Corio Bay

- 38.116666666667144.5Koordinaten: 38 ° 7 '0 "S, 144 ° 30' 0" E

The Corio Bay forms the southwestern part of the Port Phillip Bay in Melbourne metropolitan area in Victoria (Australia). The city is adjacent to the Geelong Corio Bay. The northerly suburb of Corio takes its name from Corio Bay.

Name

As Hamilton Hume and William Hovell entered during their expedition of Hume and Hovell Bay in 1824, they met with the Aboriginal Wautharong who called this bay Jillong and the surrounding land Corayo. These names were common for Corio and Geelong in the 1830s.

Shipping

The Port of Geelong, as measured by the tonnage of the sixth largest in the country, is located on the Corio Bay.

At the time of the first settlers in Geelong a sandbank blocked across the bay from Point to Point Henry the Lilias of ships arriving in the inner harbor. They had at that time out in the bay to create, and the cargo was placed on small boats to Geelong. At low tide it was possible partly to cross the bay to the sand bank on foot.

1853 first navigable canal was built by the sandbar could sail the ships with less than four meters in depth. In the 1860s, this channel has been extended to a depth of six meters. From 1881 a new channel was created. He was named after Lord Hopetoun Hopetoun Channel, who opened it on 20 December 1893.

The management of the channel and the port is the responsibility of the Geelong Harbour Trust, which was established in December 1905. In 1981, the Port of Geelong Authority this Trust. This company was sold by the state in 1996 on TNT Logistics. He was later renamed GeelongPort.

Leisure

The shores of Corio Bay are a popular recreational area for the residents of Geelong. Since the 1930s, the Eastern Beach is a popular beach. Boating is also popular - there are a number of public boat ramps and piers are available.

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