Burnside is a suburb in
Melbourne
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,
Victoria,
Australia
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, west of Melbourne's
Central Business District
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, located within the
City of Melton local government area
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. Burnside recorded a population of 5,800 at the
2021 census.
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Attractions
* Burnside Shopping Centre
* Kororoit Creek
The Kororoit Creek is a perennial stream, watercourse of the Port Phillip catchment, rising in the outer north western suburbs of Melbourne, in the Australian state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria.
Location and features
The Kororoit Creek r ...
Burnside is located beside the upper end of the Kororoit Creek, which still has populations of native reptiles, including Tiger snake, Eastern Blue-tongued Lizard, Common snakeneck turtle
The eastern long-necked turtle (''Chelodina longicollis'')Kennett, R., Roe, J., Hodges, K., and Georges, A. 2009. ''Chelodina longicollis'' (Shaw 1784) – eastern long-necked turtle, common long-necked turtle, common snake-necked turtle. ''In'': ...
and Eastern brown snake
The eastern brown snake (''Pseudonaja textilis''), often referred to as the common brown snake, is a species of highly venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is native to eastern and central Australia and southern New Guinea. It was ...
.
Kororoit Creek is also home to the Eastern Banjo Frog
''Limnodynastes dumerilii'' is a frog species from the family Limnodynastidae. The informal names for the species and its subspecies include eastern or southern banjo frog, and bull frog.Waite, Edgar R. (1929): ''The reptiles and amphibians of ...
, Common Eastern Froglet
The common eastern froglet (''Crinia signifera'') is a very common, Australian ground-dwelling frog, of the family Myobatrachidae.
Distribution
The common eastern froglet ranges from southeastern Australia, from Adelaide to Melbourne, up the ea ...
and the endangered Growling Grass Frog
The growling grass frog (''Ranoidea raniformis''), also commonly known as the southern bell frog, warty swamp frog and erroneously as the green frog, is a species of ground-dwelling tree frog native to southeastern Australia, ranging from sout ...
and Striped Legless Lizard
The striped legless lizard (''Delma impar'') is a species of lizards in the Pygopodidae family endemic to Australia. As of 2015 it is threatened with extinction, with few habitats left.
The lizard is up to 30 cm in length.Department of Envi ...
.
See also
* Kororoit Creek Trail
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The Kororoit Creek Trail is a shared use path for cyclists and pedestrians, which follows the Kororoit Creek in the inner western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
The interrupted upper section is located in Burnside and Dee ...
References
Suburbs of Melbourne
Suburbs of the City of Melton
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