Pearce Hill

Pearce Hill is a peak in Shire of Mornington Peninsula, Victoria and has an elevation of 39 metres. Pearce Hill is situated nearby to the locality Entrance Beacon, as well as near Popes Eye Light.

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 Nepean Quarantine Station

Park

Photo: Timsabo, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Point Nepean Quarantine Station is a former quarantine station and former military training facility, located on approximately 526 hectares, on Coleman Road in Portsea, on the Mornington Peninsula, in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, in 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.

Pearce Hill

Type: Peak with an elevation of 39 metres
Category: landform
Location: Shire of Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-38.30787° or 38° 18′ 28″ south

Longitude

144.66079° or 144° 39′ 39″ east

Elevation

39 metres (128 feet)

Open location code

4RH6MMR6+V8

OpenStreetMap ID

node 11222117955

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

GeoNames ID

2207563

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