Point Nepean, Victoria Totally Explained

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Point Nepean marks the southern entrance to Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia. It was named after the British politician and colonial administrator, Sir Evan Nepean. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Mornington Peninsula. Its coast and adjacent waters are included in the Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park, while its land area is part of the Point Nepean National Park.

History

Point Nepean was the location of the first Australian shots fired in both World War I (at the German ship Pfalz) and World War II. It is also the location of Cheviot Beach, where the SS Cheviot was wrecked in 1887 and then Prime Minister of Australia, Harold Holt, disappeared on 17 December 1967, believed drowned.
Point Nepean is also the location of a Quarantine Station (established 1852) it's the second oldest intact quarantine station in Australia. It contains the oldest buildings erected for quarantine purposes in Australia, four of the main hospital buildings (established in 1857), pre-dating the oldest intact quarantine-related structures at North Head, Sydney, by sixteen years.

Environment

The coast of Point Nepean contains intertidal reef platforms with high invertebrate diversity as well as subtidal reefs with diverse communities of fish, invertebrates and encrusting organisms such as ascidians, sponges and bryozoans.

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