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Melbourne's 'Chinatown' is located within the Melbourne Central Business District and is centred around the eastern end of Little Bourke St. It extends between the corners of Swanston and Exhibition Streets.

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History

Other Chinatowns

Reference

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History

Melbourne Chinatown was established in the Victorian gold rush in 1854 and is notable as the oldest Chinatown in Australia^[1], the oldest continuous Chinese settlement in Australia and the longest continuously running Chinatown outside of Asia (San Francisco Chinatown was built earlier during the California gold rush, but rebuilt and repopulated after it was destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake)^[2].

Melbourne Chinatown is also home to Sun Loong (New Dragon) the world's longest Chinese dragon at more than 100 metres in length.^[3]. The world's oldest Imperial (five-clawed) dragon is in Bendigo, Victoria.

Other Chinatowns

Other than the original Chinatown in the CBD, several newer Chinatowns or newer Chinese communities are found in suburbs of Melbourne, included the Box Hill (Carrington Road), Richmond (Victoria Street), Springvale and Glen Waverley.

Reference

1. Multicultural communities - Chinese City of Melbourne
2. Rebuilding Chinatown After the 1906 Quake
3. http://www.goldendragonmuseum.org/dragons.html

External links

★ Chinatown Precinct Association website

★ Museum of Chinese Australian History