Lakes
Entrance
Ocean Access to the Gippsland Lakes
In 1858 the
44 ton schooner, Georgina
Smith, became the first large vessel to find its way into the Gippsland Lakes from the
ocean, sailing up the Tambo River to Mossiface with supplies for the Crooked
River goldfields. For the next 70 or 80 years the Entrance played an
important role in the trade of
East Gippsland. The original access point to
the lakes was a natural opening about 2 km east of the present
entrance at the now
Lakes Entrance Golf Course.
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