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Location:
Oceania,
Australia, St Kilda
Category:
Marina
cam
Description:
View of the
marina
at St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria
Location Information:
St
Kilda is an inner city suburb of
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km
south from the Melbourne city
centre. Its Local Government Area is
the City of Port Phillip. As of 2006
Census the population has 16,122
people.
St Kilda was named after a schooner
Lady of St Kilda (which moored at
the main beach for much of 1841) by
Charles La Trobe and former ship
master and early settler Lieutenant
James Ross Lawrence.
During
the Edwardian and Victorian eras, St
Kilda became a favoured suburb of
Melbourne's elite, and many palatial
mansions were constructed along its
hills and waterfront. Shortly after
the turn of the 20th century, St
Kilda served a similar function for
Melburnians as did Coney Island to
the residents of New York City and
its history draws an interesting
parallel. Densely populated postwar
St Kilda became Melbourne's
red-light district, home to low-cost
rooming houses. Since the late
1960s, St Kilda was a bohemian area
of Melbourne, home to artists,
musicians and many of the city's
subcultures, including the punks,
LGBT groups and was the birthplace
of Melbourne's Techno scene at The
Pure
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