Location
East Geelong adjoins Geelong city and extends from Corio Bay through Eastern Park and south towards the Eastern Cemetery.

Description
East Geelong is a much sought-after residential area with large public open spaces. The enormous Eastern Park runs down to the waterfront and is home to Geelong's historic Botanic Gardens. The park also has three ovals and three other sports fields, and neighbours the nine-hole East Geelong Golf Club, laid out in 1923. Two main roads and bus routes traverse the small suburb but the many enclosed courts and avenues give East Geelong privacy. East Geelong has local shopping centres at the intersections of Garden Street and Ormond Road and Breakwater and St Albans roads. It also offers quick access to the city centre.

History
To the north of the suburb, Eastern Park extends to Limeburners Point, Corio Bay. The point has been mined for limestone and marble since Geelong was settled, altering the foreshore. Its kilns, built in 1841, are on the Victorian Heritage Register. Eastern Park was made a reserve in 1848 and in the late 1850s, a skilled curator, Daniel Bunce, laid out Geelong's Botanic Gardens. (Bunce accompanied Leichhardt's expeditions as a naturalist and later married John Batman's youngest daughter.) The Eastern Cemetery, to the south-east of the suburb, was Geelong's first and has headstones dating back to 1839, a year after the town survey.