Point Nepean

38°18′06″S 144°39′09″E / 38.30167°S 144.65250°E / -38.30167; 144.65250

View of Point Nepean from Queenscliff
Engine House ruins on Point Nepean

Point Nepean (Boonwurrung: Boona-djalang)[1] marks the southern point of The Rip (the entrance to Port Phillip) 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.[2] Its coast and adjacent waters are included in the Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park, while its land area is part of the Point Nepean National Park. The point includes Cheviot Beach on its southern side, notable as the site of the disappearance in 1967 of Australia's then-Prime Minister Harold Holt.

  1. ^ Clark, Ian D. (2002). Dictionary of Aboriginal placenames of Melbourne and Central Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Aboriginal Corp. for Languages. p. 36. ISBN 0957936052.
  2. ^ Flinders, Matthew (1814), A Voyage to Terra Australis, vol. 1, London: G. and W. Nicol, p. 212, entry for 27 April 1802