Wilsons Promontory
The southernmost point of the Australian mainland, a granite peninsula protected as a national park. Its beaches include Squeaky Beach, named for the sound its fine quartz sand makes underfoot, and wombats wander through the camping ground at Tidal River.
- Where
- Tidal River, Victoria, Australia
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- -39.0986, 146.3866
Get the Wilsons Promontory stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Wilsons Promontory. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Victoria volume with your photos and a note.
Near Wilsons Promontory
Phillip Island 120 km
An island about 125 kilometres south-east of Melbourne, named after Governor Arthur Phillip by the explorer George Bass in 1798. At dusk little penguins come ashore in their hundreds at Summerland Beach, and the island also has a motorcycle Grand Prix circuit.
Puffing Billy Railway 160 km
A narrow gauge steam railway through the forested foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, one of the Victorian Railways' early 20th century lines. Passengers famously sit with their legs dangling out of the open carriage windows as it climbs over a timber trestle bridge.
Dandenong Ranges National Park 168 km
Tall mountain ash forest and fern gullies about 35 kilometres east of Melbourne. Its best known track is the 1000 Steps walk from Ferntree Gully, a steep climb on stone stairs that also serves as a memorial to the Kokoda Track.
Healesville Sanctuary 174 km
A bushland sanctuary in the Yarra Ranges given over to Australian native animals, formally named after Sir Colin MacKenzie. It is one of only two places to have bred a platypus, and it helps keep alive the endangered helmeted honeyeater.
St Kilda Pier 185 km
A 300 metre pier reaching into Port Phillip Bay from the St Kilda foreshore, joined to a stone breakwater. A colony of little penguins lives among the breakwater rocks, and the walk to the old pavilion kiosk at the end looks back to the city towers.
Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne 186 km
Botanic gardens beside the Yarra, just south of the city centre, with sweeping lawns, lakes and plant collections from around the world. They are the Melbourne half of Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, whose second site at Cranbourne is devoted to Australian plants.
Shrine of Remembrance 187 km
A war memorial in Kings Domain on St Kilda Road, built to honour Victorians who served in the First World War and now remembering all Australians who have served. At 11 o'clock on 11 November a ray of sunlight falls through the roof onto the word Love on the Stone of Remembrance.
Melbourne Cricket Ground 187 km
The largest stadium in Australia, in Yarra Park, established by the Melbourne Cricket Club in 1853. It is the home of Test cricket's Boxing Day match and the AFL Grand Final, and it was the main stadium of the 1956 Olympics.
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Questions
Where is Wilsons Promontory?
Wilsons Promontory is in Tidal River, Victoria, Australia. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Phillip Island (120 km), Puffing Billy Railway (160 km), Dandenong Ranges National Park (168 km).
How do I get the Wilsons Promontory stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Wilsons Promontory and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Victoria volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Wilsons Promontory before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Victoria volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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