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Port Welshpool Jetty

Port Welshpool Shipping Pier ,  Port Welshpool Long Jetty

Foreshore at end of Port Welshpool Road, PORT WELSHPOOL VIC 3965 - Property No B1379

The Port Welshpool Long Jetty was constructed at a site chosen by a Royal Commissionon Outer Ports (1927). The jetty and its facilities were identified as key to developing the eastern Bass Strait fisheries and of linking to Tasmania to supply fish to the mainland. Construction began in 1936 and finished in 1938. The jetty was built using yellow stringybark sourced from near Woodside, east of Yarram.

As constructed the jetty was 850m long, with varying widths ... more

B1379

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