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  2. Port Victoria, South Australia - Wikipedia

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    Port Victoria was visited by English travel author Eric Newby in 1939, while he was crew in the 4-masted barque Moshulu.Sailors on the Moshulu, mostly Scandinavian in origin, referred to Port Victoria as "Port Veek", and it was their second Australian port-of-call after Port Lincoln; Newby did not have many complimentary things to say about the town, but he states that the inhabitants were ...

  3. Point Hicks - Wikipedia

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    Point Hicks (formerly called Cape Everard), is a coastal headland in the East Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia, located within the Croajingolong National Park. The point is marked by the Point Hicks Lighthouse that faces the Tasman Sea. The traditional custodians of the land surrounding Point Hicks are the Australian Aboriginal Bidawal ...

  4. Point Lonsdale - Wikipedia

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    Point Lonsdale is a coastal township on the Bellarine Peninsula, near Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia. The town is divided between the Borough of Queenscliffe and the City of Greater Geelong. Point Lonsdale is also one of the headlands which, with Point Nepean, frame The Rip, the entrance to Port Phillip. The headland is dominated by the Point ...

  5. Western Port Highway - Wikipedia

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    Western Port Highway was originally a single carriageway road called Lyndhurst Road in the 1960s, renamed some time after. The passing of the Country Roads Act of 1958 [5] (itself an evolution from the original Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924 [6]) provided for the declaration of State Highways and Main Roads, roads partially financed by the State government through the Country Roads Board ...

  6. French Island (Victoria) - Wikipedia

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    French Island (Victoria) French Island (Boonwurrung: Bellarmarin, Woone, or Jouap) [3] sits within a tectonic depression known as the Western Port sunkland, [4] and is the largest coastal island of Victoria, Australia. In 1997, about 70% of the island was declared the French Island National Park, administered by Parks Victoria, and was listed ...

  7. Portland, Victoria - Wikipedia

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    32.6 in. Portland (/ ˈpɔːrtlənd / PORT-lənd) [1] is a city in Victoria, Australia, and is the oldest European settlement in the state. It is also the main urban centre in the Shire of Glenelg and is located on Portland Bay. As of the 2021 census the population was 10,016, [2] increasing from a population of 9,712 taken at the 2016 census.

  8. Henty Highway - Wikipedia

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    Henty Highway is a rural highway in western Victoria, Australia, linking Lascelles in the Wimmera region, to Portland on the state's soith-western coast. [5] It was named in honour of Edward Henty, a British colonist regarded as the first permanent European settler of the Port Phillip District (in what later became the Colony of Victoria), in the town eventually named Portland.

  9. Elizabeth Island (Victoria) - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth Island (Victoria) /  38.4168000°S 145.369000°E  / -38.4168000; 145.369000. Elizabeth Island lies just south of French Island in Western Port, Victoria, south-eastern Australia, and just north of Phillip Island. It is over 65 acres (26 hectares) in area and is an unincorporated area [ 1] of Victoria, one of the few privately ...