Birrarung Marr, Melbourne area", prepared for the City of Melbourne, 1998 (unpublished). Georgina Whitehead, "Civilising the City: A History of Melbourne’s Public Gardens". State Library of Victoria, 1997. Birrarung Marr, Melbourne Birrarung Marr is an inner-city park between the central business district in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and the Yarra River. It was opened in 2002. The name means 'river of mists' and 'river bank' in the Woiwurrung language of the Wurundjeri people, the Indigenous inhabitants at the time of European settlement of the Melbourne area. The 8 hectare (20 acre) park lies immediately to the south-east of the central business district, between Flinders
West Melbourne, Victoria and retains the "Island" name, despite no longer being an island. West Melbourne, Victoria West Melbourne is an inner suburb of Melbourne, Australia, north-west and adjacent to Melbourne's Central Business District. Its local government area is the City of Melbourne. At the , West Melbourne had a population of 5,515. West Melbourne is bounded by Victoria Street and the Sunbury/Werribee railway lines in the north, Footscray Road, the Moonee Ponds Creek; and by La Trobe Street in the south. Peel Street and the Flagstaff Gardens help form the eastern boundary, with the western boundary defined by the Maribyrnong River and