Queenscliff

Queenscliff is a residential community on the Bellarine Peninsula in southern Victoria, Australia, south of Swan Bay at the passageway to Port Phillip. It is the regulatory place for the Borough of Queenscliffe. At the 2016 registration, Queenscliff had a populace of 1,315. Queenscliff is a previous 1880s coastline resort presently known for its Victorian period legacy and traveler industry and as one of the endpoints of the Searoad ship to Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula.

European wayfarers previously touched base in 1802, Lieutenant John Murray in January and Captain Matthew Flinders in April. The primary European pioneer in the region was convict escapee William Buckley somewhere in the range of 1803 and 1835, for a brief span in a give in underneath the Point Lonsdale Lighthouse, with the neighborhood Aborigines. Lasting settlement started in 1836 when squatters arrived.

Shortland's Bluff was named to pay tribute to Lieutenant John Shortland, who aided the studying of Port Phillip. Land deals started in 1853, that year the name was changed to Queenscliff by Lieutenant Charles La Trobe, out of appreciation for Queen Victoria. Queenscliff has three exhibition halls; the Queenscliffe Historical Museum, Queenscliffe Maritime Museum, and the Fort Queenscliff Museum. The Queenscliff Football Club is the town's Australian tenets football club which takes an interest in the Bellarine Football League.