Coastal Guide To Nature And History 2 Mornington Peninsula S Ocean Shore Western Port Phillip Island French Island

This book is a guide for readers who are curious about what they see along the coast. What are the animals and plants that live along the shore? How were the rock layers in the cliffs formed? What was this place like 150 years ago? Who used this decrepit jetty? The core of the book takes a journey around the coast near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, beginning on Mornington Peninsula’s ocean shore at Point Nepean then heading east towards Flinders. It covers all of the Western Port coast around to San Remo as well as the shores of Phillip Island and French Island. This 320 kilometre shoreline offers a variety of scenery, from the magnificent cliffs of Cape Schanck and Cape Woolamai to the quiet backwaters at the top of Western Port. Just seventy kilometres from Melbourne, French Island can feel almost as remote as the outback, while nearby Cowes on Phillip Island is abuzz in the summer. An introductory chapter gives a brief overview of early history relating to the coast. There are traces of thousands of years of Aboriginal occupation of the area. You can tread in the footsteps of explorers like George Bass and early French navigators, and see the site of Victoria’s second prison settlement at Corinella. You may be interested in remnants of early industries including salt making and granite quarrying, and tourism hot spots of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries like Sorrento and Flinders. Most of the rock outcrops around Western Port are geologically young, but Cape Woolamai is formed from Devonian granite around 370 million years old. The chapter on landforms will point out these granites, as well as the solidified lava of volcanoes and sedimentary rocks deposited by ancient rivers and seas. Western Port is renowned for its wildlife and there are wonderful places where nature thrives. Visitors come to Phillip Island especially to see little penguins, seals and thousands of nesting short-tailed shearwaters. Almost all of the waters of Western Port are protected for migratory wading birds which feed on its vast mud flats. Mushroom Reef Marine Sanctuary, and French Island, Yaringa, Churchill Island and Port Phillip Heads Marine National Parks protect many kinds of sea and shore creatures. Belts of mangroves and wide saltmarshes may seem unappealing at first, but they will reward any efforts you make to appreciate them. The pictures in the chapter on animals and plants will help you to identify the species you are most likely to see.

This book places Australian conditions and urban planning centrally within comparative analysis of planning systems and cultures around the world to address issues including urban governance, climate change, transportation planning, regional development and migration planning. Australian urban conditions and their associated planning responses can and often have been seen as unique or exceptional. They are seldom discussed in the same breath as conditions and associated planning systems internationally. Yet, as well as being somewhat different from those elsewhere in the world, Australian urban conditions and planning responses are also somewhat similar. They are uncanny – strangely familiar yet unfamiliar. In this book, Australian urban conditions, and their planning policies and practices are informally compared and contrasted with those existing internationally. If Australian urban planning policy and practice have had limited influence internationally, the partial familiarity of challenges posed by its urban conditions ensure that Australia is a more important global reference point for scholarship and practice than commonly is appreciated. In this book the authors assert the potential and actual originality of urban planning scholarship arising from the Australian context. It will be useful for students and faculty, planners working in Australia, as well as anyone interested in international planning debates.

On holidays? Walking? Just visiting the coast for a short outing? This book will enrich your appreciation of what you see. Common coastal animals and plants - with lots of photos Landforms - how they are influenced by geology Local history How to get to lesser-known spots

Beaches of the Victorian Coast and Port Phillip Bay provides the first description of all Victorian ocean and Port Phillip Bay beaches. It is based on the results of the Victorian section of the Australian Beach Safety and Management Program. This book has two aims. First, to provide the public with general information on the origin and nature of all Victoria's beaches, including the contribution of geology, oceanography, climate and biota to the beaches, and information on beach hazards and safety. Second, to provide a description of each beach, including its name(s), location, access, facilities, dimensions and the character of the beach and surf zone. The book comments on the suitability of the beach for bathing, surfing and fishing, with special emphasis on the natural hazards. Based on the physical hazards, all beaches are rated in terms of public safety and scaled from 1 (least hazardous) to 10 (most hazardous).

This book is a guide for readers who are curious about what they see along the coast. What are the animals and plants that live along the shore? How were the rock layers in the cliffs formed? What was this place like 150 years ago? Who used this decrepit jetty? The core of the book takes a journey along the coast, beginning at Point Lonsdale at the entrance to Port Phillip, then heading west towards Nelson on the South Australian border. This 420 km shoreline offers spectacular scenery, with the formations around the Twelve Apostles and Port Campbell topping the list. Other wave-battered cliffs such as Cape Otway, Cape Nelson and Cape Bridgewater are also monumental. There are many popular surf beaches along the Surf Coast, while further west you can have long sandy beaches to yourself. An introductory chapter gives a brief overview of early history relating to the coast. There are traces of thousands of years of Aboriginal occupation of the area. Hunters of seals and whales showed the way for the first European invaders in Victoria around Portland. There are remnants of early industries including fishing, timber-getting and tourism: Lorne was already a magnet for holiday-makers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, even though they had to get there by sea. Compared with much of the Victorian coast to the east, the rock outcrops on the west coast are young, but around Cape Otway they are old enough to contain dinosaur fossils from just over 100 million years ago. You will see sedimentary rocks deposited by ancient rivers and seas, and basalt from much more recent volcanoes. Like Phillip Island, western Victoria has penguin colonies and mutton-bird rookeries, and you have a good chance of seeing whales in season. There are distinctive plant communities in heathlands near Anglesea and Port Campbell, and from Portland westwards there are plants which are more common in South Australia. Four Marine National Parks and six smaller Marine Sanctuaries protect diverse animals and plants and their habitats. The pictures in the chapter on animals and plants will help you to identify the species you are most likely to see without diving.

A book that documents and covers 226 waterfalls located in the Otway Ranges, which is in Victoria, Australia. It contains historic articles and accounts. Information on each waterfall is documented including name, location, height, and other important data. Every waterfall has a photo displayed. Historic photos are also included for many of the famous waterfalls in the Otway Ranges. Detailed maps are featured with suggested waterfalls to visit.