Launching Place
- Local Government Area
- Yarra Ranges
- Postcode
- 3139
- Population
- 2,495
- Area
- 36.12 km²
- Coordinates
- -37.7780, 145.5762
- Data
- Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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About Launching Place
Launching Place is a town in the Yarra Ranges of Victoria, about 55 km east of Melbourne on the Warburton Highway between Woori Yallock and Yarra Junction. Its name is said to come from the point on the Yarra River where freshly cut logs were launched into the water to be floated downstream to Melbourne sawmills. From the 1840s the Ewart family ran a store, hotel and post office here, and the town gained its own railway station when the Lilydale-Warburton line opened in 1901; the line is now the Lilydale-Warburton Rail Trail.
Nearby localities
- Woori Yallock 4 km
- Yarra Junction 5 km
- Don Valley 5 km
- Seville East 6 km
- Mount Toolebewong 7 km
- Wesburn 7 km