4PLANET ATLAS / PLACE

Melbourne

City · Australia

About this place

Melbourne is a major coastal city in Australia. 4PLANET ATLAS represents Melbourne as a stable geographic object at Natural Earth reference coordinate -37.818086, 144.97307. The coordinate is used to open the intended map context; it is not an administrative boundary, ecological boundary or claim about conditions across the whole place.

Parent geography: Australia.

Verified geographic hierarchy: Victoria → Australia → Australia and New Zealand → Oceania.

Source identity: Natural Earth NE_ID 1159151565 · ISO AU · Wikidata Q3141 · GeoNames 2158177.

Open Melbourne in ATLAS. The handoff carries the same place slug and reference coordinate so the geographic entry point and interactive map resolve to the same object.

Living Planet Intelligence

Geographic identity is published independently from ecological interpretation. Living Systems, Species, Pressures, Missions, Evidence and Solutions are connected here only when the shared 4PLANET evidence model supports the relationship. Until then, those relationships remain unknown rather than being inferred from the place name.

Related places in the current index

• Australia — Country, Oceania
• Canberra — City, Australia
• Sydney — City, Australia
• Wellington — City, New Zealand

Source and provenance

Geographic source: Natural Earth 1:50m Populated Places v5.1.2. Source feature 1159151565 · upstream file 3fad8f0038ba. Natural Earth data is public domain; terms of use. Source reference checked 2026-10-07.

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Truth boundary: this Place page verifies geographic identity and map context. It does not by itself establish species presence, ecosystem health, pressure, causality or ecological outcome.