Port Campbell
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Port Campbell (Template:IPAc-en)[2] is a town in Victoria, Australia. The town is on the Great Ocean Road, west of the Twelve Apostles, in the Shire of Corangamite. At the Template:CensusAU, Port Campbell had a population of 478.[3]
History
The port and the town are named after Captain Alexander Campbell, a whaler and colonist of the Port Fairy region.
The town was settled in the 1870s, with the first wharf being built in 1880.[4] Port Campbell Post Office opened on 19 March 1874. It was renamed Port Campbell West in 1881 when a new Port Campbell office opened near the wharf.[5] There were hopes of a rail connection when the Timboon line opened in 1892 but the state government vetoed the idea in 1916.
The town became a centre of infamy in 1970 when the bodies of a family from Melbourne were discovered in a car that had fallen over a cliff, see Crawford family murder.
The town used to be the centre of a football competition known as the Port Campbell Football Association that operated from 1927, it reformed after WWII as the Heytesbury Football League and ran until 1991.
At the Template:CensusAU, Port Campbell had a population of 372. At the Template:CensusAU, Port Campbell had a population of 599. At the Template:CensusAU, Port Campbell had a population of 618.
Port Campbell is now a popular tourist destination for visiting The Twelve Apostles, located 12 kilometres to the east of the town and the Port Campbell National Park,[6] as well as maintaining a small crayfishing community.
Gallery
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The town seen from the war memorial lookout
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The headland of the harbour at Port Campbell
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The fishing docks
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Lord Street
References
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External links
- Port Campbell - Official tourism website.
- Official website for The Twelve Apostles Region of Victoria
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