PORTSEA, 3944, VIC
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Portsea Nearby Points & Places of Interest
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Description: Portsea Hole is a depression in the seafloor of Port Phillip near Portsea, Victoria, Australia. It is one of six separate areas that comprise the Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park and is a popular site for divers.Parks Victoria. (2006). Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park Management Plan (...)
Elevation: 0ft • Distance: 0.8km
Officer Cadet School, Portsea • [
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Description: The Officer Cadet School, Portsea (sometimes referred to as OCS Portsea) was an officer training establishment of the Australian Army. Established at Portsea in Victoria, Australia, in 1951 to provide training to officer cadets prior to commissioning, for many years OCS provided the Australian (...)
Elevation: 9ft • Distance: 2.1km
Chinaman's Hat (Port Phillip) • [
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Description: Chinaman's Hat is an octagonal structure serving as a shipping channel marker and haul-out for local Brown fur seals, in the South Channel of Port Phillip in the Australian state of Victoria. It is in the Mornington Peninsula Shire, three kilometres east-south-east of Pope's Eye (...)
Elevation: 0ft • Distance: 3.4km
South Channel Pile Light • [
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Description: The South Channel Pile Light is a single-storey octagonal lighthouse in Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia. It was built between 1872 and 1874 to guide ships through the narrow South Channel and was occupied by lighthouse keepers until 1925 (...)
Elevation: 0ft • Distance: 3.7km
Description: HMAS Goorangai was a 223-ton auxiliary minesweeper of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). She was sunk in an accidental collision with MV Duntroon in 1940, becoming the RAN's first loss of World War II, and the first RAN surface ship to be lost in wartime (...)
Elevation: 0ft • Distance: 4km
Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park • [
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Description: The Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park comprises six separate sites, with a combined area of 35.8 km², located in the vicinity of the entrance to Port Phillip, between the Bellarine and Mornington Peninsulas, in Victoria, Australia (...)
Elevation: 0ft • Distance: 4.2km
Description: SS Cheviot was an iron screw steamer which was wrecked near Point Nepean in Victoria, Australia in 1887, with the loss of 35 lives. (...)
Elevation: 0ft • Distance: 4.6km
Cheviot Beach • [
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Description: Cheviot Beach is a beach near Point Nepean in Victoria, Australia. It was named after the SS Cheviot which broke up and sank nearby with the loss of 35 lives on 20 October 1887. On 17 December 1967, Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared, and was presumed drowned, while swimming at the beach (...)
Elevation: 5ft • Distance: 4.6km
Harold Holt • [
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Description: Harold Edward Holt, CH (5 August 190817 December 1967) was an Australian politician and the 17th Prime Minister of Australia. His term as Prime Minister was brought to an early and dramatic end in December 1967 when he disappeared while swimming at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria, and was (...)
Elevation: 5ft • Distance: 4.6km
Pope's Eye • [
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Description: Pope's Eye is the uncompleted foundation for an island fort intended to defend the entrance to Port Phillip in the state of Victoria, Australia. It is less than a kilometre south-west of the former Chinaman's Hat (...)
Elevation: 0ft • Distance: 4.7km
Sullivan Bay, Victoria • [
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Description: Sullivan Bay lies 60 km due south of Melbourne on Port Phillip, one kilometre east of Sorrento, Victoria. It was established as a short-lived convict settlement in 1803 by Lieutenant Colonel David Collins, who named the bay after the Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, John Sullivan (...)
Elevation: 9ft • Distance: 5.2km
Fort Pearce • [
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Description: Fort Pearce is a former defensive facility occupying part of Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia. It was part of a network of fortifications, commanded from Fort Queenscliff, protecting the narrow entrance to Port Phillip. (...)
Elevation: 31ft • Distance: 5.2km
Fort Nepean • [
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Description: Fort Nepean is a former defensive facility occupying part of Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia. It was part of a network of fortifications, commanded from Fort Queenscliff, protecting the narrow entrance to Port Phillip. (...)
Elevation: 28ft • Distance: 5.8km
Description: Point Nepean marks the southern point of The Rip (the entrance to Port Phillip) and the most westerly point of the Mornington Peninsula, in Victoria, Australia. It was named in 1802 after the British politician and colonial administrator Sir Evan Nepean by John Murray in (...)
Elevation: 0ft • Distance: 5.9km
Queenscliff Low Light • [
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Description: The Queenscliff Low Light, also known as the Queenscliff White Lighthouse, is a lighthouse in the township of Queenscliff in the Borough of Queenscliffe, Victoria, Australia, at the eastern end of the Bellarine Peninsula (...)
Elevation: 12ft • Distance: 6.9km
Description: The Mud Islands reserve is located within Port Phillip, about 90 km south-west of Melbourne, Australia, lying 10 km inside Port Phillip Heads, 7 km north of Portsea and 9 km east of Queenscliff. The land area of about 50 ha is made up of three low-lying islands surrounding a shallow tidal 35 ha (...)
Elevation: 0ft • Distance: 7.1km
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum • [
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Description: The Queenscliffe Maritime Museum is a regional maritime museum in the town of Queenscliff at the entrance from Bass Strait to the bay of Port Phillip in Victoria, south-eastern Australia. It lies within walking distance of the Searoad ferry terminal (...)
Elevation: 6ft • Distance: 7.2km
Queenscliff Music Festival • [
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Description: Queenscliff Music Festival is a live music festival held in the town of Queenscliff, located on the Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria, Australia. The festival began in 1997 and is held annually on the last weekend of November. (...)
Elevation: 3ft • Distance: 7.4km
Description: South Channel Fort, also known as South Channel Island, is a 0.7 ha artificial island in southern Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia, 6 km north-east of the town of Sorrento. It was part of a network of fortifications protecting the narrow entrance to Port Phillip (...)
Elevation: 0ft • Distance: 7.5km
Queenscliff railway station • [
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Description: Queenscliff is a railway station on the Queenscliff branch line off the main Warnambool line in Victoria, Australia. The station was originally opened on 21 May 1879, the current station building constructed in 1881 and is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register (...)
Elevation: 6ft • Distance: 7.5km
Description: "The Rip", also known as "The Heads", is a dangerous stretch of water in Victoria, Australia, connecting Port Phillip and Bass Strait. It is the only entrance for shipping into Port Phillip and hence into Melbourne (...)
Elevation: 0ft • Distance: 7.7km
Description: The Bellarine Railway, formerly known as the Bellarine Peninsula Railway, is a volunteer-operated steam-driven tourist railway located in Victoria, Australia. It operates on a 16 km section of a formerly disused branch line on the Bellarine Peninsula between the coastal town of Queenscliff and (...)
Elevation: 0ft • Distance: 7.9km
Queenscliff High Light • [
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Description: The Queenscliff High Light, also variously known as the Black Lighthouse, Fort Queenscliff Lighthouse or Shortland Bluff Light, stands in the grounds of Fort Queenscliff in Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia. It is one of three black lighthouses in the world, and the only one in the Southern (...)
Elevation: 0ft • Distance: 8km
Borough of Queenscliffe • [
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Description: The Borough of Queenscliffe is a municipality (LGA) in Victoria, Australia. It is situated on the south coast, south-east of Geelong on the Bellarine Peninsula south of Swan Bay and next to the Port Phillip Heads, the entrance to Port Phillip Bay from Bass Strait. The Borough has an area of 8 (...)
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Fort Queenscliff • [
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Description: Fort Queenscliff, in Victoria, Australia, dates from 1860 when an open battery was constructed on Shortland's Bluff to defend the entrance to Port Phillip. The Fort, which underwent major redevelopment in the late 1870s and 1880s, became the headquarters for an extensive chain of forts around Port (...)
Elevation: 0ft • Distance: 8km
Queenscliff, Victoria • [
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Description: Queenscliff is a small town on the Bellarine Peninsula in southern Victoria, Australia, south of Swan Bay at the entrance to Port Phillip. It is the administrative centre for the Borough of Queenscliffe. At the 2006 census, Queenscliff had a population of 1,416 (...)
Elevation: 0ft • Distance: 8km
Description: Swan Island is a 1.4 km2 sand barrier island which, with Duck Island and the Edwards Point spit, separate Swan Bay from Port Phillip in Victoria, Australia. It lies close to and north of the town of Queenscliff at the eastern end of the Bellarine Peninsula, and is an official bounded locality of the (...)
Elevation: 0ft • Distance: 8.1km
Description: HMS J3 (later HMAS J3) was a J-class submarine built for the Royal Navy by HM Dockyard at Pembroke Dock in Wales and launched on 4 December 1915. She was transferred to Australia on 25 March 1919, and operated out of Geelong, until she was paid off on 12 July 1922 (...)
Elevation: 0ft • Distance: 8.2km
Point Lonsdale Lighthouse • [
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Description: Point Lonsdale Lighthouse, also known as the Point Lonsdale Signal Station, is close to the township of Point Lonsdale in the Borough of Queenscliffe, Victoria, Australia. It stands at the eastern end of the Bellarine Peninsula, on the western side of the entrance to Port Phillip from Bass Strait, (...)
Elevation: 13ft • Distance: 9.4km
Swan Bay and Port Phillip Bay Islands Important Bird Area • [
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Description: The Swan Bay and Port Phillip Bay Islands Important Bird Area comprises a cluster of disparate sites centred at the eastern end of the Bellarine Peninsula, and the southern end of Port Phillip, in Victoria, south-eastern Australia (...)
Elevation: 0ft • Distance: 9.8km
