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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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