Point Nepean
Point Nepean marks the southern point of The Rip and the most westerly point of the Mornington Peninsula, in Victoria, Australia. It was named in 1802 after the British politician and colonial administrator Sir Evan Nepean by John Murray in HMS Lady Nelson.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Maias, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Cape
- Description: point in Victoria, Australia
- Also known as: “Nepean Point”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Nepean and Cheviot Beach.
Fort Nepean
Castle
Photo: Honk squeak, Public domain.
Fort Nepean is a former defensive facility occupying part of Point Nepean, Victoria, Australia. It was part of a network of fortifications, commanded from Fort Queenscliff, protecting the narrow entrance to Port Phillip.
Cheviot Beach
Beach
Cheviot Beach is a beach near Point Nepean in Victoria, Australia. It was named after the SS Cheviot, which broke up and sank nearby with the loss of 35 lives on 20 October 1887.
Point Lonsdale Lighthouse
Photo: Stephen Bain, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Point Lonsdale Lighthouse, also known as the Point Lonsdale Signal Station, is close to the township of Point Lonsdale in the Borough of Queenscliffe, Victoria, Australia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Point Nepean National Park and Queenscliff.
Point Nepean National Park
Photo: Junedee Balili, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Point Nepean National Park is a national park in Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia. There are 70 registered Aboriginal archaeological sites within the Point Nepean National Park.
Queenscliff
Photo: andrewkneebone, CC BY 2.0.
Queenscliff is an historic maritime community perched on a small spit of land in the south-eastern most corner of the Bellarine Peninsula. Located in the Greater Geelong region of Victoria, the town was settled only a few years after Melbourne, and is characterised by its strong European heritage, maritime and seafaring character and its lasting connection to the sea.
Point Nepean
- Categories: point and landform
- Location: Shire of Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-38.30166° or 38° 18′ 6″ southLongitude
144.65272° or 144° 39′ 10″ eastOpen location code
4RH6MMX3+83OpenStreetMap ID
node 9150373599OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
2155546Wikidata ID
Q1542568
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Point Nepean” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Point Nepean”
- Czech: “Point Nepean”
- German: “Point-Nepean-Nationalpark”
- Hebrew: “פוינט ניפין”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Point Nepean”
- Norwegian: “Point Nepean”
- Portuguese: “Point Nepean”
- Portuguese: “Ponta Nepean”
- Swedish: “Point Nepean”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Point Nepean”. Photo: Maias, CC BY-SA 3.0.