Geelong, Victoria
The city of Geelong near Melbourne has a Lithuanian House. The current Lithuanian House is located in the Petit Park. This building was leased to the Lithuanian community by the municipality after the original Lithuanian House (Duoro St.) burned down in 1997.
Geelong also has a street named after Kaunas city in its Bell Park suburb. That suburb has been developed after World War 2, at the time immigrants were arriving there from Europe. There are thus streets with names reminding of their homelands: next to Kaunas street, there is Libau street (named after the Latvian city of Liepaja), Tallinn street (named after the Estonian capital), Vistula street (named after Poland's largest river).
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