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Street · Australia

Collins Street

in Melbourne
Portrait

The eastern end has been called the Paris end since the 1880s, when the gold money planted plane trees and put up verandahs to imitate a boulevard, and the name stuck to a stretch of about three blocks. The western end is banks, and the two ends have been arguing about which is the real street for a century and a half.

This is a street, not an entry in the atlas. It resolves upward to the city that holds it.