) Club
  • University of Melbourne
    University of Melbourne
    The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...

    , the oldest university in Victoria
  • Melbourne High School (Victoria), a boys' secondary school located in South Yarra
  • Melbourne Grammar School
    Melbourne Grammar School
    Melbourne Grammar School is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school predominantly for boys, located in South Yarra and Caulfield, suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia....


Other places

Antarctica
  • Mount Melbourne
    Mount Melbourne
    Mount Melbourne is a massive stratovolcano that makes up the projection of the coast between Wood Bay and Terra Nova Bay, in Victoria Land of Antarctica....



Canada
  • Melbourne, Nova Scotia
    Melbourne, Nova Scotia
    Melbourne is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Municipality of the District of Yarmouth ....

  • Melbourne, Quebec
    Melbourne, Quebec
    Melbourne is a township of 950 people, part of the Le Val-Saint-François Regional County Municipality in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec.-External links:*...


England
  • Melbourne, Derbyshire
    Melbourne, Derbyshire
    Melbourne is a Georgian market town in South Derbyshire, England. It is about 8 miles south of Derby and 2 miles from the River Trent. In 1837 a then tiny settlement in Australia was named after William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister, and thus indirectly takes...

  • Melbourne, East Riding of Yorkshire
    Melbourne, East Riding of Yorkshire
    Melbourne is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately west of the market town of Market Weighton and south west of the market town of Pocklington. It lies just to the south of the Pocklington Canal...

  • Melbourn
    Melbourn
    Melbourn is a large village in the far south west of Cambridgeshire, England. It is located next to the A10 just north of Royston. Melbourn has over 4,400 inhabitants...

    , Cambridgeshire
    Cambridgeshire
    Cambridgeshire is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west...



United States
  • Melbourne, Arkansas
    Melbourne, Arkansas
    Melbourne is a city in Izard County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 1,673 at the 2000 census. The town is the county seat of Izard County, and home to the main campus of Ozarka College.-Geography:Melbourne is located at ....

  • Melbourne, California
    Melbourne, California
    Melbourne is an unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California. It is located west-northwest of Comptche, at an elevation of 167 feet .A post office operated at Melbourne from 1901 to 1918....

  • Melbourne, Florida
    Melbourne, Florida
    Melbourne is a city in Brevard County, Florida, United States. As of 2009, the population estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau is 78,323. The municipal area is the second largest by size and by population in the county. Melbourne is a principal city of the Palm Bay – Melbourne – Titusville, Florida...

  • Melbourne, Iowa
    Melbourne, Iowa
    Melbourne is a city in Marshall County, Iowa, United States. The population was 794 at the 2000 census.-History:The town of Melbourne was plotted February 23, 1882, by Milwaukee Land Company, in section 6 of Logan Township and was incorporated December 30, 1895. Melbourne was the only town in...

  • Melbourne, Kentucky
    Melbourne, Kentucky
    Melbourne is a city in Campbell County, Kentucky, United States, on the Ohio River. The population was 401 at the 2010 census. St. Anne Convent is located in Melbourne; scenes from the movie 'RAIN MAN' were filmed there.-Geography:...


Music

  • Melbourne (album)
    Melbourne (album)
    Melbourne is a compilation album by the Models, recorded in the early 1980s and released in 2001. The album was distributed by Shock Records....

     a compilation album by the Models
  • Melbourne (song)
    Melbourne (song)
    Melbourne is the second single by The Whitlams from their breakthrough album, Eternal Nightcap. It was released on 27 January 1998. The song peaked at #70 on the Australian ARIA singles chart. It was also...

    , a song by The Whitlams

People

  • Viscount Melbourne
    Viscount Melbourne
    Viscount Melbourne, of Kilmore in the County of Cavan, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland held by the Lamb family. This family descended from Matthew Lamb, who represented Stockbridge and Peterborough in the House of Commons. In 1755 he was created a Baronet, of Brocket Hall in the County of...

    , 1st Viscount Melbourne (1748-1829)
  • William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
    William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
    William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, PC, FRS was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary and Prime Minister . He is best known for his intense and successful mentoring of Queen Victoria, at ages 18-21, in the ways of politics...

     (1779-1848)
  • Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne
    Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne
    Frederick James Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne PC, GCB , known as the Lord Beauvale from 1839 to 1848, was a British diplomat....

     (1782-1853)

Other

  • Royal Melbourne (disambiguation) for that name
  • Melbourne Shuffle
    Melbourne Shuffle
    The Melbourne Shuffle is a rave and club dance that originated in the late 1980s in the underground rave music scene in Melbourne, Australia. The basic movements in the dance are a fast heel-and-toe action with a style suitable for various types of electronic music. Some variants incorporate arm...

    , a dance style
  • HMAS Melbourne
    HMAS Melbourne
    Three ships of the Royal Australian Navy have been named HMAS Melbourne, for Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria and second largest city in Australia....

    , three Royal Australian Navy ships named for the city
  • USS Melbourne, a fictional spaceship appearing in the Star Trek franchise, primarily the Next Generation episode The Best of Both Worlds
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