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Wantirna is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 24 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, situated inside the City of Knox nearby government region. Wantirna recorded a populace of 13,818 at the 2016 Census. Its name is gotten from the nearby native populace's significance for, "a sputtering stream". The Knox Private Hospital and Westfield Knox strip mall are situated in Wantirna. The EastLink tollway goes through Wantirna with trades at Boronia Road and Burwood Highway.

Wantirna was first settled in 1840 when Mrs. Madeline Scott set up the "Ragged Park" steers keep running on the banks of the Dandenong Creek. Amid the 1870s different pioneers opened up the zone to settlement. In 1912 the requirement for a school to serve the neighborhood wound up obvious in this little yet quickly developing zone; the Finger family gave two sections of land of arrive on the southern side of Mountain Hwy and a timber school building was opened.

The Finger and Fankhauser families were prime movers in the erection of the Methodist Church opened inverse the school in May 1914, and a Parish Hall was based on Burwood Highway in 1924. Wantirna Post Office opened on 1 November 1913, shut in 1977, and revived in 1983. The Wantirna Reserve was given by the gathering in 1925 and a tennis court was worked there in the blink of an eye a short time later. In December 1939, after the flare-up of World War II, West Prussia Road was renamed Wantirna Road.

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