The Corner Inlet is a bay located south-east of Melbourne in the South Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. Of Victoria's large bays it is both the easternmost and the warmest. It contains intertidal zone , , salt marsh and , sheltered from the surf of Bass Strait by a complex of 40 sandy shoal, the largest of which are Snake, Sunday and Saint Margaret Islands.
The inlet is protected as a Ramsar site by the Nooramunga and Corner Inlet Marine and Coastal Parks, and by part of it lying within the Corner Inlet Marine National Park. The inlet adjoins Wilsons Promontory in the west, extends to Ninety Mile Beach in the east, and supports large numbers of bird migration and other birds as well a rich marine flora and fauna.[ Corner Inlet Marine National Park ]
History
Corner Inlet lies within the traditional lands of the Brataolong clan of the
Gunai people nation. In the early 1840s, European settlers moved into the area and established agricultural, mining and forestry enterprises. Commercial fishing became established in the 1860s. The surrounding land was originally covered by
forest which has mostly since been cleared. It has become a popular
tourism destination for recreational boating and fishing.
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Birds
Some of land and water covering Corner Inlet has been recognised by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area. Containing the most extensive intertidal mudflats in Victoria, it supports over 1% of the world populations of chestnut teal, Far Eastern curlew, red-necked stint, pied and sooty oystercatchers and the hooded plover. The critically endangered orange-bellied parrot has occasionally been seen there.
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