Capel Sound, Victoria
Capel Sound (formerly Rosebud West) Melbourne, Victoria | |||||||||||||||
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Capel Sound (formerly Rosebud West) Location in metropolitan Melbourne | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 38°22′37″S 144°52′19″E / 38.377°S 144.872°ECoordinates: 38°22′37″S 144°52′19″E / 38.377°S 144.872°E | ||||||||||||||
Population | 4,579 (2011)[1] | ||||||||||||||
• Density | 995/km2 (2,578/sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 3940 | ||||||||||||||
Area | 4.6 km2 (1.8 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Location | |||||||||||||||
LGA(s) | Shire of Mornington Peninsula | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Nepean | ||||||||||||||
Federal Division(s) | Flinders | ||||||||||||||
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Capel Sound (formerly Rosebud West) is a suburb located on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia. Its local government area is the Shire of Mornington Peninsula.
A distinguishing landmark feature of Capel Sound is the Tootgarook Swamp, the largest example left of a shallow freshwater marsh in the Port Phillip bay region. The swamp is also described by Melbourne water as a ground water dependent ecosystem. The 381 hectare swamp is found on the lower section of the Mornington Peninsula, called the Nepean Peninsula in Victoria, Australia. A large portion of the Tootgarook Swamp is zoned as residential and industrial, with roughly half of the actual swamp inside the green wedge and half within the urban growth boundary.[2]
Rosebud West Post Office opened on 12 January 1938 and closed around 1996.[3]
On 15 September 2016 Mornington Peninsula Shire Council officially changed the name from Rosebud West to Capel Sound.[4]
References
- ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Rosebud West (State Suburb)". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
- ↑ http://www.savetootgarookswamp.org/index.html
- ↑ Premier Postal History, Post Office List, retrieved 11 April 2008
- ↑ Harding, Allison (13 September 2016). "It’s official: Rosebud West loses ‘stigma’ name and becomes Capel Sound". Mornington Peninsula Leader. Retrieved 3 January 2017.