Geography
The park sits on around 75 acres (300,000 m2) of land in the middle of Blackburn, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria to which it is located about 18km east of Melbourne's Central Business District.
Read more about this topic: Blackburn Lake Sanctuary
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