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Manor Lakes, Victoria

human settlement in Victoria, Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ28942986 ↗
Source-derived summary

Manor Lakes is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 33 km (21 mi) south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Wyndham local government area. Manor Lakes recorded a population of 12,675 in the 2021 census.

The suburb was part of Wyndham Vale until March 2016, when it was officially gazetted as its own suburb.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Manor Lakes, Victoria” as human settlement in Victoria, Australia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Manor, Lakes and Victoria.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Manor, Lakes and Victoria providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Manor Lakes, Victoria”, the useful work is to connect “human settlement in Victoria, Australia” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q28942986. Authority coordinates are -37.873, 144.582. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Manor Lakes, Victoria” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.