Albanvale is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 19 km west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Brimbank. At the 2006 Census, Albanvale had a population of 5576.
The border of Albanvale consists of Station Road, Main Road West, Kororoit Creek, Fairfax Circuit, Concord Circuit and Brimbank Shopping Centre. The 2009 edition of the Melways road map clearly marks Brimbank Central Shopping Centre in Deer Park. The suburb was established in the 1970s.
Flora and Fauna
The Kororoit Creek actually makes up the 700m western border of the suburb. This area once had large healthy populations of native reptiles, including Tiger snake, Eastern Blue-tongued Lizard, Common snakeneck turtle and Eastern brown snake. Unfortunately due to development these species are now rarely seen in the area.
Due to the recent development of the Cairnlea and Burnside estates, on the southern and eastern borders of Albanvale, native species of frogs have taken advantage and have taken up residents in the new wetlands and lakes. The Common Eastern Froglet and even the now endangered Growling Grass Frog have been seen and heard in the new wetlands and around Kororoit Creek.
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