Everything about Point Lonsdale Victoria totally explained
Point Lonsdale is a coastal township on the
Bellarine Peninsula, near
Queenscliff,
Victoria,
Australia, and included in the
Borough of Queenscliffe. Point Lonsdale is also one of the headlands which, with
Point Nepean, frame
The Rip, the entrance to
Port Phillip Bay. At the 2006
census, Point Lonsdale had a population of 2,477.
History
The traditional owners of this area are the
Wautharong people of the
Kulin nation. The escaped convict
William Buckley is the first known European to have resided in the area, having lived with the local people between 1803 and 1835. A signal station was built in
1854. Permanent European settlement began at Point Lonsdale in the latter half of the 19th century with the construction of a
lighthouse in 1863 and the extension of the railway line from
Geelong to
Queenscliff in 1879. Since settlement numerous ships have been wrecked here on the rocky reefs at the entrance to
Port Phillip Bay.
The town is named after police officer William Lonsdale and is the birthplace of former Premier of Victoria
Thomas Hollway.
Environment
Next to the town is
Lake Victoria a shallow saline lake that's part of the Lonsdale Lakes Nature Reserve and an important site for the
waterbirds and
migratory waders that form part of the population using the
Ramsar-listed
Swan Bay wetland system.
The coastal rock platforms and adjacent waters are included in the
Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park. The intertidal platforms have the highest invertebrate diversity of any
calcarenite reef in Victoria, while subtidal areas are characterised by diverse and abundant algal communities as well as by encrusting organisms such as
ascidians,
sponges and
bryozoans.
Along the open coast there are regular sightings of threatened marine mammals such as
Humpback and
Southern Right Whales.
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