Corio Bay
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Corio Bay is one of numerous bays in the southwest corner of Australia's Port Phillip, and is the bay on which abuts the City of Geelong. The nearby suburb of Corio takes its name from Corio Bay.
When Hamilton Hume and William Hovell arrived at the bay in 1824 they met with the local Wautharong people who referred to the bay as "Jillong" and the surround land "Corayo", but by the time the area was surveyed in the late 1830s the Aboriginal names had been swapped. The names "Corayo" and "Jillong" had since been Anglicised to "Corio" and "Geelong".
When Hamilton Hume and William Hovell arrived at the bay in 1824 they met with the local Wautharong people who referred to the bay as "Jillong" and the surround land "Corayo", but by the time the area was surveyed in the late 1830s the Aboriginal names had been swapped. The names "Corayo" and "Jillong" had since been Anglicised to "Corio" and "Geelong".
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corio_Bay
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Coordinates: 38°6'2"S 144°29'38"E
- Mornington Peninsula Foreshore 25 km
- Port Phillip Bay 28 km
- Western Port 65 km
- Bass Strait 82 km
- Lake Corangamite 102 km
- Waratah Bay 147 km
- Eildon Lake 169 km
- Rocklands Resevoir 244 km
- Hunter Island 257 km
- Duck Bay 302 km
- City of Greater Geelong 5.9 km
- Avalon 7.2 km
- Point Wilson 8.2 km
- Curlewis 8.9 km
- Leopold 11 km
- Werribee Sewage Treatment Works 16 km
- Cocoroc 19 km
- City of Wyndham, VIC 26 km
- Shire of Mornington Peninsula 48 km
- Melbourne 58 km