Cape Paterson, the Glossary
Cape Paterson is a cape and seaside village located near the town of Wonthaggi, south-east of Melbourne via the South Gippsland and Bass Highways, in the Bass Coast Shire of Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.[1]
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- Headlands of Victoria (state)
Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.
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Adult education
Adult education, distinct from child education, is a practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained self-educating activities in order to gain new forms of knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values.
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Anderson Inlet
Anderson Inlet (Boonwurrung: Toluncan), sometimes incorrectly referred to as Andersons Inlet, is a shallow and dynamic estuary in South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia where the Tarwin River enters Bass Strait.
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Animal
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia.
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
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Bass Coast Shire
The Bass Coast Shire is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the southeastern part of the state.
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Bass Highway (Victoria)
Bass Highway is an 87 kilometre highway in Victoria, Australia, running along the coasts of Western Port and Bass Strait, between Lang Lang and Leongatha via Wonthaggi.
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Bass River (Victoria)
The Bass River, a perennial river of the Western Port catchment, is located in the West Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria.
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Boonwurrung
The Boonwurrung, also spelt Bunurong or Bun wurrung, are an Aboriginal people of the Kulin nation, who are the traditional owners of the land from the Werribee River to Wilsons Promontory in the Australian state of Victoria.
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Bunurong Marine and Coastal Park
The Bunurong Marine and Coastal Park collectively are a marine park and a coastal park located along the reef and coast of Harmers Haven, Cape Paterson and Inverloch in the South Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia.
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Bunurong Marine National Park
The Bunurong Marine National Park is a protected marine national park located off the coast of Cape Paterson in the South Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia.
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Campsite
Campsite, campground, and camping pitch are all related terms regarding a place used for camping (an overnight stay in an outdoor area).
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Charcoal
Charcoal is a lightweight black carbon residue produced by strongly heating wood (or other animal and plant materials) in minimal oxygen to remove all water and volatile constituents.
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Clan
A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent.
Coast
A coastalso called the coastline, shoreline, or seashoreis the land next to the sea or the line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake.
Collecting
The hobby of collecting includes seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining items that are of interest to an individual collector.
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Crinoid
Crinoids are marine invertebrates that make up the class Crinoidea.
Dinosaur Dreaming
Dinosaur Dreaming is a paleontological site situated near Inverloch, Victoria, Australia.
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Division of Monash
The Division of Monash is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria, which was contested for the first time at the 2019 federal election. Cape Paterson and Division of Monash are Bass Coast Shire.
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Electoral district of Bass
The electoral district of Bass is one of the electoral districts of Victoria, Australia, for the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Cape Paterson and electoral district of Bass are Bass Coast Shire.
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Fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.
Gazetteer of Australia
The Gazetteer of Australia is an index or dictionary of the location and spelling of geographical names across Australia.
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Gippsland
Gippsland (pronounced) is a rural region that makes up the southeastern part of Victoria, Australia, mostly comprising the coastal plains to the rainward (southern) side of the Victorian Alps (the southernmost section of the Great Dividing Range).
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Golf course
A golf course is the grounds on which the sport of golf is played.
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Hospital
A hospital is a healthcare institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment.
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Inverloch, Victoria
Inverloch is a seaside town in Victoria, Australia. Cape Paterson and Inverloch, Victoria are Bass Coast Shire and coastal towns in Victoria (state).
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Invertebrate
Invertebrates is an umbrella term describing animals that neither develop nor retain a vertebral column (commonly known as a spine or backbone), which evolved from the notochord.
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James Grant (navigator)
James Grant (1772 – 11 November 1833) was a Scottish born British Royal Navy officer and navigator in the early nineteenth century.
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Kilometre
The kilometre (SI symbol: km; or), spelt kilometer in American English and Philippine English, is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one thousand metres (kilo- being the SI prefix for). It is the preferred measurement unit to express distances between geographical places on land in most of the world; notable exceptions are the United States and the United Kingdom where the statute mile is used.
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Marine park
A marine park is a designated park consisting of an area of sea (or lake) set aside to achieve ecological sustainability, promote marine awareness and understanding, enable marine recreational activities, and provide benefits for Indigenous peoples and coastal communities.
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Marketplace
A marketplace, market place, or just market, or mart is a location where people regularly gather for the purchase and sale of provisions, livestock, and other goods.
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Melbourne
Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.
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Midden
A midden is an old dump for domestic waste.
Nautical mile
A nautical mile is a unit of length used in air, marine, and space navigation, and for the definition of territorial waters.
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Parks Victoria
Parks Victoria is a government agency of the state of Victoria, Australia.
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Playground
A playground, playpark, or play area is a place designed to provide an environment for children that facilitates play, typically outdoors.
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Primary school
A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary education of children who are 4 to 10 years of age (and in many cases, 11 years of age).
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Ruins
Ruins are the remains of a civilization's architecture.
Scuba diving
Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and therefore has a limited but variable endurance.
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Seashell
A seashell or sea shell, also known simply as a shell, is a hard, protective outer layer usually created by an animal or organism that lives in the sea.
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Seaweed
Seaweed, or macroalgae, refers to thousands of species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae.
Secondary school
A secondary school or high school is an institution that provides secondary education.
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Shaft sinking
Shaft mining or shaft sinking is the action of excavating a mine shaft from the top down, where there is initially no access to the bottom.
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Shellfish
Shellfish is a colloquial and fisheries term for exoskeleton-bearing aquatic invertebrates used as food, including various species of molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms.
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Slipway
A slipway, also known as boat ramp or launch or boat deployer, is a ramp on the shore by which ships or boats can be moved to and from the water.
Smoking ban
Smoking bans, or smoke-free laws, are public policies, including criminal laws and occupational safety and health regulations, that prohibit tobacco smoking in certain spaces.
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Snorkeling
Snorkeling (British and Commonwealth English spelling: snorkelling) is the practice of swimming face down on or through a body of water while breathing the ambient air through a shaped tube called a snorkel, usually with swimming goggles or a diving mask, and swimfins.
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South Gippsland Highway
South Gippsland Highway is a partially divided highway connecting the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne through the South Gippsland region of in Victoria, Australia to the town of Sale.
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Specialist school
Specialist schools, also known as specialised schools or specialized schools, are schools which specialise in a certain area or field of curriculum.
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Starfish
Starfish or sea stars are star-shaped echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea.
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State Coal Mine
The State Coal Mine, also known as State Coal Mine Heritage Area, is a former 20th-century state-owned black coal mine located in Wonthaggi, Victoria, Australia. Cape Paterson and state Coal Mine are Bass Coast Shire.
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State park
State parks are parks or other protected areas managed at the sub-national level within those nations which use "state" as a political subdivision.
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Tarwin River
The Tarwin River is a perennial river of the West Gippsland catchment, located in the South Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria.
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Technical and further education
Technical and further education or simply TAFE is the common name in Australia for vocational education, as a subset of tertiary education.
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Tide pool
A tide pool or rock pool is a shallow pool of seawater that forms on the rocky intertidal shore.
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Trailer park
A trailer park, caravan park, mobile home park, mobile home community or manufactured home community is a temporary or permanent area for mobile homes and travel trailers.
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University of the Third Age
The University of the Third Age (U3A) is an international movement whose aims are the education and stimulation of mainly retired members of the community — those in their third 'age' of life.
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Victoria (state)
Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.
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Whistle
A whistle is a musical instrument which produces sound from a stream of gas, most commonly air.
White people
White (often still referred to as Caucasian) is a racial classification of people generally used for those of mostly European ancestry.
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William Paterson (explorer)
Colonel William Paterson, FRS (17 August 1755 – 21 June 1810) was a Scottish soldier, explorer, Lieutenant Governor and botanist best known for leading early settlement at Port Dalrymple in Tasmania.
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Wonthaggi
Wonthaggi is a seaside town located south east of Melbourne via the South Gippsland and Bass highways, in the Bass Coast Shire of Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. Cape Paterson and Wonthaggi are Bass Coast Shire and coastal towns in Victoria (state).
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Wonthaggi railway station
Wonthaggi was a railway station located in the town of Wonthaggi, Victoria, Australia. Cape Paterson and Wonthaggi railway station are Bass Coast Shire.
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Wreck Beach, Victoria
Wreck Beach is a south-west facing, sandy bay (Bass Coast Beach Number 23) located within the Bunurong Marine Park approximately two kilometres south of the town of Cape Paterson and 132 kilometres (82 mi) south-east of Melbourne via the South Gippsland and Bass Highways, in the Bass Coast Shire of Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.
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See also
Headlands of Victoria (state)
- Cape Conran Coastal Park
- Cape Howe
- Cape Liptrap
- Cape Nelson State Park
- Cape Otway
- Cape Paterson
- Cape Schanck
- Cape Woolamai, Victoria
- Edwards Point (Victoria)
- Moonlight Head
- Point Danger (Portland)
- Point Danger (Torquay)
- Point Hicks
- Point Lillias
- Point Lonsdale
- Point Nepean
- Point Wilson, Victoria
- Rame Head (Victoria)
- South East Point
- South Point (Wilsons Promontory)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Paterson
Also known as Cape Paterson, Victoria.
, State Coal Mine, State park, Tarwin River, Technical and further education, Tide pool, Trailer park, University of the Third Age, Victoria (state), Whistle, White people, William Paterson (explorer), Wonthaggi, Wonthaggi railway station, Wreck Beach, Victoria.