Corner Inlet, South Gippsland, Australia

The Corner Inlet is a

bay A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a gulf, sea, sound, or bight. A cove is a small, circular bay with a na ...

located south-east of

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in the

South Gippsland South Gippsland, a region of Gippsland in Victoria, Australia, is a well-watered region consisting of low, rolling hills descending to the coast in the south and the Latrobe Valley in the north. Low granite hills continue into Wilsons Prom ...

region of Victoria, Australia. Of Victoria's large bays it is both the easternmost and the warmest. It contains

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and

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s, sheltered from the surf of

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by a complex of 40 sandy barrier islands, the largest of which are

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and Saint Margaret Islands. The inlet is protected as a

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Nooramunga and Corner Inlet Marine and Coastal Parks, and by part of it lying within the

Corner Inlet Marine National Park The Corner Inlet Marine National Park is a protected marine national park located in the South Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. The marine park is situated approximately southeast of Melbourne and contains part of Corner Inlet. ...

. The inlet adjoins

Wilsons Promontory Wilsons Promontory, is a peninsula that forms the southernmost part of the Australian mainland, located in the state of Victoria. South Point at is the southernmost tip of Wilsons Promontory and hence of mainland Australia. Located at nea ...

in the west, extends to Ninety Mile Beach in the east, and supports large numbers of migratory

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s and other birds as well a rich marine flora and fauna.Corner Inlet Marine National Park

History

Corner Inlet lies within the traditional lands of the Brataolong clan of the Gunai nation. In the early 1840s, European settlers moved into the area and established agricultural, mining and forestry enterprises.

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became established in the 1860s. The surrounding land was originally covered by

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which has mostly since been cleared. It has become a popular

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destination for recreational boating and

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Birds

Some of land and water covering Corner Inlet has been recognised by

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as an

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. Containing the most extensive intertidal mudflats in Victoria, it supports over 1% of the world populations of

chestnut teal The chestnut teal (''Anas castanea'') is a dabbling duck found in Australia. It is protected under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974. Taxonomy The chestnut teal was described by the English naturalist Thomas Campbell Eyton in 1838 under ...

, Far Eastern curlew, red-necked stint, pied and sooty oystercatchers and the

hooded plover The hooded dotterel or hooded plover (''Thinornis cucullatus'') is a species of bird in the family Charadriidae. It is endemic to southern Australia, where it inhabits ocean beaches and subcoastal lagoons. There are two recognised subspecies whi ...

. The critically endangered orange-bellied parrot has occasionally been seen there.

References

External links

Nooramunga Marine and Coastal Parks
{{Ramsar sites in Australia Ramsar sites in Australia Protected areas of Victoria (Australia) Bays of Victoria (Australia) Gippsland Important Bird Areas of Victoria (Australia)

History

Birds

See also

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