Peterborough (Victoria)

Peterborough is a small town on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia, who lives on tourism and fishing. The village is 235 km from Melbourne and 54 kilometers from Warrnambool, located on the Shipwreck Coast. 2006, the place had 178 inhabitants.

History

The fact that Aboriginal people lived in this area for thousands of years, witness historical waste pits and mussel and snail shells in the field of Massacre Bay in the west of Peterborough. According to oral traditions of the clan of Kirrae - Wurrong where it caused a massacre of Aborigines, with men driven from the cliff and the fleeing women and children were killed in a nearby swamp.

It is believed that the place was, as in 1855 the schooner SS Schomburg am today called Schomburg rock was shipwrecked off the coast. Some of the people who came to see the wreck should have settled there. A post office was, however, only established on 10 April 1890.

In the coastal area of Peterborough more ships were lost over the years, such as 1877, the schooner Young Australia, where no human life was to be deplored, and five years later, one kilometer east of the Newfield, where several men and the captain gave their lives and in the cemetery of Port Campbell were buried. The Falls of Halladale ran in 1908 in heavy fog aground and was lost, including their freight.

Today

Peterborough has two public tennis courts, beaches and a golf course with nine holes at the Schomberg Road.

Peterborough has a caravan park, the Great Ocean Road Touristic Park and Bay of Islands Coastal Park, which are visited by tourists. Far from the village are the Port Campbell National Park, the Twelve Apostles and the London Arch