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Approximate Wreck Site | PS ‘Tommy Norton’ c 1877 – Ninety Mile Beach, Gippsland, VIC

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Category: Historical POI's 1861-1880, Historical, and Site | Shipwreck
Prior to the construction of The Entrance at Lakes Entrance, Victoria in 1889, the Gippsland Lakes would naturally fill to a high level before the pressure caused by the build up of water would be intense enough to break through the Ninety Mile Beach sand dunes which are continuously replenished by the ocean surf of Bass Strait.  In the early years of Read more…

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The Entrance c 1889 – Lakes Entrance, Gippsland, VIC

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Category: Breakwater, Canal | Lock, Historical POI's 1881-1900, Historical, Infrastructure | Landmark, and Site | Infrastructure
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Located some 320 km east of Melbourne, the Gippsland Lakes are the largest inland lake system in Australia, stretching over some 400 square kilometres.  The network of shallow lakes, marshes and lagoons are collectively fed by the Avon, Thomson, Latrobe, Mitchell, Nicholson and Tambo Rivers. Basically, the lakes system is a culmination of river deltas partitioned from the ocean by a long, relatively narrow coastal dune known Read more…