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Canterbury railway station is located on the Lilydale and Belgrave lines in Victoria, Australia.
It serves the eastern Melbourne suburb of Canterbury, and it opened on 1 December 1882.

Elizabeth Street is one of the main streets in the Melbourne central business district, Victoria, Australia, part of the Hoddle Grid laid out in 1837.
It is presumed to have been named in honour of governor Richard Bourke's wife.

The Great Melbourne Telescope was built by the Grubb Telescope Company in Dublin, Ireland in 1868, and installed at the Melbourne Observatory in Melbourne, Australia in 1869.
In 1945 that Observatory closed and the telescope was sold and moved to the Mount Stromlo Observatory near Canberra.
It was rebuilt in the late 1950s.
In 2003 the telescope, still in use as an observatory, was severely damaged in a bushfire.
About 70% of the components were salvageable; a project to restore the telescope to working condition started in 2013.

Luna Park Melbourne is a historic amusement park located on the foreshore of Port Phillip Bay in St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria.
It opened on 13 December 1912, with a formal opening a week later, and has been operating almost continuously ever since.

Melbourne Water is a Victorian Government-owned statutory authority that controls and manages much of the water bodies and supplies in metropolitan Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, including the reservoirs, lakes, wetlands, canals and urban creeks, and the sewerage and drainage systems that services the city.

South Melbourne is a light rail station on the former St Kilda railway line, and was located in the Melbourne suburb of South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
The station was adjacent to the intersection of Ferrars and Dorcas Streets, just minutes from South Melbourne Market.
A pair of low-level side platforms, immediately north of the disused station, now serve route 96 trams on the light rail line, with a pedestrian crossing in between.

The Photo Ark is a National Geographic project, led by photographer Joel Sartore, with the goal of photographing all species living in zoos and wildlife sanctuaries around the globe in order to inspire action to save wildlife.