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Point Lonsdale has a really big Christmas Tree which is lit up around the start of December, when it is being switched on there is a local event. It involves caroling, a market, glow stick sales and much more. It then gathers the community together for a fun filled day/evening. The lights are put up onto the tree by a few local groups. They are winched up the tree using man power. |
Point Lonsdale has a really big Christmas Tree which is lit up around the start of December, when it is being switched on there is a local event. It involves caroling, a market, glow stick sales and much more. It then gathers the community together for a fun filled day/evening. The lights are put up onto the tree by a few local groups. They are winched up the tree using man power. Youths are often sited drinking cask wine around the tree and it often deteriorates into drunken orgies with which Nick Fahey is a key component. |
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==Sport== |
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Golfers play at the course of the Lonsdale Golf Club on Fellows Road.<ref name = "golf">{{Citation | author= Golf Select | title = Lonsdale | url = http://www.golfselect.com.au/armchair/courseView.aspx?course_id=293 | accessdate = 2009-05-11 }}</ref> |
Golfers play at the course of the Lonsdale Golf Club on Fellows Road.<ref name = "golf">{{Citation | author= Golf Select | title = Lonsdale | url = http://www.golfselect.com.au/armchair/courseView.aspx?course_id=293 | accessdate = 2009-05-11 }}</ref> |
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Revision as of 12:56, 18 July 2010
| Point Lonsdale Victoria | |
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  Point Lonsdale | |
| Coordinates | 38°17′S 144°36′E / 38.283°S 144.600°E |
| Population | 2,477[1] |
| Postcode(s) | 3225 |
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| LGA(s) | Mainly Borough of Queenscliffe, with some streets in the City of Greater Geelong |
| State electorate(s) | Bellarine |
| Federal division(s) | Corangamite |
Point Lonsdale is a coastal township on the Bellarine Peninsula, near Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia, and included in the Borough of Queenscliffe. Point Lonsdale is also one of the headlands which, with Point Nepean, frame The Rip, the entrance to Port Phillip Bay. The headland is dominated by the Point Lonsdale Lighthouse. At the 2006 census, Point Lonsdale had a population of 2,477.[1]
History
The traditional owners of this area are the Wautharong people of the Kulin nation. The escaped convict William Buckley is the first known European to have resided in the area, having lived with the local people between 1803 and 1835. A signal station was built in 1854. Permanent European settlement began at Point Lonsdale in the latter half of the 19th century with the construction of a lighthouse in 1863 and the extension of the railway line from Geelong to Queenscliff in 1879. Since settlement numerous ships have been wrecked here on the rocky reefs at the entrance to Port Phillip Bay.
The Post Office opened on 15 January 1902.[2]
The town is named after police officer William Lonsdale[3] and is the birthplace of former Premier of Victoria Thomas Hollway.
Environment
Next to the town is Lake Victoria a shallow saline lake that is part of the Lonsdale Lakes Nature Reserve and an important site for the waterbirds and migratory waders that form part of the population using the Ramsar-listed Swan Bay wetland system.[4]
The coastal rock platforms and adjacent waters are included in the Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park. The intertidal platforms have the highest invertebrate diversity of any calcarenite reef in Victoria, while subtidal areas are characterised by diverse and abundant algal communities as well as by encrusting organisms such as ascidians, sponges and bryozoans.[5]
Along the open coast there are regular sightings of threatened marine mammals such as Humpback and Southern Right Whales.[5]
Other
Point Lonsdale has a really big Christmas Tree which is lit up around the start of December, when it is being switched on there is a local event. It involves caroling, a market, glow stick sales and much more. It then gathers the community together for a fun filled day/evening. The lights are put up onto the tree by a few local groups. They are winched up the tree using man power. Youths are often sited drinking cask wine around the tree and it often deteriorates into drunken orgies with which Nick Fahey is a key component.
Sport
Golfers play at the course of the Lonsdale Golf Club on Fellows Road.[6] The really hectic christmas tree is another amazing feat in Pt lonsdale.'
Gallery
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An aerial view of Point Lonsdale -
Buckleys Cave, used as a shelter by escaped convict William Buckley, beneath the Point Lonsdale lighthouse
References
- ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Point Lonsdale (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 2007-08-05.
- ^ Premier Postal History, Post Office List, retrieved 2008-04-11
- ^ "Point Lonsdale". The Sydney Morning Herald. 8 February 2004. Retrieved 23 April 2009.
- ^ Hewish, Marilyn. (2003). The waterbirds of Lake Victoria, a sub-coastal wetland on the Bellarine Peninsula. Geelong Bird Report 2002: 73-110.
- ^ a b Parks Victoria. (2006). Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park Management Plan. Parks Victoria: Melbourne. ISBN 0-7311-8349-5
- ^ Golf Select, Lonsdale, retrieved 2009-05-11
External links
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