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FISHERMAN’S BEND | |||||||||
Description | First motorbike event was on August 1948, while first car event was in 1949 | ||||||||
Location | Port Melbourne VIC - Victoria | ||||||||
Location | Approx 5 km - 3 mi West of Albert Park, using a World War II airfield now built over. In the same are now there is Go Kart Club Of Victoria | ||||||||
Latitude - Longitude | - 37°50'08" +144°54'26" -37.835556 144.907222 | ||||||||
UTM Coordinates | X = 315839.913 - Y = 5810366.567 - Zone 55H | ||||||||
Aerial photo / Map (*) | OpenStreetMap - Google Maps - Bing Maps - Flash Earth - Wikimapia - NearMap | ||||||||
Altitude AMSL | 1 m - 3 ft | ||||||||
Inauguration | August 1948 | ||||||||
Closing | 1962 | ||||||||
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Fisherman’s Bend | |||||
Description | |||||
Years | 1948 | ||||
Direction | Clockwise | ||||
Proposal | NO | ||||
No longer operational | YES | ||||
Car Circuit | |||||
Motorbike circuit | YES | ||||
Type | Airfield course | ||||
Inauguration | August 1948 | ||||
Closing | 1948 | ||||
Last update of this page | December 19th 2007 | ||||
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Fisherman’s Bend | |||||
Description | |||||
Years | 1949÷1956 | ||||
Direction | Clockwise | ||||
Proposal | NO | ||||
No longer operational | YES | ||||
Car Circuit | YES | ||||
Motorbike circuit | YES | ||||
Type | Airfield course | ||||
Inauguration | 1949 | ||||
Closing | 1956 | ||||
Last update of this page | December 19th 2007 | ||||
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length | 3380 m | 11088 ft | 2.1 mi | (1) |
Fisherman’s Bend | |||||
Description | |||||
Years | 1957÷1962 | ||||
Direction | Clockwise | ||||
Proposal | NO | ||||
No longer operational | YES | ||||
Car Circuit | YES | ||||
Motorbike circuit | YES | ||||
Type | Airfield course | ||||
Inauguration | 1957 | ||||
Closing | 1962 | ||||
Last update of this page | December 19th 2007 | ||||
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length | 3058 m | 10032 ft | 1.9 mi | (1) |
Updates | |||||||
Date | Track layout | Years | Description by | Map by | Thanks to | Note | |
December 19th 2007 | Guido de Carli | Lorenzo Tommasi | New | Description without map | |||
Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list |