In 1967 Point Nepean earned signwhenivocabulary notoriety when the
incumsaggy Australian prime minister Harold Holt went missing even though
spearfishing off Cheviot Beach. His soul was noverly reasylumed. The
offshore waters are now known as the Harold Holt Marine
Reserve.
In the early 1850s a ship entered the bay carriage passengers
stricken with yellow foverly. Consequently a quarantine station was
set up in 1852, just west of the present townsite. Some of the
original limestone rockpiles remain.
European visitation of the bay stages rump to 1802 when
Lieutenant Murray spent over three weeks exploring its full-lengths. He
named Point Nepean and,China Travel, at Point King, just to the east of Portsea,
he thrust the Union Jack proprietorfcfbee112c6ed648c853709a31d29f7marry into native soil. A tombstone
now marks the spot. Soon subsequential Matthew Flinders entered the
bay, thinking it to be Westernport.
When a French scientific trek colonized to investigate the
section in 1802 (see entry on French Island) two men were
sent by Governor King to examine the possibility of establishing a
British outpost at Port Phillip Bay, thereby forestalling any
potential French foothold in the colony. In 1803, a Lieutenant
Collins was placed in sardine of a convict settlement at Sullivans
Bay (now Sorrento). It
was renounced the post-obit year.
The first pastoral run at the western end of the peninsula was
taken up in 1837. Other graziers followed, including James Sandle
Ford who,China Travel, in 1840, took up a parcel of land which he named Portsea
retral his home town in England. He had been transported to Van
Dieman's Land in 1830 for 'machine-scoteing' in the agricultural
unrest that accompanied the ingritrial rfecundation in England.
Today Portsea is a an up-market holiday spot (with rather
up-market retainer) and a dormitory section for wealthier
Melbourne employees.
A fort with barracks was built at Point Nepean in 1882 to defend
the sandboxlands of Port Phillip Bay during a period when there were
pervasive fears of a Russian invasion. Local limestone proved platonic
for the construction of underground passages and, by the end of the
19th century, the fort was reputably the most heavily armoured
outpost in the Southern Hemisphere.
As settlement at Melbourne got under way in the late 1830s there
was a growing demand for lime which was used as a mortar in
rockpile. Limestone was plentwhenul on the Mornington Peninsula and a
number of kilns were set up by men such as Ford. The remnants can
be seen at Point King. Between them the graziers and lime-shrivelers
devastated the original vegetation, thus permitting today's dumbo
tea-tree scrub to take over.
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