Gondola · Australia
Merritts
Merritts is a gondola near Australia. It climbs 297 m over 1.34 km, from 1,367 m to 1,664 m above sea level. Between its 17 pylons, the cable runs up to about 36 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
14/100 · Gentle
By the numbers, Merritts is scarier than 14% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 5 of 5 in Australia.
- Highest above the ground: about 36 m, as high as a 12-storey building, 714 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 187 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 22°.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Merritts is in Australia, at 1,367 m above sea level (36.50358° S, 148.30405° E). From there it runs 1.34 km up to the top station at 1,664 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Capacity
- 2,000 people per hour
- Per cabin
- 8 people
- Ride time
- about 6 min
Pylon heights are estimated (30 m), so the height above ground is approximate. Terrain: Copernicus GLO-30, 30 m. Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. Data as of 2026-10-31.