Melbourne, too, has lost venues, including the Continental in Prahran and the Punters Club in Fitzroy.

Fitzroy Maclean's autobiography Eastern Approaches has a chapter devoted to this trial, which he witnessed while working in Moscow for the British Foreign Office.

The gorge has been formed by the Fitzroy River and the level of the river in the wet season can rise by up to.

Fitzroy Island has been put to many uses by humankind.

The Island has also been home to lighthouses warning ships in the Grafton Passage of the reefs around the island, and a small automatic light on Little Fitzroy Island, just off the north-east point, still serves this purpose.

FitzRoy has been commemorated by the Fitzroy Building at the University of Plymouth, used by the School of Earth, Ocean and Environmental Science.

* Virginia Woolf has a plaque where she lived between 1907-1911 in 29 Fitzroy Square, London, W1

The St Kilda Lawn Bowls Club on Fitzroy Street has a long history and retains its heritage clubhouse building as well as hosts many community events.

The Club is ruled by Anthony Shaw, a descendant of Sebastian Shaw ; he also has an illegitimate son, Trevor Fitzroy.

Scarred tree in Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne | Fitzroy Gardens, the scar is left after a canoe has been cut out of the trunk

The Fitzroy Town Hall has been given over to the regional library and for use as a community space.

The suburb has a light rail station in the north at Fraser Street while the St Kilda Metropol light rail station is just outside the south east border as well as three additional tram superstops along Fitzroy Street

Since the amalgamation of the City of Fitzroy with the City of Collingwood and the City of Richmond in 1994 to form the City of Yarra, the Town Hall has functioned as secondary offices for the City of Yarra.

Fitzroy has a thriving street art community and is also the home of Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces and the Centre for Contemporary Photography.

The tiny suburb of Fitzroy has many cafes.

Fitzroy has also featured in episodes of a number of Australian TV shows, including City Homicide and Rush ( notably in Season 3, where the team shot at Fitzroy Town Hall to commemorate the death of a former colleague ).

Most notably, ARIA award winner Dan Sultan has the song Old Fitzroy, the black and white video for which is shot entirely in Fitzroy, featuring shots of and from Atherton Gardens, as well as shots of a number of Fitzroy pubs.

The City of Yarra also supports a car sharing service, which has several locations in Fitzroy.

Fitzroy North also has some distinctive apartment complexes, mostly built within the last 15 years.

North Fitzroy Primary School has received state media attention for its canteen's healthy menu.

Popular attractions include Riverbank Parklands, a riverfront parkland attraction located on the banks of Fitzroy River ; the Capricorn Coast, the coastal strip between Yeppoon and Emu Park and Great Keppel Island, a large neighbouring island off the Capricorn Coast, the vast majority of which is national park.

The George Hotel built in 1887 on the corner of Fitzroy and Grey streets was also once a large coffee palace.

Albert Park is a large park which spans many suburbs, including St Kilda on Fitzroy Street and hosts a number of sporting fields and a recreational lake.

The middle classes lived in detached villas on large blocks of land, while the working class lived in reasonably comfortable cottages in the northern and western suburbs, and older areas like Fitzroy and Collingwood became slums.

Surrounded as it was by a large number of factories and industrial sites in the adjoining suburbs, Fitzroy was ideally suited to working men's housing, and from the 1860s to the 1880s, Fitzroy's working class population rose dramatically.

John McMahon, twice Mayor of Fitzroy built, firstly in 1886, two townhouses at 53 / 55 Alfred Crescent, and then in 1890 a large and impressive mansion at 75 Alfred Crescent.

After World War 2, large numbers of immigrants ( principally from Mediterranean Europe ) settled in the inner suburbs of Melbourne, including Fitzroy.

This scene was concentrated around the inner suburbs of Fitzroy and St Kilda, and was characterised by large numbers of small bands, more concerned with artistic expression than mainstream success.

The many large rivers of the region such as the Mitchell, Gilbert-Einasleigh, South and East Alligator, Daly, Ord and Fitzroy support populations of the saltwater and freshwater crocodiles, which are by far the best-known animals of the region.

In Australia, a large Bible Christian Church was built in Melbourne c. 1860 at 278 Gore St. Fitzroy ; it still stands but has been converted into a home.

Fitzroy as minor premiers were allowed to challenge St Kilda – the number one ranked team in the finals series at that point – and the two teams played again the following week in the grand final which Fitzroy won 7. 14.

For a time, Archer lived at 27 Fitzroy Square in central London, while Shaw lived at number 29.

Derwent London own about one million square feet of property in Fitzrovia: about one fifth of their total portfolio A number of structural engineering consultants are based in offices on Newman Street and the world headquarters of Arup is on Fitzroy St although they own many of the surrounding buildings ( which are in the process of being redeveloped into modern offices ).

A number of trams services operate though the suburb, including tram route 11 to Collins Street, tram route 86 to Docklands, and tram route 112 to Fitzroy Street.

The Braybrook Club has produced a number of high profile Australian rules football stars including 1982 Brownlow Medalist Brian Wilson ( Footscray, North Melbourne, Melbourne and St Kilda football clubs ), Ted Whitten ( Footscray Football Club ) and Doug Hawkins ( Footscray and Fitzroy Football Club Football Clubs )

Hoping in part to capitalise in part on the bad feeling many Victorian based Fitzroy supporters had about the failed merger with the North Melbourne Football Club, and about the way the merger with the Bears was executed, the Premiers for 1996, North Melbourne, recruited a number of former Fitzroy players, including Pike, in the 1996 draft.

Unfortunately a number of fires throughout history have ravaged the CBD of the town, especially the fire of 1940 which destroyed all of the shops on the southern side of Drayton Street from Fitzroy to Henry Street.

Most of this land was later sold and subdivided or used for the development of various public institutions, but a number of substantial sites were permanently reserved as public parks, including the Carlton Gardens as well as Flagstaff Gardens, Fitzroy Gardens, Treasury Gardens and Kings Domain.

In 1881, the unit was stood up again but this time as the 43rd " Ottawa and Carleton " Battalion of Rifles with the Ottawa volunteer rifle company and a number of other companies located in Fitzroy, Vernon, Metcalfe, Aylwin, Eardley, and Wakefield.

It has a number of sub basins-the Fitzroy Trough-Gregory Sub-basin complex, the Willara Sub-basin, and the Kidson Sub-basin complex.

Like many other Murray-Darling native fish species, western carp gudgeon have crossed the Great Dividing Range through natural river capture events and are found in a number of East Coast drainages, from the Hunter River system in northern New South Wales to the Fitzroy River system in central Queensland.

He is also the AFL / VFL record holder for the number of games played wearing the number 1 jumper – which he wore throughout his 356-game career at both Fitzroy and Sydney.