South Wharf is an inner-city suburb in

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, 2 km south-west of Melbourne's

Central Business District A central business district (CBD) is the Commerce, commercial and business center of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides wit ...

, located within the

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. South Wharf recorded a population of 71 at the 2021 census. South Wharf is a small inner suburb south west from Melbourne's CBD. Its borders are the

Yarra River The Yarra River or historically, the Yarra Yarra River, (Kulin languages: ''Berrern'', ''Birr-arrung'', ''Bay-ray-rung'', ''Birarang'', ''Birrarung'', and ''Wongete'') is a perennial river in south-central Victoria, Australia. The lower st ...

to the north, Wurundjeri Way to the west, the

West Gate Freeway The West Gate Freeway is a major freeway in Melbourne, the busiest urban freeway and the busiest road in Australia, carrying upwards of 200,000 vehicles per day. It links Geelong (via the Princes Freeway) and Melbourne's western suburbs to ...

and a small private car park bordering Ford Street and Munro Street, which is part of the City of Port Phillip, to the south and the former Port Melbourne railway line and Clarendon Street to the east. Gazetted in 2008 and formerly part of the industrial and shipping area of Southbank, the renaming is part of a wider

urban renewal Urban renewal (sometimes called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address real or perceived urban decay. Urban renewal involves the clearing ...

strategy to link Southbank with the

Melbourne Docklands Docklands is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, on the western end of the central business district. Docklands had a population of 15,495 at the 2021 census. Primarily a waterfront area centred on the banks of the Yarra R ...

. South Wharf includes some of Melbourne's landmarks, including the

Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC), colloquially referred to as Jeff's Shed, is a group of three adjacent buildings next to the Yarra River in South Wharf, an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The venues ar ...

and the

Melbourne Maritime Museum The former Melbourne Maritime Museum, now, the ''Polly Woodside'' tall ship and museum, managed by the National Trust of Australia, is situated in South Wharf on the Yarra River in the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is home to the ...

, with its heritage ''

Polly Woodside ''Polly Woodside'' is a Belfast-built, three-masted, iron-hulled barque, preserved in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), and forming the central feature of the South Wharf precinct. The ship was originally built in Belfast by William J. Woodside ...

''. South Wharf is also home to many apartments, shopping outlet

DFO South Wharf Direct Factory Outlet (DFO) is a brand of factory outlet shopping centres in Australia. They are large-floor warehouse buildings containing partitioned stores where retail outlets sell excess or previous seasons' stocks at reduced prices. Vicin ...

and the 5-star luxury hotel Pan Pacific Hotel. A five-storey Victorian warehouse, known as the Tea House (at 28 Clarendon Street), built in 1888, is one of the few buildings which survived the redevelopment of the area. File:Melbourne_Exhibition_Centre.jpg,

File:Polly woodside-1w.jpg, The ''

'' File:Docklands & Southbank, Melbourne, Australia 04.jpg, Night view of

Seafarers Bridge The Seafarers Bridge is a footbridge over the Yarra River between Docklands and South Wharf in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The bridge connects the north and south banks of the river while providing a formal entrance to the Melbourne Conv ...

at South Wharf File:South Wharf & Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.jpg, South Wharf and the

File:Crown Casino Complex & Melbourne Exhibition Building.jpg, Looking towards South Wharf from the

Rialto Towers Rialto (often The Rialto, or Rialto Towers) is a skyscraper located at 525 Collins Street, Melbourne, Collins Street, in the western side of the Melbourne central business district, Victoria, Australia. It was the tallest office building in the ...

observation deck

References

External links

DFO South Wharf website

South Wharf Association
{{Authority control Suburbs of Melbourne Suburbs of the City of Port Phillip Suburbs of the City of Melbourne (LGA) Port of Melbourne