Corner Inlet

Corner Inlet
A black and white bird with a long orange bill and pink legs walks amid sand and brown vegetation along the edge of a body of water
Corner Inlet is an important site for pied oystercatchers
A map of Victoria, Australia with a mark indicating the location of Corner Inlet
A map of Victoria, Australia with a mark indicating the location of Corner Inlet
Corner Inlet
Location in Victoria
LocationSouth Gippsland, Victoria
Coordinates38°45′57″S 146°20′21″E / 38.76583°S 146.33917°E / -38.76583; 146.33917[1]
Primary inflows
Primary outflowsBass Strait
Basin countriesAustralia
Surface area600 km2 (230 sq mi)
IslandsSnake, Sunday and Saint Margaret
Designated15 December 1982
Reference no.261[2]
Corner Inlet, Ramsar Site with Wilsons Promontory National Park in background

The Corner Inlet is a 600-square-kilometre (230 sq mi) bay located 200 kilometres (120 mi) south-east of Melbourne in the South Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. Of Victoria's large bays it is both the easternmost and the warmest. It contains intertidal mudflats, mangroves, salt marsh and seagrass meadows, sheltered from the surf of Bass Strait by a complex of 40 sandy barrier islands, the largest of which are Snake, Sunday and Saint Margaret Islands.

The inlet is protected as a Ramsar site by the Nooramunga and Corner Inlet Marine and Coastal Parks, and by part of it lying within the 1,550-hectare (3,800-acre) Corner Inlet Marine National Park. The inlet adjoins Wilsons Promontory in the west, extends to Ninety Mile Beach in the east, and supports large numbers of migratory waders and other birds as well a rich marine flora and fauna.[3]

  1. ^ "Corner Inlet (VIC)". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
  2. ^ "Corner Inlet". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  3. ^ Corner Inlet Marine National Park Archived 19 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine