St Kilda penguins (Greater Melbourne)
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Bob Palfrey, a local mariner, reckons he started hearing penguins in St Kilda harbour in 1956, not long after a breakwater was built to provide shelter for yachts competing in the Melbourne Olympics.
For more info:
www.ecocentre.com/lp_introduction.html
For more info:
www.ecocentre.com/lp_introduction.html
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Little_Penguin_colonies
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 37°51'38"S 144°57'41"E
- Maccas 1.5 km
- Elsternwick park 4 km
- The King David School 4.2 km
- Royal Brighton Yacht Club 5.7 km
- Brighton beachboxes 6.7 km
- Crystals Beach 6.8 km
- Williamstown Highschool 6.8 km
- Brighton Beach Railway Station 7.6 km
- Hampton Beach 8.5 km
- Oil Tanker, Melbourne 13 km
- City of Port Phillip 0.2 km
- Albert Park and Lake 1.7 km
- Prahran 3.3 km
- City of Stonnington 6.7 km
- City of Glen Eira 8.2 km
- Brighton Golf Course 8.7 km
- City of Boroondara 8.9 km
- Melbourne 9 km
- City of Bayside 10 km
- Port Phillip Bay 31 km