Corner Inlet

Corner Inlet
Corner Inlet is an important site for pied oystercatchers
Corner Inlet Location in Victoria
Location	South Gippsland, Victoria
Coordinates	38°45′57″S 146°20′21″E / 38.76583°S 146.33917°E / -38.76583; 146.33917Coordinates: 38°45′57″S 146°20′21″E / 38.76583°S 146.33917°E / -38.76583; 146.33917
Primary inflows	Albert River Agnes River
Primary outflows	Bass Strait
Basin countries	Australia
Surface area	600 km2 (230 sq mi)
Islands	Snake, Sunday and Saint Margaret

The Corner Inlet is a 600-square-kilometre (230 sq mi) bay, that is located 200 kilometres (120 mi) 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 mudflats, mangroves, salt marsh and seagrass meadows, sheltered from the surf of Bass Strait by a complex of 40 sandy barrier islands, 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 1,550-hectare (3,800-acre) 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 migratory waders and other birds as well a rich marine flora and fauna.

Corner Inlet lies within the traditional lands of the Brataolong clan of the Gunai 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 tourist destination for recreational boating and fishing.