Tullamarine, Victoria
| Tullamarine Melbourne, Victoria | |||||||||||||||
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| Population | 6,541 (2006) [1] | ||||||||||||||
| • Density | Lua error: Unable to convert population "6541 (2006) '"`UNIQ--ref-00000000-QINU`"'" to a number. | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 3043 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 6.9 km2 (2.7 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 17 km (11 mi) from Melbourne | ||||||||||||||
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| State electorate(s) | Yuroke, Niddrie | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Calwell, Maribyrnong | ||||||||||||||
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The Melbourne suburb of Tullamarine, Victoria, Australia, is a collection of recent housing estates and light industry. It is located in the City of Hume.
Generally flat and exposed to the hot northerly winds of Melbourne's summer, as well as cold southerly winds in winter, its most notable feature is the nearby Melbourne Airport. Tullamarine's residential area is contained in a circular loop of the Moonee Ponds Creek, and its western boundary is the Melbourne Airport, originally called the Tullamarine Airport. Tullamarine contains the smaller residential area of Gladstone Park.
The Melbourne to Sydney railway line separates Tullamarine from Airport West to the south.
History
The name is thought to derive form Tullamareena, a young member of the Wurundjeri (who later in 1838 escaped from the first Melbourne gaol, burning it down in the process) according to Reverend Langhorne, an advisor to the first government surveyor, Robert Hoddle.
Tullamarine village was on the Bulla or Lancefield Road, which is now Melrose Drive. It was positioned at the intersection of three municipal boundaries (Broadmeadows, Bulla and Keilor), which came together at Victoria Street and Melrose Drive. The primary school was on land now in the airport (south of Victoria Street) and the post office was near the present day Tullamarine Reserve. Originally Tullamarine extended westwards to the Organ Pipes National Park, and the nearby area bounded by the Maribyrnong River, Jacksons Creek and Deep Creek was called Tullamarine Island because of the difficulties faced by inhabitants in getting across the watercourses during wet weather.
When the land in the Tullamarine Parish was subdivided into farm lots in 1842 only one lot sold, and the rest were sold by selection in 1850. A Wesleyan school was opened in 1855 and two other schools in 1859 and 1864. The Wesleyan one continued until the State primary school was opened in 1884. By 1865 Tullamarine also had a post office and a hotel, and a district population of about 200 persons.
By the 1930s the Tullamarine village also had a church, tennis and football clubs and a progress association. The chief activities were hay production and grazing. During the mid 1950s Tullamarine village became an agricultural and residential township. Later in that decade the Federal Government announced that it was examining a site north and west of the township for a new airport, and land acquisition began in the early 1960s. The school was moved to a new site in 1961.
In 1955 the Village Drive-In was opened with one screen and a capacity of 862 Cars. The drive-in closed in 1984 and the site was developed into housing with streets named after famous film studios such as Forum and Paramount.
Between 1967 and 1970 a freeway to the Airport was built, dividing Tullamarine from its eastern area, which is Gladstone Park, . The part west of the freeway has housing, a large industrial estate and is skirted by the Western Ring Road with interchanges where it crosses the freeway.
Present day
Sharps Road, which runs east-west near the southern border of Tullamarine, was until the late 1980s a single carriageway road. On its southern side was a line of tall pine trees hiding a small pony club. Today, Sharps Road is a bustling dual-carriageway road providing an alternative route from the Western Ring Road to Melbourne Airport.
In 1987 the median house price in Tullamarine was 97% of the median for metropolitan Melbourne, and in 1996 it was 82% of the metropolitan median.
Tullamarine had census populations of 82 (1891), 190 (1921) and 204 (1947). Later population estimates were 385 (1955) and 1,666 (1966). The current population of Tullamarine is 8,758 as at September 2005.
References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Tullamarine (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 2007-09-17.
- ^ Tullamarine, accessed 2 June 2007