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, beneath the Point Lonsdale lighthouse.]] Point Lonsdale is a coastal township on the Bellarine Peninsula , near Queenscliff , Victoria , Australia . The traditional owners of this area are the Wathaurong people of the Kulin nation. The escaped convict William Buckley is the first known European to have resided in the area, having lived with the local people between 1803 and 1835. Permanent European settlement began at Point Lonsdale in the latter half of the 19th century with the construction of a Lighthouse in 1863 and the extension of the railway line from Geelong to Queenscliff in 1879. Since settlement numerous ships have been wrecked here on the rocky reefs at the entrance to Port Phillip Bay . REFERENCES |
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