St Kilda
Bayside beach suburb of sandy foreshore, Victorian-era architecture and a historic seaside amusement park.
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This guide to St Kilda in Melbourne opens with a puzzle: there is no Saint Kilda, not here and not even on the Scottish island the name borrows from. It traces the suburb's two earlier names, the Yalukit-William people's Euro-Yroke and the colonial Village of Fareham, before reaching an 1842 picnic where superintendent Charles La Trobe sat drinking champagne within sight of a small anchored schooner. Even nearby Acland Street, named for that ship's owner, carries a leftover from the same afternoon.
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