Flinders Street, Melbourne Flinders Street, Melbourne Flinders Street is a notable street in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Running roughly parallel to the Yarra River, Flinders Street forms the southern edge of the Hoddle Grid. It is exactly 1 mi (1.609 km) in length and one and a half chains (99 ft, 30 m) in width. It is named for the explorer Matthew Flinders, erroneously credited with discovering Port Phillip at the time of its naming. It extends eastwards as far as Spring Street and the Treasury Gardens and westwards past Batman's Hill to the Melbourne Docklands. As the closest street to the river, 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