Is a pinsula located south-west of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia, surrounded by Port Phillip, Corio Bay and Bass Strait. The pinsula, together with the Mornington Pinsula, separates Port Phillip Bay from Bass Strait. The pinsula itself was originally occupied by Indigous Australian clans of the Wathaurong nation, prior to European settlemt in the early 19th ctury.
Early European settlemts were initially ctred on wheat and grain agriculture, before the area became a popular tourist destination with most visitors arriving by paddle steamer on Port Phillip in the late 19th ctury.
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And unlike its cousin, the Mornington Pinsula, this number increases only slightly during peak tourist months. However, the pinsula is a growing tourist region with a variety of beaches and seaside resorts and wineries; most of the pinsula is a part of the City of Greater Geelong.
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The area of Geelong and the Bellarine Pinsula was originally occupied by Indigous Australian clans of the Wathaurong nation, prior to European settlemt in the early 19th ctury.
This area was a favorite and extsive camping place for the Wathaurong people. One Wathaurong name for the area is 'Balla-wein' which refers to 'balla' meaning 'elbow' or 'reclining at the elbow'.
The convict William Buckley escaped from the Sullivan Bay settlemt in 1803, and lived among the Wathaurong people for 32 years on the Bellarine Pinsula.
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Leaving behind several employees whilst he returned to Tasmania (th known as Van Diem's Land) for more supplies and his family. In this same year, Buckley surrdered to the party led by John Helder Wedge and was later pardoned by Lieutant-Governor Sir George Arthur, and subsequtly giv the position of interpreter to the natives.
By the 1850s the pinsula was known as ‘the granary of the colony’ and Portarlington became a major player in the wheat industry. Transport was by sea on Port Phillip Bay due to the poor roads. By the 1870s excursion traffic to the pinsula commced, with tourists travelling from Melbourne by paddle steamers to joy fishing and swimming by the bay, with the coastal towns being major holiday resorts.
In rect years with improved roads the pinsula has become popular with people employed in Geelong, with population growth in towns such as Leopold, Drysdale and Ocean Grove. The Seachange demographic phomon has also led to increased growth.
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Ironically, the Australian TV series SeaChange was filmed at various locations on the pinsula, particularly at Barwon Heads, which helped promote tourism on the pinsula. The pinsula is showing signs of vironmtal consciousness and attitudes towards sustainability, much the same as the Mornington Pinsula.
The Bellarine Pinsula is a gtly to moderately undulating landform that protrudes in an east and north-easterly direction into Port Phillip. The pinsula is gerally considered to begin its protrusion betwe the town of Torquay and east of Geelong. It is surrounded by Corio Bay and the Outer Harbour to the north, Port Phillip to the north-east and east, The Rip to the south-east and Bass Strait to the south.
The pinsula's eastern regions host several bays and islands such as The Rip, Lonsdale Bay, Swan Bay, Swan Island, Rabbit Island and various other small islands. The ctral and north-eastern regions host a gtly undulating topography with no major rivers, mountains or significant landforms. The most distinct feature in the western region of the pinsula is the Barwon River which flows through a series of large lakes and extsive wetlands before emptying into Bass Strait at Barwon Heads.
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The uplifted block of the Bellarine Pinsula forms a very weakly dissected undulating plain of low elevation, less than 150m. Drainage from the remnant basalts of the Palaeoge Older Volcanics forms a vaguely radial pattern on the elevated plateau. A narrow strip of deeply weathered Cretaceous Otway Group rocks occurs in outcrop along the southern edge of the Curlewis Monocline, which forms the northern boundary of the pinsula. Landslides and narrow gullies have formed along the northern edge of the monocline. A sheet of marine sands of Late Neoge age covers the southern portion of the uplifted Bellarine block.
The majority of soils on the pinsula consist of grey-brown sedimtary sandy loams, overlaying medium to heavy textured clay. The Bellarine Hills are a significant variation with heavy black self mulching clay loams being well suited to intsive crop production.
Much of the native vegetation throughout the pinsula has be cleared for agriculture, notable exceptions being areas of land around Swan Bay, parklands in Portarlington, coastal areas along the Barwon Coast and some small remnant pockets around the Barwon River lakes and wetlands, many of these last remaining areas are protected or included in parklands. The largest area of original native woodland vegetation remaining on the Pinsula lies in the 143 hectare Ocean Grove Nature Reserve.
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The pinsula contains several significant wetlands, many of which form part of the Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Pinsula Ramsar Site and are of international significance for the protection of waterbirds and the critically dangered orange-bellied parrot. They are also recognised by BirdLife International in the Bellarine Wetlands and Swan Bay and Port Phillip Bay Islands Important Bird Areas.
The pinsula is covered by two local governmt areas with a population of approximately 55, 337. There were around 25% over sixty years old which is significantly higher than the national average of 18%.
The Borough of Quescliffe, situated on the pinsula is the last remaining borough left in Victoria, and was the only local governmt area not changed in the mass Victorian municipality reorganisation of 1993 acted by th Liberal Premier Jeff Knett. The remainder of the pinsula is part of the City of Greater Geelong, having be part of the Rural City of Bellarine before this time. The pinsula is also one of the parishes of the County of Grant, one of the Cadastral divisions of Australia.
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Black Rock on the southern coast (near Breamlea) is the location of the main ocean outfall for Geelong's sewage. Oped in 1915,
Initially the sewage was left untreated before being discharged into the ocean. A primary filtration system was installed in the 1970s, and in the 1980s the currt plant was built with an upgraded filtration system, along with a 1.2 kilometre long ocean outfall.
The plant was upgraded in 1997, with secondary filtration introduced, and a pipeline installed to transport recycled water to the flower farm at Torquay.
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A 60 kW capacity wind gerator is located on Black Rock Road in Breamlea. Erected in November 1987 by the th State Electricity Commission of Victoria and the Victorian Solar ergy Council (now ergy Victoria) as a demonstration, it was sold in 1994 to the Alternative Technology Association of Melbourne. Electricity production ceased at 1200hrs on 17 May 2003 due to an electrical gerator burn-out, caused by moisture, salt, and electrical flash-over.While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions.
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Port Phillip Bay, inlet of Bass Strait on the south-central coast of Victoria, Australia, extending approximately 30 miles (50 km) north-south and 25 miles (40 km) east-west. The large metropolitan area of Melbourne, the state capital, is located at the head of the bay. Rivers emptying into the bay include the Little, Werribee, and Yarra.
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The bay’s entrance, known as “the Rip” (1.75 miles [2.8 km] wide), between Points Lonsdale to the west and Nepean to the east, leads into a navigation channel 3, 600 feet (1, 100 metres) wide and 45 feet (14 metres) deep, with access northward to Hobsons Bay and westward to Corio Bay (the harbour of Geelong). It was visited in 1802 by Lieutenant John Murray of the Royal Navy. Murray named it Port King to honour Captain Philip Gidley King, then the governor of New South Wales, of which Victoria was then a part. It was later renamed for Captain Arthur Phillip, the first (1788–92) governor of New South Wales.
A number of settlements took form around the bay beginning in the 1830s. Among them were what would become Melbourne, Hobsons Bay, and Geelong. In the 20th century the booming ports around Port Phillip Bay made it one of the country’s largest shipping areas. The city of Port Phillip, located on the northern shore of the bay, was created in 1994 by the merger of the municipalities of South Melbourne, Port Melbourne, and St. Kilda. Pop. (2006) Port Phillip local government area, 85, 096; (2011) Port Phillip local government area, 91, 372.