Point Nepean National Park Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
national park in Australia
About Point Nepean National Park
Evidence of Australian Aboriginal settlement of the area dates back 40,000 years. Point Nepean was a birthing place for women of the Bunurong People. Limestone was mined from the coastal cliffs from the early days of British settlement and two lime kilns were built around 1840. The Point Nepean Quarantine Station was opened in 1852 and is the second oldest intact quarantine station in Australia. It contains the oldest buildings erected for quarantine purposes in Australia, four of the main hospital buildings (established in 1857), pre-dating the oldest intact quarantine-related structures atNorth Head, Sydney, by sixteen years. The Quarantine Station operated until 1980. Australia's first major oil spill occurred off of Point Nepean in 1903, with the wreck of SS Petriana. It remained Austr
Top Attractions in Point Nepean National Park
Explore the best things to see and do in Point Nepean National Park:
- ★Fort Pearce
- ★Harold Holt Memorial
- ★London Bridge Lookout
- ★Quarantine Station
- ★Sierra Nevada Rocks
Where to Stay in Point Nepean National Park
- 🏨Mercure Portsea
Point Nepean National Park Travel Guide Sections
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