Deborah PickettSep 28, 2023
Today's #GeoWeirdness subject is the Melbourne suburb of Mount Waverley. Founded on the lands of the Wurundjeri people, Mount Waverley 3149 is Australia's most rectilinear postcode, almost exactly a perfect 2-mile by 3-mile rectangle, thanks to the Mile Grid. (1/12) #PirateGeoWeirdness #MountWaverley
Show threadDeborah PickettSep 28, 2023
The Mile Grid, designed by Robert Hoddle in 1837, is ubiquitous in Melbourne's southeast suburbs. Its tilt of 8° east of north crystallizes the direction of magnetic north around 1900. (2/12) #PirateGeoWeirdness #MountWaverley
Show threadDeborah PickettSep 28, 2023
The Mile Grid is different to the well-known Hoddle Grid of the Central Business District, which runs 20° west of north, to align with the Yarra River. (3/12) #PirateGeoWeirdness #MountWaverley
Show threadDeborah PickettSep 28, 2023
Both grids are visible in Geoff Boeing's 2018 survey of street directions of world cities. https://geoffboeing.com/2018/07/city-street-orientations-world/ (4/12) #PirateGeoWeirdness #MountWaverley
City Street Orientations around the World – Geoff Boeing

Show threadDeborah PickettSep 28, 2023
Named for the Waverley series of historical novels by Sir Walter Scott, the sprawling area was split into Mount Waverley and adjacent Glen Waverley in 1905. "Mount" Waverley is a gentle hill that not even I work up a sweat climbing. The suburb's highest point is about 140 m above sea level. (5/12) #PirateGeoWeirdness #MountWaverley
Show threadJoanna HolmanMay 7, 2025
@futzle I used to find it curious that mount Waverley and glen Waverley are separated by another suburb (Syndal)
Show threadJulien GoodwinMay 7, 2025
@joannaholman @futzle my mum lived in glen Waverley, my dad in Mount Waverley, and I went to Syndal South primary school
Show threadDeborah PickettMay 7, 2025
@LapTop006 @joannaholman Very Goldilocks areas.
Show threadAJ SadauskasMay 7, 2025
@futzle @LapTop006 @joannaholman Meanwhile, Waverley Park and Waverley Gardens — two other Waverley suburbs that AusPost doesn't recognise — are both technically in Mulgrave...
Show threadJulien Goodwin
@aj @futzle @joannaholman to be fair, that's a shopping center and a football ground, which did become a subdivision after it was sadly retired from AFL service (I was actually at the final game)
May 7, 2025 at 12:55pmWeb
Show threadAJ SadauskasMay 7, 2025
@LapTop006 @futzle @joannaholman Me too 😁

Hawthorn vs the Sydney Swans.

And it was a huge car park that got redeveloped.

Just for comparison, I've attached a map of Waverley Park at the same scale as Clifton Hill, and they're roughly the same area!

Because it's cut off from the rest of Mulgrave by the Monash Fwy and Wellington Rd, it basically functions as its own discrete suburb as well.

And also, despite having Waverley in its name, it's not actually in (Glen or Mount) Waverley. Or even next to them — all of Wheeler's Hill and Brandon Park is in the way.
Show threadJulien GoodwinMay 7, 2025
@aj @futzle @joannaholman mhmm, good match if I recall, not sure if that was the one where Hawthorn came back from being down by some crazy margin at half time to win
Show threadStacey CampbellMay 7, 2025
@aj @LapTop006 @futzle @joannaholman The coldest night of my life was when my country Catholic school came down to Waverley in buses in winter 1979 to watch our football team compete against St Bede's. Windy, cold, wet. We absolutely froze our bums off.
Show threadJulien GoodwinMay 7, 2025
@stacey_campbell @aj @futzle @joannaholman some year in the early 90s my mum got dragged in to being part of the production of the Mordialloc carols by candelight. The weather on the actual day was about as bad as it could possibly be without actually being a deluge of rain, amazingly cold for December, and I also remember the food situation was a mess too which sure didn't help.