Point Nepean National Park - Quarantine Station & Fort Nepean
Point Nepean Quarantine Station
Offers a glimpse into the early European history of Victoria. Established in 1852, explore nearly 50 heritage-listed buildings. Learn about life at this once-remote location and the station's critical role in protecting Australia from introduced diseases.
Collection: Quarantine Station comprises of quarantine equipment and machinery; medical artefacts; furniture and uniforms; domestic utensils; maps, photographs, assorted records and interpretive signage and brochures.
Read more on the Parks Victoria website.
Fort Nepean
One of the fortifications that protected Melbourne during World War I and II. Located at the very tip of the Mornington Peninsula, where the calm waters of Port Phillip meet the wild waves of the Southern Ocean, explore the extensive tunnel complex which connects the historic gun emplacements.
Collection: Fort Nepean comprises of remnant military battlements such as gun emplacements, barracks tunnels, ammunition magazines, an engine house and a bomb-proof room, as well as interpretive soundscapes, signage and brochures.
Read more on the Parks Victoria website.
Point Nepean National Park
Point Nepean National Park is part of an Aboriginal cultural landscape in the traditional Country of the Bunurong People. Parks Victoria respects the deep and continuing connection that Bunurong Traditional Owners have to these lands and waters, and we recognise their ongoing role in caring for Country.
Read more on the Parks Victoria website.
Location
Point Nepean National Park, Coleman Road, Portsea 3944 View Map
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Point Nepean National Park, Coleman Road ,
Portsea 3944
Point Nepean National Park, Coleman Road ,
Portsea 3944
Point Nepean National Park - Quarantine Station & Fort Nepean