South Gippsland, Wilsons Promontory and Corner Inlet

Introduction

The South Gippsland coast consists of cliffed capes and wide asymmetrical embayments running south-east to the granitic uplands of Wilsons Promontory, backed by the Corner Inlet depression. The hinterland is dominated by the Cretaceous sandstones and mudstones of the South Gippsland Highlands (also known as the Strzelecki Rang­­es), geologically similar to those of the Otways. They outcrop in deeply dissected hill country formed by subaerial denudation of a series of uplifted domes and fault-bounded blocks, with intervening areas of subsidence in which Tertiary and Quaternary sediment has accumulated.

The Tertiary rocks include areas of Older Volcanics, but these formations have had little effect on the coastline.

South Gippsland Coastline

In the western part of the South Gippsland Highlands the Bass Block, bounded by the Bass and Kongwak Faults, forms an upland that runs SW to reach the coast in the cliffs between San Remo and Kilcunda. The cliffs and shore platforms are...