Corner Inlet
The Corner Inlet is a 600-square-kilometre (230 sq mi) bay 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.
| Corner Inlet | |
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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 |
| Primary inflows | |
| Primary outflows | Bass Strait |
| Basin countries | Australia |
| Surface area | 600 km2 (230 sq mi) |
| Islands | Snake, Sunday and Saint Margaret |
Ramsar Wetland | |
| Designated | 15 December 1982 |
| Reference no. | 261 |
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.