NAME

LOCATION

WHAT DO WE KNOW?

Twelve Apostles

38° 42’ S,
143° 08’ E

Originally Sow and Pigs (Piglets) islands, but when were they renamed and by whom?

Point Ronald

38° 42’ S,
143° 09’ E

Who was Ronald?

Freetrader Point

Shown on Murray's 1877 map. There may be a link with a ship called Freetrader, built in Hobart in 1850, and wrecked at the mouth of Hopkins River in 1894.

Maudes Point

Shown on Murray's 1877 map, but who was Maude, and when was this name applied?

Sutherland Beach

Shown on Murray's 1877 map, and probably named after a local settler.  But who and when?

Campbell Cove

37° 57’ S,
144° 44’ E

Possibly named after Captain Alexander Campbell, who was Harbourmaster in Port Phillip in 1836.

Boag Rocks

38° 27’ S,
144° 51’ E

Origin uncertain: James Robertson Boag had a dairy and probably a guest house in Dromana in the 1870s (Janet Smith, Nepean Historical Society), but there is no evidence of a link between him or his family and this rocky headland beside Gunnamatta Beach.

Cobb Bluff

38° 27’ S,
145° 25’ E

It was shown as Watsons Bluff on an 1850 map, but who gave it this name, when and why?

Leonard Point,
Leonard Bay

39° 02’ S,
146° 18’ E

Who was Leonard, and when was this name applied?

St Margaret Island

38° 38’ S,
146° 50’ E

There is said to be a link with St Margaret’s Bay west of Halifax in Nova Scotia, but this is obscure (Blake 1977). It was known by this name in the 1850s when W.E and A.S. Laing held it as a sheep run (Melva James, Yarram &  District Historical Society), but what was its origin?

Dock Inlet

37° 47’ S,
148° 50’ E

There is no evidence of a dock here; was it originally Duck Inlet or Dog Inlet?