Jan Juc, Victoria
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Jan Juc () is a suburb of
Torquay, Victoria Torquay ( ) is a town in Surf Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia, which faces Bass Strait, 21 km south of Geelong and is the gateway to the Great Ocean Road. It is bordered on the west by Spring Creek and its coastal features include Point D ...
in Australia. At the 2016 census, Jan Juc had a population of 3,683.


History

Nearby Bellbrae was originally called Jan Juc but was renamed in 1923, so the Jan Juc Post Office, which opened on 25 January 1862, was in fact in Bellbrae. There has never been a post office in the current Jan Juc. As of , housing estates almost link Jan Juc to adjacent Torquay, across the Spring Creek. Along with many other parts of the Surf Coast, increasing popularity is placing pressure on the coastal environment.


Jan Juc beach

The Jan Juc beach lies between Rocky Point to the east and Bird Rock to the west, and is bounded by high cliffs, apart from the middle where an ephemeral creek enters
Bass Strait Bass Strait () is a strait separating the island state of Tasmania from the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland (more specifically the coast of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, with the exception of the land border across Boundary Islet). The ...
through sand dunes. The beach is patrolled during summer months by the Jan Juc Surf Life Saving Club. Jan Juc beach is home to the Jan Juc Formation, of which its Marl formation has been biostratigraphically and radiometrically dated to the
Chattian The Chattian is, in the geologic timescale, the younger of two ages or upper of two stages of the Oligocene Epoch/Series. It spans the time between . The Chattian is preceded by the Rupelian and is followed by the Aquitanian (the lowest stage ...
(
Oligocene The Oligocene ( ) is a geologic epoch (geology), epoch of the Paleogene Geologic time scale, Period that extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present ( to ). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that defin ...
) (28.4 - 23.0 Ma). The Formation is known for various fossil discoveries. In the late 1990s, a surfer found the fossilised remains of an extinct genus of whale on a beach near Jan Juc. It was named ''
Janjucetus hunderi ''Janjucetus'' is an extinct genus of cetacean, and a basal (phylogenetics), basal baleen whale (Mysticeti), from the Late Oligocene around 25 million years ago (mya) off south-east Australia, containing one species ''J. hunderi''. Unlike moder ...
'', after the location.Ancient whale broke all the rules
ABC News in Science 16 August 2006 The remains of other extinct whales ''
Mammalodon ''Mammalodon'' is an extinct genus of archaic baleen whale belonging to the family Mammalodontidae. Taxonomy The fossils of ''Mammalodon'' were found to be around 25.7–23.9 million years old, dating to the Late Oligocene. The holotype for ...
'', ''
Prosqualodon ''Prosqualodon'' is an extinct genus of Early to Middle Miocene cetacean from Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and Venezuela. Description ''Prosqualodon'' was related to and looked like modern toothed whales. It was about long and resembl ...
'' and ''
Waipatia ''Waipatia'' is an extinct genus of odontocetes from the late Oligocene (Chattian) of New Zealand. Taxonomy The type species, ''Waipatia maerewhenua'' is known from a single skull found near 45° South in Otago Otago (, ; ) is a regions ...
'' have also been discovered at Jan Juc.


Sport

Jan Juc has a Surf Life Saving Club which includes a junior "Nippers" program. The Jan Juc Sharks cricket club has eight junior teams and four senior teams that compete in the Geelong Junior Cricket Association and the Bellarine Peninsula Cricket Association respectively. Jan Juc Boardriders is the local surfing club.


References


External links


Official Great Ocean Rd infoTorquay, Jan Juc, Bells Beach Visitor Guide - JanJuc.com.au
Towns in Victoria (state) Surf Coast Shire Coastal towns in Victoria (state) Surfing locations in Victoria (state) Beaches of Victoria (state) {{BarwonSouthWest-geo-stub