Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Victoria
Detourmap lists 91 places in Victoria, Australia, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Port Phillip. 76 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 91
- Oldest
- Cooks' Cottage 1755
- Little known
- 76 of 91
- Share of Australia
- 11%
Victoria 91
All 91, best known first.
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5.Wilsons Promontory
Nature · Notable
Peninsula that forms the southernmost part of the Australian mainland and is located in the state of Victoria
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15.1940 Brocklesby mid-air collision
Archaeological · 20th century · Notable
1940 aviation incident in New South Wales, Australia
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40.Mitchell River National Park
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
National park in Victoria, Australia
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42.Burrowa - Pine Mountain National Park
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
National park in Victoria, Australia
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49.Terrick Terrick National Park
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
National park in Victoria, Australia
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50.Dandenong Ranges National Park
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
National park in Victoria, Australia
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51.French Island National Park
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
National park in Victoria, Australia
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55.Eastern Beach
Nature · Hidden gem
Beach and heritage-listed bathing complex in Geelong, Victoria, Australia
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56.Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park
Nature · 21st century · Hidden gem
National park in Victoria, Australia
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58.Twelve Apostles Marine National Park
Nature · 21st century · Hidden gem
Marine national park in Victoria, Australia
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68.Italian National Ossario
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
Ossuary and memorial for Italians interned in World War II in Murchison, Victoria, Australia
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78.Ninety Mile Beach Marine National Park
Nature · 21st century · Hidden gem
Protected area in Victoria, Australia
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79.Point Addis Marine National Park
Nature · 21st century · Hidden gem
Marine national park in Victoria, Australia
Elsewhere in Australia
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Victoria?
Port Phillip. Bay in Victoria, Australia. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Victoria?
91: 85 nature & landscapes and 6 archaeological & historic sites. 76 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Victoria?
Cooks' Cottage, dated to 1755. 31 of the 91 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Victoria here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Victoria if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Victoria is a first-level division of Australia, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.