Introduction
Westernport Bay occupies part of a tectonic depression, the Western Port sunkland, between the Mornington Peninsula to the west and the South Gippsland Highlands to the east (Fig. 21.6.6.1 ). On the western side the depression is bounded by the Tyabb Fault, and to the east by the Heath Hill and Bass Faults. It is more complex than the Port Phillip Bay sunkland, for it includes French Island and Phillip Island as relatively high areas and extends northward beneath the Koo-wee-rup plains as an area of swamp now largely reclaimed (Jenkin 1962).
The Westernport sunkland. (Courtesy Geostudies.)
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(2010). Victoria: Westernport Bay, with French Island and Phillip Island. In: Bird, E.C.F. (eds) Encyclopedia of the World's Coastal Landforms. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8639-7_238
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