Nepean Highway

Nepean Highway

St Kilda Road, Brighton Road, Point Nepean Road

Point Nepean Road in Dromana
Map showing a road on the eastern and southern sides of Port Phillip Bay
Route of Nepean Highway between Melbourne and Portsea
General information
TypeHighway
Length90.6 km (56 mi)[1]
GazettedDecember 1913 (as Main Road)[2]
1947/8 (as State Highway)[3]
Route number(s)
  • Metro Route 3 (1965–present)
    (St Kilda–Mornington)
  • B110 (1998–present)
    (Mornington–Sorrento)
  • Concurrencies:
  • Metro Route 25 (1965–present)
    (through Elsternwick)
  • Metro Route 19 (1965–present)
    (through Brighton East)
  • Metro Route 10 (1965–present)
    (through Mentone)
  • C787 (1998–present)
    (Tuerong–Dromana)
  • C788 (1998–present)
    (Dromana–Safety Beach)
Former
route number
Metro Route 3 (1965–1998)
(Mornington–Point Nepean)
Major junctions
North end St Kilda Road
St Kilda, Melbourne
 
South endPoint Nepean National Park
Portsea, Victoria
Location(s)
Major settlementsElsternwick, Moorabbin, Cheltenham, Mordialloc, Chelsea, Carrum, Seaford, Frankston, Mount Eliza, Mornington, Dromana, Rosebud, Sorrento
Highway system
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Nepean Highway is a major highway in Victoria, running south from St Kilda Junction in inner-southern Melbourne to Portsea, tracing close to the eastern shore of Port Phillip for the majority of its length. It is the primary road route from central Melbourne through Melbourne's southern suburbs. This name covers a few consecutive roads and is not widely known to most drivers except for its central section, as the entire allocation is still best known by the names of its constituent parts: St Kilda Road, Brighton Road and Nepean Highway proper,[4] and Point Nepean Road.[5] This article will deal with the entire length of the corridor for sake of completion.

  1. ^ "Nepean Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
  2. ^ "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 14 January 1914. p. 92. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  3. ^ "Country Roads Board Victoria. Thirty-Fifth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1948". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 1 November 1948. p. 7.
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