Moggs Creek is an Australian coastal hamlet on the
Great Ocean Road
The Great Ocean Road is an Australian National Heritage listed stretch of road along the south-eastern coast of Australia between the Victorian cities of Torquay and Allansford. Built by returned soldiers between 1919 and 1932 and dedicated t ...
between
Aireys Inlet and
Lorne. In the
2021 census, Moggs Creek had a population of 120 people.
The settlement is located on a sandy coastal strip, backed by wooded hills, in which the creek itself rises, running about 10 km south-east to the ocean. The origin of the name Moggs is uncertain, the creek having also been known as the McLaren and Bell Bird in the past. Local belief is that Moggs derives from a family of graziers near St Arnaud, who used to bring cattle to graze in the area.
The construction of the Great Ocean Road in the 1920s paved the way for further development, but it was only after
World War II
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that land in the area was subdivided and sold for housing.
[
In 1959, a group of Moggs Creek residents erected a rough cairn of bricks, topped by a plaster bust, as a monument to the mythical Sir Samuel Moggs, alleged to be the first European to have landed at the location, on 29 February 1759.]
Notable people
* Patrick Dangerfield
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Drafted by Adelaide in 2007, Dangerfi ...
, AFL footballer playing for the Geelong Football Club, and formerly the Adelaide Football Club
* Leeroy Jenkins
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, meme
References
*Armstrong, Paul
''Victoria: a Lonely Planet Australia guide''
Lonely Planet Publications, 1996
*Everist, Richard
''The Complete Guide to the Great Ocean Road''
BestShot, 2009
"Moggs Creek Postcode (VIC)"
QPZM Postcodes Australia.
Towns in Victoria (Australia)
Great Ocean Road
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