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Former creeks in Melbourne (Urban Forest)

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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This shapefile delineates historic creek lines digitised from the 1855 map Melbourne and its Suburbs" compiled by James Kearney, draughtsman ; engraved by David Tulloch and James D. Brown. http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/89107. The Elizabeth Street, Swanston Street and Fitzroy Garden creek alignments are included based on descriptions in:

  1. Presland, Gary. 2009. Place for Village.

  2. Burchett, Winston. 1978. East Melbourne, 1837-1977.

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Field Value
Title Former creeks in Melbourne (Urban Forest)
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/f47a41e3-0be0-432b-8914-74cf66cf49cd
Remote Last Updated
Contact Point
City of Melbourne Open Data
opendata@melbourne.vic.gov.au
Reference Period
Geospatial Coverage Melbourne
Data Portal Melbourne Data

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Melbourne Data "Former creeks in Melbourne (Urban Forest)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.melbourne.vic.gov.au/explore/dataset/former-creeks-in-melbourne-urban-forest/