Capel Sound, Victoria
| Capel Sound (formerly Rosebud West) Melbourne, Victoria | |||||||||||||||
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  Capel Sound (formerly Rosebud West) Location in metropolitan Melbourne | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 38°22′37″S 144°52′19″E / 38.377°S 144.872°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 4,930 (2016 census)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| • Density | 1,072/km2 (2,780/sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 3940 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 4.6 km2 (1.8 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | Shire of Mornington Peninsula | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Nepean | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Flinders | ||||||||||||||
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Capel Sound (formerly Rosebud West) is a suburb located on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia. Its local government area is the Shire of Mornington Peninsula.
A distinguishing landmark feature of Capel Sound is the Tootgarook Swamp, the largest example left of a shallow freshwater marsh in the Port Phillip bay region. The swamp is also described by Melbourne water as a ground water dependent ecosystem. The 381 hectare swamp is found on the lower section of the Mornington Peninsula, called the Nepean Peninsula in Victoria, Australia. A large portion of the Tootgarook Swamp is zoned as residential and industrial, with roughly half of the actual swamp inside the green wedge and half within the urban growth boundary.[2]
Rosebud West Post Office opened on 12 January 1938 and closed around 1996.[3]
On 15 September 2016 Mornington Peninsula Shire Council officially changed the name from Rosebud West to Capel Sound.[4]
References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Rosebud West (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
- ^ http://www.savetootgarookswamp.org/index.html
- ^ Premier Postal History, Post Office List, retrieved 11 April 2008
- ^ Harding, Allison (13 September 2016). "It's official: Rosebud West loses 'stigma' name and becomes Capel Sound". Mornington Peninsula Leader. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
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