Queenscliff Victoria | |||||||||||||||
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![]() Looking east over Queenscliff to Sand Island. On the left is Swan Bay and the right is Port Phillip Bay. | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 38°16′0″S 144°39′0″E / 38.26667°S 144.65000°E | ||||||||||||||
Population | 1,315 (2016 census)[1] | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 3225 | ||||||||||||||
Elevation | 15 m (49 ft) | ||||||||||||||
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LGA(s) | Borough of Queenscliffe | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Bellarine | ||||||||||||||
Federal division(s) | Corangamite | ||||||||||||||
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Queenscliff is a small town at the south-eastern end of the Bellarine Peninsula in southern Victoria, Australia. It lies south of Swan Bay at the entrance to Port Phillip. It is the administrative centre for the Borough of Queenscliffe. At the 2016 census, Queenscliff had a population of 1,315.[1]
Queenscliff is a seaside resort known for its Victorian era heritage and tourist industry and as one of the endpoints of the Searoad ferry to Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula.