Moggs Creek is a locality in
Surf Coast Shire
The Surf Coast Shire is a local government area in the Barwon South West region of Victoria, Australia, located in the south-western part of the state. It covers an area of . It had a population of 32,251 in June 2018. It includes the towns o ...
,
Victoria
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,
Australia
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. It is located
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 towns of Torquay and Allansford. Built by returned soldiers between 1919 and 1932, and dedica ...
between
Aireys Inlet
Aireys Inlet is a town located on the Great Ocean Road, southwest of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Aireys Inlet is located between Anglesea and Lorne, and joined with Fairhaven, Moggs Creek, and Eastern View to the west.
Many surfers holi ...
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.]
Geography
Moggs Creek itself rises in the wooded hills to the north, near Boonah
Boonah is a rural town and locality in the Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Boonah had a population of 2,557 people.
Geography
The town is positioned near the Fassifern Valley, McPherson Range and Main Ra ...
. The settlement of the same name is at the mouth of Moggs Creek, which only runs into the ocean after periods of heavy rain.
The beach at Moggs Creek, unlike that at Aireys Inlet, is a long, uninterrupted sandy beach, running between Fairhaven in the east and Eastern View in the west. The shore is lined with sand dunes, covered in shrubbery, which separate the beach from the Great Ocean Road. Though that stretch of beach is usually wide and easily traversable, water can rise close to the dunes at high tide.
Notable people
* Patrick Dangerfield
Patrick Dangerfield (born 5 April 1990) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously played for the Adelaide Football Club from 2008 to 2015. He has s ...
, AFL footballer playing for the Geelong Football Club
The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed the Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club based at Kardinia Park in South Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier comp ...
, and formerly the Adelaide Football Club
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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 (state)
Great Ocean Road
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