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Coordinates:38°37′0″S142°59′0″E / 38.61667°S 142.98333°E /-38.61667; 142.98333

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Town in Victoria, Australia

Port Campbell
Victoria

Aerial photograph of Port Campbell

Port Campbell

Coordinates

38°37′0″S142°59′0″E / 38.61667°S 142.98333°E /-38.61667; 142.98333

Population

478 (2016 census)^[1]

Postcode(s)

3269

Location

224 km (139 mi) SW ofMelbourne
67 km (42 mi) E ofWarrnambool

Mean max temp	Mean min temp	Annual rainfall
20 °C 68 °F	7.5 °C 46 °F	902.9 mm 35.5 in

Localities around Port Campbell:
Heytesbury Lower	Newfield	Waarre
Peterborough	Port Campbell	Princetown
Southern Ocean	Southern Ocean	Southern Ocean

Port Campbell Bay and jetty summer sunset

Port Campbell (/ˈkæmbəl/)^[2] is a town inVictoria,Australia. The town is on theGreat Ocean Road, west of theTwelve Apostles, in theShire of Corangamite. At the2016 census, Port Campbell had a population of 478.^[3]

History

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The port and the town are named after CaptainAlexander 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, seeCrawford 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 the2001 census, Port Campbell had a population of 372. At the2006 census, Port Campbell had a population of 599. At the2011 census, Port Campbell had a population of 618.

Port Campbell is now a popular tourist destination for visitingThe Twelve Apostles, located 12 kilometres to the east of the town and thePort Campbell National Park,^[6] as well as maintaining a smallcrayfishing community.

Gallery

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The town seen from the war memorial lookout
The headland of the harbour at Port Campbell
The fishing docks
Lord Street

References

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^Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017)."Port Campbell (State Suburb)".2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved28 January 2018.
^Butler, S., ed. (2009)."Port Campbell".Macquarie Dictionary (5th ed.). Sydney: Macquarie Dictionary Publishers Pty Ltd. 1952 pages.ISBN 978-1-876429-66-9.
^Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017)."Port Campbell (State Suburb)".2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved28 January 2018.
^"PORT CAMPBELL".Camperdown Chronicle. Vol. VII, no. 651. Victoria, Australia. 24 December 1880. p. 3. Retrieved23 January 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
^Phoenix Auctions History,Post Office List, retrieved3 April 2021
^"Port Campbell".Visit Victoria. Tourism Victoria. Retrieved5 December 2013.

External links

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Media related toPort Campbell, Victoria at Wikimedia Commons

Port Campbell - Official tourism website.
Official website for The Twelve Apostles Region of Victoria

v t e Visitor attractions on theGreat Ocean Road
Attractions	Bay of Islands Coastal Park Bells Beach Cape Bridgewater Gibson Steps Great Otway National Park The Grotto Loch Ard Gorge London Bridge Point Addis Marine National Park Port Campbell National Park The Twelve Apostles Twelve Apostles Marine National Park
Towns	Aireys Inlet Anglesea Apollo Bay Barwon Heads Bellbrae Camperdown Colac Eastern View Fairhaven Geelong Jan Juc Lavers Hill Lorne Moggs Creek Peterborough Port Campbell Port Fairy Princetown Separation Creek Torquay Warrnambool Wye River

v t e Localities in theShire of Corangamite
Town	Camperdown Cobden Cooriemungle Derrinallum Ecklin South^ Garvoc^ Lismore Noorat^ Peterborough^ Port Campbell Princetown Scotts Creek Simpson^ Skipton^ Terang^ Timboon
Locality	Ayrford^ Berrybank^ Bookaar Boorcan Bostocks Creek Bradvale Brucknell^ Bullaharre Carlisle River^ Carpendeit^ Chapple Vale^ Chocolyn Cobrico Cowleys Creek Cressy^ Cundare North^ Curdies River Curdievale^ Darlington^ Dixie Duverney Elingamite Elingamite North Foxhow Gellibrand Lower^ Glenfyne Glenormiston North^ Glenormiston South Gnotuk Heytesbury Lower Jancourt Jancourt East^ Kariah Kennedys Creek Koallah Kolora^ Larralea Leslie Manor Mingay Mount Bute^ Naroghid Newfield Nirranda East^ Noorat East Paaratte Pirron Yallock^ Pittong^ Pomborneit Pomborneit East Pomborneit North Skibo South Purrumbete Stonyford^ Tandarook Taroon^ Tesbury Timboon West Vite Vite Vite Vite North Waarre Wattle Hill Weerite Werneth^
^ -Territory divided with anotherLGA

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