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{{Distinguish|Port of Melbourne}}
{{Use Australian English|date=March 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}}
{{Infobox Australian place
| name      = Port Melbourne
| image     = Beach Road, Port Melbourne.jpg
| caption   = Beach Road, Port Melbourne
| state     = vic
| type      = suburb
| lga       = City of Melbourne
| lga2      = City of Port Phillip
| alternative_location_map = Australia Victoria metropolitan Melbourne
| coordinates = {{nowrap|{{coord|37|49|26|S|144|54|40|E|display=inline,title}}}}
| elevation = 7
| area      = 9.7
| city      = Melbourne
| est       = 1860
| postcode  = 3207
| pop       = 17,633
| pop_year  = {{CensusAU|2021}}
| pop_footnotes = <ref name=abs>{{Census 2021 AUS | id = SAL22107 | name = Port Melbourne (Suburbs and Localities) | accessdate = 16 July 2022 | quick = on}}</ref>
| fedgov    = [[Division of Macnamara|Macnamara]]
| stategov  = [[Electoral district of Albert Park|Albert Park]]
| dist1     = 3 
| location1 = [[Melbourne]]
| near-nw   = [[Yarraville]]
| near-n    = [[West Melbourne, Victoria|West Melbourne]]
| near-ne   = [[Docklands, Victoria|Docklands]]
| near-w    = [[Newport, Victoria|Newport]]
| near-e    = [[Southbank, Victoria|Southbank]], [[South Melbourne]]
| near-sw   = ''[[Hobsons Bay]]''
| near-s    = ''[[Hobsons Bay]]''
| near-se   = [[Albert Park, Victoria|Albert Park]], [[South Melbourne]]
| local_map = yes
| zoom      = 12
}}

'''Port Melbourne''' is an inner-city suburb in [[Melbourne]], [[Victoria, Australia]], {{convert|3|km|0|abbr=on}} south-west of the [[Melbourne central business district]], located within the Cities of [[City of Melbourne|Melbourne]] and [[City of Port Phillip|Port Phillip]] [[Local government areas of Victoria|local government area]]s. Port Melbourne recorded a population of 17,633 at the [[2021 Australian census|2021 census]].<ref name=abs/>

The area to the north of the [[West Gate Freeway]] is located within the City of Melbourne, with The area to the south located within the City of Port Phillip. The suburb is bordered by the shores of [[Hobsons Bay]] and the lower reaches of the [[Yarra River]]. Port Melbourne covers a large area, which includes the distinct localities of [[Fishermans Bend]], [[Garden City, Victoria|Garden City]] and [[Beacon Cove]].

Historically it was known as '''Sandridge''' and developed as the city's second port, linked to the nearby Melbourne CBD.

The formerly industrial Port Melbourne has been subject to intense [[urban renewal]] over the past three decades. As a result, Port Melbourne is a diverse and historic area, featuring industrial and port areas along the Yarra, to open parklands, bayside beaches, exclusive apartments and Bay Street's restaurants and cafes. The suburb also forms a major transport link from east to west, home to one end of the [[West Gate Bridge]].

==History==
{{Further|History of Melbourne}}
[[File:Liardet's Beach and Hotel in their heyday.jpg|thumb|left|Liardet's Beach and hotel in their heyday as painted by Wilbraham Liardet. State Library Victoria pictures collection.]]
[[File:The railway pier, Sandridge ca 1858 (SLV b22453).jpg|thumb|left|Town Pier (foreground) and Railway Pier (distance) about 1858]]
[[File:Sandridge fire 1875.jpg|thumb|Fire at the Sandridge sugarworks in 1875]]
[[File:The Railway Pier in Sandridge, Melbourne State Library Victoria H29693 1.jpg|thumb|The Railway Pier in Sandridge, Melbourne State Library Victoria H29693/1]]

The most prominent early resident of the area now known as Port Melbourne was [[Wilbraham Liardet|Captain Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn Liardet]], who arrived in 1839 and established a hotel, jetty, and mail service.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91166129 |title=LIARDET'S LANDING RECALLED. |newspaper=[[Port Melbourne Standard]] |location=Vic. |date=3 June 1916 |access-date=18 September 2013 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |id2=liardet-wilbraham-frederick-evelyn-2358 | title = Liardet, Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn (1799–1878) | access-date = 18 September 2013 }}</ref> Liardet later stated that before his arrival the surveyor [[William Wedge Darke]] and his family had camped on the beach in their two roomed, carpeted wooden caravan known as 'Darke's Ark'.<ref name="grieg">{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7259101 |title=MELBOURNE IN INFANCY. |newspaper=[[The Argus (Australia)|The Argus]] |location=Melbourne, Vic. |date=13 September 1913 |access-date=18 September 2013 |page=7 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Liardet credited Wedge with cutting the first track to the beach through the tea tree scrub and hoisting a barrel on a pole, on a high section of ground, to point the way back to the Melbourne settlement.<ref name="grieg"/> From this signpost its first official name, 'Sandridge', was said to have originated.<ref name="grieg"/> The area also became commonly known as 'Liardet's Beach' but Liardet himself was said to have preferred 'Brighton'.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/Port_Phillip_C103_Citation_608_Mar_2013_incorporated_document_Exhibition.pdf | title = Heritage Review: Pier Hotel | access-date = 18 September 2013 | author = City of Port Phillip | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130923043424/http://www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/Port_Phillip_C103_Citation_608_Mar_2013_incorporated_document_Exhibition.pdf | archive-date = 23 September 2013 | url-status = dead }}</ref> It became Port Melbourne in 1884.

The area came into prominence during the [[Victorian gold rush]] of the 1850s.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}} With an increasing number of ships looking to berth, Sandridge became a thriving transport hub. To alleviate the high costs of shipping goods via small vessels up the Yarra River to Melbourne the [[Port Melbourne railway line]] was built in 1854 to connect Sandridge to Melbourne.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}} The disused [[Sandridge Bridge]] takes its name from this historic railway line.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

In 1860, Port Melbourne was an early area of Victoria to gain Municipal status with the Sandridge Borough, which later became the [[City of Port Melbourne]].{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

In the early years of Port Melbourne, the suburb was separated from neighbouring [[Albert Park, Victoria|Albert Park]] by a large shallow lagoon. This was gradually filled in over the years, with the last of it completed in 1929. Today the area is largely covered by the eponymous Lagoon Reserve, a public park to the east of the Esplanade between Liardet Street and Graham Street,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.toiletmap.gov.au/toilet.aspx?id=8083dd9d-15b0-46f3-8659-73a0c351b929&type=toilet |title=map of Lagoon Reserve |access-date=31 January 2010 |archive-date=1 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110401045039/http://www.toiletmap.gov.au/toilet.aspx?type=toilet&id=8083dd9d-15b0-46f3-8659-73a0c351b929 |url-status=dead }}</ref> although the original extent of the lagoon was much greater.

As a transport hub, Port Melbourne had numerous hotels. Early industries included a [[sugar refinery|sugar refining]], [[Soap#Commercial production|soap production]]{{Broken anchor|date=2024-06-15|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=Soap#Commercial production|reason= The anchor (Commercial production) [[Special:Diff/377881751|has been deleted]].}}, [[History of candle making#Manufacturing of candles 2|candle works]], [[Chemical industry|chemical works]], [[Rice mill|rice]] and [[flour mill]]s, [[gasworks]], a [[distillery]] and a boot factory. [[Station Pier|Station]] and [[Princes Pier]]s were major places of arrival to Australia for immigrants prior to the availability of affordable [[air travel]].{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

For many years Port Melbourne was a focus of Melbourne's criminal underworld, which operated [[smuggling]] syndicates on the docks.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}} The old [[Ships Painters and Dockers Union]] was notorious for being controlled by gangsters. The Waterside Workers Federation, on the other hand, was a stronghold of the [[Communist Party of Australia]].{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

With the amalgamation of the local Council into the City of Port Phillip in 1994, many of Port Melbourne's civic institutions were adaptively reused. As a result, the [[Port Melbourne Town Hall]] is now a [[public library]].

As the importance of the Port has declined, and as manufacturing industries have moved out of the inner city area, Port Melbourne has increasingly become a [[residential suburb]]. The area where Port Melbourne originally developed, around [[Station Pier]] and [[Princes Pier]], has been redeveloped with a mixture of apartment complexes and [[medium-density housing]], the best known of which is the [[Beacon Cove]] development.

==Demographics==

In the [[2016 Australian census|2016 census]], there were 16,175 people in Port Melbourne. 63.2% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were England 5.4%, New Zealand 2.6%, Greece 2.0%, United States of America 1.0% and Italy 1.0%. 72.3% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Greek 4.8%, Italian 1.7%, Mandarin 1.3%, French 0.8% and Russian 0.8%. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 38.3% and Catholic 21.8%.<ref name=census>{{Census 2016 AUS|id=SSC22095|name=Port Melbourne (State Suburb)|access-date=12 April 2018|quick=on}}</ref>

==Transport==
===Road===
Two major freeways run through Port Melbourne; the [[West Gate Freeway]], which runs east–west from the [[West Gate Bridge]] and [[CityLink]], which runs north toward the [[Bolte Bridge]]. Other main roads include Bay Street, Williamstown Road, Lorimer Street (which runs along the [[Yarra River]]), Graham Street, Salmon Street, Ingles Street and Beach Street (which runs toward Beaconsfield Parade and [[St Kilda, Victoria|St Kilda]]). Port Melbourne's roads are a mix of planning styles and as a result can be difficult to navigate.

Port Melbourne is serviced by an extensive [[List of Melbourne bus routes|bus network]] operated by [[CDC Melbourne]] which connects it to Melbourne CBD and surrounding suburbs.

===Rail===
[[File:Melbourne Tram Route (109) at Station Pier.jpg|thumb|right|The former [[Port Melbourne railway station]] is now the terminus for the light rail line]]
Port Melbourne is serviced by [[Melbourne tram route 109]], which has been run as a high patronage high frequency light rail service since the heavy rail line was converted to light rail in 1987. While there are several disused freight rail links, the light rail is the only used rail connection to Port Melbourne. There have been a number of proposals for tram and light rail extension in Port Melbourne.
[[File:Proposed beaconsfield tram route.gif|thumb|left|Proposed Beaconsfield Parade St Kilda-Port Melbourne route]]
'''St Kilda-Port Melbourne link'''

A five kilometre tram link between St Kilda and Port Melbourne along Beaconsfield Parade was first raised by the City of Port Phillip in 2005.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}} The City of Port Phillip's 2007 feasibility study into the route found that the high density population could sustain around 200,000 annual commuter trips and that the link would be financially viable if tourists were charged $6 per one-way trip.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

To address residents concerns over possible loss of beachfront views, the Council investigated the possibility of a new high-tech line, involving [[Ground level power supply|wire-free]] operation.<ref>{{cite news
| title=Beach tram to sting tourists $6 a ride
| url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/beach-ride-for-6/2006/12/13/1165685725428.html
| first=Stephen
| last=Moynihan
| publisher=[[The Age]]
| date=13 December 2006
| access-date=5 March 2007
}}</ref> Critics{{which|date=January 2023}} argued that it would be duplicating the [[Melbourne tram route 12|route 12 tram route]], with the two routes running in parallel just 200 metres apart for about 2 kilometres along Beaconsfield Parade. However, a direct tram journey between St Kilda and Port Melbourne is not possible and currently requires a change of routes at [[Southbank, Victoria|Southbank]], which is a 10-kilometre round trip.

===Port===
[[File:Spirit of Tasmania at Port Melbourne.jpg|thumb|Port Melbourne and passenger ships as seen from Middle Park]]
Today, Port Melbourne still serves as a [[transport hub]] for [[passenger vessel|passenger]] and [[cargo vessel]]s. Many [[Ocean liner|luxury liners]], [[naval vessel]]s and [[ferries]] arrive at Station Pier. Cargo traffic takes place further west, near the mouth of the Yarra River, principally at [[Webb Dock]].

==Housing==
[[File:Port Melbourne Beacon Cove.jpg|thumb|300px|Higher density development at Beacon Cove Beach]]
[[File:Aerial panorama of Port Melbourne.jpg|thumb|Aerial panorama of Port Melbourne]]
Houses in Port Melbourne range from single-fronted Victorian timber worker's cottages to new apartments and housing developments. Port Melbourne has undergone a major demographic shift in the past twenty years, from one of the cheapest and poorest suburbs in the city to one of the most expensive and wealthiest. Many large apartment developments in Port Melbourne occupy large blocks of land, taking over large factories and warehouses, such as HM@S project in Beach Street, ID Apartments in Pickles and Rouse Streets, and Bayshore and [[Bayview Apartment]]s in Bay Street. Each of these developments comprise multiple buildings, and many of the redevelopments have preserved the [[cultural heritage|heritage]] buildings. The Port Melbourne population now combines significant numbers of wealthy people, with those who live in public housing and other "old Port" locales. The area has many residents whose families came from [[Greece]] in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as more recent arrivals from Africa and Asia.

==Commerce==
[[File:Bay St Pt Melbourne Sep 07.jpg|thumb|left|Bay Street in September 2007]]

Bay Street is Port Melbourne's main and historic commercial area.

[[Toyota Australia]]'s Head Office is in Port Melbourne.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.toyota.com.au/toyota/company/office-locations|title = About the Company &#124; Toyota Australia}}</ref>

The [[Maritime Union of Australia]] maintains a strong presence in the area.


==Sport==
[[File:Port melbourne fc 1889.jpg|thumb|Port Melbourne football club team, 1889]]
===Australian rules football===
The [[Port Melbourne Football Club]], known as "the Borough" is one of Melbourne's oldest [[Australian rules football]] sides, and plays in the [[Victorian Football League]]. The club's home games are played at [[North Port Oval]].
Another local team is the [[Port Melbourne Colts Football Club]] which plays in the [[Southern Football Netball League]].

===Cricket===
The Port Melbourne Cricket Club founded in 1874, is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia, and one of the twelve founding [[cricket]] clubs of the Melbourne District Cricket competition. Known as "the Borough", the club's long and proud history includes 2 [[Victorian Sub-District Cricket Association]] Championship Titles and 29 Premierships (including 10 in the 1st Grade). The club fields 5 senior teams across a number of grades and 10 junior teams in under 12's, under 14's and under 16's, as well as T20 Blast and the [[Kwik cricket|Milo in2CRICKET Program.]] The five senior sides now play in the Southern Bayside [[Cricket in Australia|Cricket]] Competition administered by [[Cricket Victoria]] and the club plays its home games at [[North Port Oval]].

===Association football (soccer)===
Port Melbourne is represented by the [[Port Melbourne Sharks]], an [[association football]] team, which has produced names such as [[Daniel Allsopp]] and [[Rodrigo Vargas (soccer, born 1978)|Rodrigo Vargas]]. The team currently competes in the [[National Premier Leagues Victoria]] (second-[[Australian football (soccer) league system|tier]] in Australia, behind the [[A-League]]). The Sharks play their home games at [[SS Anderson Reserve]].

===Baseball===
The Port Melbourne “Mariners” Baseball Club established in 1929 plays in the Victoria Baseball Summer League, fielding six senior teams and four junior teams. Longstaff Field has been upgraded to include an artificial infield and competition-standard lighting, allowing the club to play night games.

===Tennis===
The Port Melbourne [[Tennis]] Club was established in 1885 and is located in Morris Reserve, Swallow St, Port Melbourne.

===Shooting sport===
The [https://misc.org.au/ Melbourne International Shooting Club] (MISC), formed in 1955 and moved to the present site in the late 1970s, is an [[International Shooting Sport Federation|ISSF]]-approved [[shooting range|shooting complex]] for target pistol and small-bore rifle [[shooting sport|shooting disciplines]] and was the venue of choice for the [[2005 Summer Deaflympics]] and the [[2006 Commonwealth Games]] [[ISSF shooting events|events]], and is affiliated with several [[umbrella organization|umbrella bodies]] including the Victorian Amateur Pistol Association (VAPA), Target Rifle Victoria (TRV) and [[IPSC Australia Inc|IPSC Australia]].  The facility is located at [[Fishermans Bend]] north of the [[West Gate Freeway]] on Todd Road (the last exit east of the [[Yarra River]] before starting the [[West Gate Bridge]]), west of the Westgate Park and between Gate 7 of the old [[Holden]] plant and the Melbourne International Kart Raceway.

===Kart racing===
The [https://www.gkcv.com.au/ Go Kart Club of Victoria] (GKCV), initially based at the western suburb of [[Brooklyn, Victoria|Brooklyn]] and relocated to Fishermans Bend in 1995, is amongst the oldest of established [[kart racing]] clubs in Australia and is the oldest in Victoria. It operates the {{cvt|966|m|yd}} Melbourne International Kart Raceway, located at the corner of Todd Road and Cook Street north of the West Gate Freeway Today it is the largest [[go-kart]] club in Victoria and the second largest within Australia, having hosted rounds of the Australian Kart Championship and [[Rotax Max Challenge|Rotax Pro Tour]] as well as the popular annual City of Melbourne Titles and Monthly Club Days, and once held the [[Commission Internationale de Karting|CIK/FIA]] [[Oceania Championship]]s in 1997.

===Trugo===
There are two clubs for the indigenous casual game of [[trugo]] in Melbourne: the Port Melbourne Trugo Club and the Sandridge Trugo Club.

==Localities within Port Melbourne==

Port Melbourne features three distinctive localities, with identities separated from the main section of the neighbourhood.
[[File:Melbourne city skyline from the perspective of Port Melbourne.jpg|thumb|Melbourne city skyline from the perspective of Port Melbourne]]

===Garden City===
{{Main|Garden City, Victoria}}
[[File:Garden_City_shops,_Port_Melbourne.jpg|thumb|Garden City shops, Port Melbourne]]
Garden City is a locality within Port Melbourne and the City of Port Phillip. It started in the 1920s as a planned "garden suburb", similar to those built in Britain a few years earlier during the [[Garden City Movement]]. The early development was built as low-cost housing by the [[State Bank of Victoria|State Bank]], with later additions of public housing by the [[Housing Commission of Victoria]]. It comprises semi-attached single and double-storey houses arranged around a series of public open spaces, in a distorted [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts]] layout. Contrary to popular belief, the "Bank Houses" were never public housing and have always been in private hands. The "Bank Houses" area later became known as "nobs hill", a reference to relative wealth of their occupants compared to the residents of the clinker brick public housing that was added later. The Housing Commission area was known as 'Little Baghdad'.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060824202227/http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ncas/multimedia/gazetteer/list/gardencity.html Australian Places – Garden City]</ref>

The Garden City post office in Centre Avenue has been open since 1945. ({{Coord|-37.8362|144.9199|format=dms|type:landmark_region:AU-VIC}})<ref name = "Post_Office">{{Citation
  | last = Premier Postal History  | title = Post Office List | url = https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=vic&country= | access-date = 18 February 2011}}</ref>

===Beacon Cove===
[[File:Beacon Cove of Port Melbourne.jpg|thumb|right|[[Station Pier]] and Beacon Cove development in Port Melbourne]]
'''Beacon Cove''' is a locality within Port Melbourne and the [[City of Port Phillip]]. It comprises approximately 1100 dwellings in a mixture of low-rise medium density and high-rise housing, with a small supermarket, some commercial space, a small number of [[cafes]] and [[restaurant]]s and a leisure complex including a gym, swimming pool and tennis courts. It was developed over the decade from 1996 by Australian developer Mirvac,<ref>[http://savepmg.com/top/useful-links/history/ History of Beacon Cove] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226122741/http://savepmg.com/top/useful-links/history/ |date=26 December 2013 }}</ref> following the collapse of the "Sandridge City" scheme for a [[gated community]] featuring canalside housing. The site was formerly an industrial facility. Beacon Cove features a waterfront promenade, palm-lined boulevards and a layout that allows the retention of two operational shipping beacons. Most of the low-rise housing is arranged around a series of small parks, in a postmodern scaled-down Beaux-Arts plan, similar in layout to nearby [[St Vincent Gardens]] in Albert Park. Along the foreshore is a series of 11–14-storey high-rise apartment towers with a small amount of very upmarket low-rise housing at the western end, directly fronting Sandridge Beach. The layout re-routed Beach Street away from the foreshore and the apartments along the waterfront have direct access to the promenade. The development was completed in stages,<ref>[http://www.contracts.vic.gov.au/major/beacon_cove.htm Beacon Cove Contracts] {{webarchive|url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20090519065802/http://www.contracts.vic.gov.au/major/beacon_cove.htm |date=19 May 2009 }}</ref> working west from Princes Street, and this is reflected in the different styles of architecture.
As of 2013 the owner<ref>[http://www.actiongroupaustralia.com.au/waterfront-place.php Action Group Australia] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130713104723/http://www.actiongroupaustralia.com.au/waterfront-place.php |date=13 July 2013 }}</ref> of the leisure complex has proposed replacing it with a 19-storey apartment complex, and the [[City of Port Phillip]] has instead proposed rezoning the site for mixed use with a 10-storey height limit.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/waterfront-place-development.htm |title=Waterfront Place Development |access-date=13 July 2013 |archive-date=3 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130703033508/http://www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/waterfront-place-development.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> A number of community groups oppose both proposals.<ref>[http://savepmg.com/ Save Port Melbourne Gateway] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130713104734/http://savepmg.com/ |date=13 July 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://itsyourbeach.com/ |title=It's YOUR beach |access-date=13 July 2013 |archive-date=27 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527234130/http://itsyourbeach.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://beaconcovena.blogspot.com.au/ Beacon Cove Neighbourhood Association]</ref>

===Fishermans Bend===
{{Main|Fishermans Bend}}

[[File:Pier35 marina fishermans bend.jpg|thumbnail|Pier 35 marina in Fishermans Bend]]
Fishermans Bend (formerly Fishermen's Bend) is a locality within Port Melbourne and the City of Melbourne. It is positioned immediately to the east of the West Gate Bridge, on the south bank of the Yarra River, adjacent to the suburb of Port Melbourne and opposite [[Coode Island]], on the north shore of the Yarra River.

Fishermans Bend originally included the area now known as Garden City, which was renamed in 1929.

From the 1850s, the site was a location for Bay fishermen of European descent. Some thirty families lived on the Bend, frequently finding additional work in the docks and cargo ships; [[ballast (ship)|ballast]] was loaded onto ships returning to Europe. Habitation was in rough shacks along the Bend, made from [[corrugated iron]], flattened [[kerosene]] tins or wood. There were no [[roads]], [[retail|shops]], or [[sewerage]]. Water was collected from hanging out sail canvases, and stored in iron tanks or casks milk came from a nearby farm. Fishing continues on the Bay, but today only two fishing licences belong to descendants of these early pioneer settlers. The last remaining shack on the Bend was demolished in 1970, to make way for [[Webb Dock]]. The new [[Surf Life Saving Club]] headquarters stand on the site (Meiers 2006).

The neighbourhood of Fishermans Bend also has a significant place in Australian aviation history, being the home of several prominent historical Australian aircraft design and manufacturing companies, including the [[Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation]], [[Holden]], [[Smorgon Steel]], [[Government Aircraft Factories]], the [[Defence Science and Technology Organisation|Aeronautical Research Laboratory]] and regional facilities for [[Boeing]]. [[Fishermen's Bend Aerodrome]] remained in use until 1957.

Fishermans Bend is a primary industrial centre at the foot of the West Gate Bridge and contains major establishments for the [[Defence Science and Technology Organisation]], Holden, [[Hawker de Havilland]], GKN Aerospace Engineering Services, the [[Cooperative Research Centre|Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Composite Structures]], [[Kraft Foods]], [[Toyota Australia]], port security and a campus of [[RMIT University]].

It also has a [[marina]], known as d'Albora Marinas Pier 35, and several [[container terminal|container ship ports]].

Fishermans Bend has a single large reserve known as [[Westgate Park]], a large artificial [[wetland]] established in 1985.<ref>[http://www.westgatepark.org/friends-of-westgate-park/ Friends of Westgate Park, Park History]</ref>

==Notable people==

Notable people who lived or worked in or represented Sandridge, later Port Melbourne;
* [[James Boyd (Australian politician)|James Boyd]] (1867–1941), businessman and politician
* [[Charles Gordon Campbell]] (1840–1905), businessman and pastoralist
* [[William Wedge Darke|William Darke]] (1810–1890), surveyor and colonist
* [[Gloria Dawn (actor)|Gloria Dawn]] (1929–1978), actor
* [[Frederick Derham]] (1844–1922), businessman and politician
* [[William Howe (mayor)|William Howe]] (1864–1952), mayor and newspaperman
* [[Elwyn Roy King|Elwyn King]] (1894–1941), pilot and engineer
* [[Wilbraham Liardet]] (1799–1879), hotelier and artist
* [[John Madden (judge)|John Madden]] (1844–1918), judge and politician
* [[Jack Murray (racing driver)|Jack Murray]] (1907–1983), racing driver
* [[Leslie John William Newman|Leslie Newman]], (1878–1938), entomologist
* [[William Nicholson (Australian politician)|William Nicholson]] (1816–1865), businessman and politician
* [[James O'Collins|James O’Collins]] (1892–1983), bishop
* [[William Thomas Reay|William Reay]] (1858–1929), journalist and politician
* [[Edward Russell (trade unionist)|Edward Russell]] (1867–1944), trade unionist
* [[Hall Thorpe]] (1874–1947), artist
* [[J. L. Treloar]] (1894–1952), public servant
* [[Olive Zakharov]], (1925–1995), politician

==See also==
* [[City of Port Melbourne]] – Port Melbourne was previously within this former local government area.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* ''The Pier Donkeys of Victoria'' Eardley, G.H. [[Australian Railway History|Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin]], March 1965

==External links==
{{Commons category|Port Melbourne, Victoria}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070913014255/http://www.aarg.com.au/aviationaust.htm The Australian National Aviation Museum] (archived)
*[http://www.pmhps.org.au/ The Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society]
*[http://www.portphillip.vic.gov.au Melbourne Port Phillip Council]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050709214721/http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ncas/multimedia/gazetteer/list/ptmelb.html Australian Places – Port Melbourne] (archived)

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