Chelsea Heights is a suburb in
Melbourne
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,
Victoria
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,
Australia
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, 30 km south-east of Melbourne's
Central Business District
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, located within the
City of Kingston
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local government area
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. Chelsea Heights recorded a population of 5,393 at the .
[
The suburb is home t]
Chelsea Heights Primary School
The Chelsea Heights Cricket & Football Club and the Bonbeach Blue Jays Baseball Club.
On the border of Chelsea Heights and Chelsea is the Bayside Trail Bay Trail or Bayside Trail may refer to:
* Bay Trail, Saskatchewan, unincorporate community in Canada
* Bay Trail (Australia), a trail in Victoria, Australia
* San Francisco Bay Trail, a trail in California, United States
* Bay Trail (system on ...
bicycle track, which begins in Seaford and continues north for approximately 43 km to Port Melbourne
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.
History
Prior to the 1870s, Chelsea Heights was known as the Isles of Wannarkladdin, being the only high land of the Carrum Carrum Swamp.Carrum Carrum Swamp: Swamped with History
Popular reference
The aerial photography at the beginning of the
Network 7 show ''
Kath & Kim
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'' shows the central portion of Chelsea Heights.
See also
*
City of Springvale
The City of Springvale was a Local government in Australia, local government area about southeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of , and existed from 1857 until 1994.
H ...
– Chelsea Heights was previously within this former local government area.
References
External links
Australian Places: Chelsea Heights
Suburbs of Melbourne
Suburbs of the City of Kingston (Victoria)
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