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    • Source: Geography of Port Phillip

      • Port Phillip, sometimes referred to as Port Phillip Bay, is a large bay in southern Victoria, Australia, 1,930 km2 (476,900 acres) in area, with a coastline length of 264 km (164 mi). The bay is extremely shallow for its size, but mostly navigable. The deepest portion is only 24 m (80 ft), and half the region is shallower than 8 m. Its volume is around 25 km3. The city of Melbourne is located at its northern end, near the mouth of the Yarra River.
      Port Phillip is home to a vast array of geographic features typically found in bays, such as beaches, points, islands and smaller bays, as well as being the drainage point of many major rivers and creeks in Central Victoria. All features here are listed clockwise from the mouth of the Yarra River.


      Beaches



      Port Phillip hosts many beaches, most of which are flat, shallow and long, with very small breaks making swimming quite safe. This attracts many tourists, mostly families, to the beaches of Port Phillip during the summer months and school holidays. Water sports such as body boarding and surfing are difficult or impossible, except in extreme weather conditions. Most sandy beaches are located on the bay's northern, eastern and southern shorelines, while the western shorelines host a few sandy beaches, there mostly exists a greater variety of beaches, swampy wetlands and mangroves. The occasional pebble beach and rocky cliffs can also be found, mostly in the southern reaches. Major beaches include:

      St Kilda Beach - St Kilda
      Middle Brighton Beach - Brighton
      Sandringham Beach - Sandringham
      Ricketts Point/Watkins Bay - Beaumaris
      Mentone Beach - Mentone
      Carrum Beach - Carrum
      Seaford Beach - Seaford
      Frankston Beach - Frankston
      Mothers Beach - Mornington
      Safety Beach - Safety Beach
      Dromana Beach - Dromana
      Rosebud Beach - Rosebud
      Rye Beach - Rye
      Sorrento Front Beach - Sorrento
      Portsea Front Beach - Portsea
      Queenscliff Beach - Queenscliff
      Eastern Beach - Geelong
      Rippleside Beach - Rippleside
      Werribee South Beach - Werribee South
      Altona Beach - Altona
      Seaholme Beach - Seaholme
      Williamstown Beach - Williamstown


      Landforms




      = Islands and reefs

      =
      Long Island
      Wooleys Reef
      Pelican Point Reef
      Hovell Pile
      South Channel Pile (artificial)
      South Channel Fort
      Mud Islands
      Pope's Eye (incomplete fort)
      Chinaman's Hat (artificial)
      Nepean Reef
      Sand Island
      Swan Island
      Stingaree Island
      Mangrove Island
      Rabbit Island
      Tip Island
      Duck Island
      West Channel Pile
      Mudlands
      Great Sand
      Middle Ground
      South Sand
      Popes Eye Bank
      Middle Sand
      William Sand
      West Sand


      = Points

      =

      Point Ormond
      Green Point
      Picnic Point (Sandringham)
      Red Bluff
      Quiet Corner
      Ricketts Point
      Table Rock Point
      Olivers Hill
      Pelican Point
      Shnapper Point (Mornington)
      Linley Point
      Balcombe Point
      Martha Point (Mount Martha)
      Anthonys Nose (Dromana)
      White Cliffs
      Eastern Sister
      Western Sister
      Policemans Point (Sorrento)
      Point King
      Point McArthur
      Point Franklin (Portsea)
      Police Point
      Observatory Point
      Point Nepean
      The Rip
      Point Lonsdale
      Shortlands Bluff (Queenscliff)
      The Cut
      Swan Point (Swan Island)
      Burnt Point
      Edwards Point
      The Bluff
      Indented Head
      Point George
      Grassy Point
      Point Richards (Portarlington)
      Beacon Point
      Point Henry
      Limeburners Point
      Point Lillias
      Point Wilson
      Kirk Point
      Point Cooke
      Point Gellibrand (Williamstown)


      Bays



      Hobsons Bay
      Greenwich Bay
      Beacon Cove
      Elwood Bay
      Hampton Bay
      Half Moon Bay (Black Rock)
      Watkins Bay
      Beaumaris Bay
      Keefers Cove
      Daveys Bay
      Canadian Bay
      Half Moon Bay (Mount Eliza)
      Mornington Bay
      Marina Cover
      Dromana Bay
      Pebble Cove
      Martha Cove
      Capel Sound
      Camerons Bight
      Sullivan Bay
      Sorrento Bay
      Collins Bay
      Weeroona Bay
      Ticonderoga Bay
      Nepean Bay
      The Bend
      The Rip
      Lonsdale Bay
      Stingaree Bight
      Swan Bay (very shallow at low tide)
      Salt Lagoon
      Hood Bight
      Half Moon Bay (Indented Head)
      Outer Harbour
      Corio Bay
      Stingaree Bay
      Steampacket Quay
      Corio Quay
      Limeburners Bay
      The Spit
      Campbells Cove
      Altona Bay
      Shelley Bay


      Confluents


      Yarra River - Newport/Port Melbourne
      Maribyrnong River
      Sandridge Lagoon (now filled in) - Port Melbourne
      Elster Creek - Elwood
      Mordialloc Creek - Mordialloc
      Patterson River - Carrum
      Kananook Creek - Frankston
      Sweetwater Creek - Frankston South
      Kackeraboite Creek - Mount Eliza
      Ballar Creek - Mount Eliza
      Earimil Creek - Mount Eliza
      Gunyong Creek - Mount Eliza
      Manmangur Creek - Mount Eliza
      Caraar Creek - Mornington
      Tanti Creek - Mornington
      Balcombe Creek - Mount Martha
      Hearn Creek - Mount Martha
      Tassells Creek - Safety Beach
      Dunns Creek - Safety Beach
      Sheepwash Creek - Safety Beach
      Coburn Creek - McCrae
      Chinamans Creek - Rosebud West
      The Rip
      Yarram Creek - Swan Bay
      Frederick Mason Creek - St Leonards
      St Leonards Creek - St Leonards
      Cowies Creek - North Geelong
      Cuthbertson Creek - North Shore
      Hovells Creek - Corio
      Little River - Point Wilson
      Werribee River - Cocoroc/Werribee South
      Skeleton Creek - Point Cook
      Laverton Creek - Altona
      Cherry Creek - Seaholme
      Kororoit Creek - Williamstown North


      Other features


      Portsea Hole


      Marine Parks


      Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park


      References

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