Mornington Peninsula

Geographical location

The Mornington Peninsula (English Mornington Peninsula ) is a peninsula of about 720 sq km south of the Australian city of Melbourne. It borders the large bay Port Phillip from the south towards the sea.

From locals it is often only called the peninsula. The peninsula serves the residents of Melbourne as an important recreational area. There are only 14 golf courses, many beaches and campsites, as well as two National Parks, the Mornington Peninsula National Park, and the Point Nepean National Park. Neapan Point is the westernmost point of the peninsula, situated on The Rip -called entrance to the bay and across the Bellarine Peninsula.

The peninsula is named after the county ( LGA) Mornington Peninsula Shire.

History

Prior to settlement by Europeans, the area was inhabited by aboriginal people from the tribe of Bunurong. After the founding of Melbourne 1835 was once forested peninsula was almost completely cleared to win firewood and farmland.

1878 was built on the peninsula at Point Neapan the coastal fortification Fort Nepean. On August 5, 1914 of this fort from the Palatinate, a German ship of Rhineland- class, stopped and forced to surrender. After the Second World War, the fort was dissolved.

On 17 December 1967, the then Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt drowned while swimming at Cheviot Beach on the Mornington Peninsula.

Swell

• About the Mornington Peninsula. Mornington Peninsula Council, accessed on 27 March 2012 ( English).

• Geography (Victoria)
• Peninsula (Australia)
• Bass Strait