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Corner Inlet & Wilsons Promontory cruising guide

Official Victorian sources for this areaGippsland Ports: Port of Corner Inlet & Port AlbertGippsland Ports: ocean access bars and crossingsGippsland Ports notices to marinersParks Victoria: Refuge Cove camping areaParks Victoria: Wilsons Promontory National ParkFree official pages and PDFs from the Victorian port managers. Read the current notices before you go. Not for navigation.
Port Albert, Corner Inlet and Port Welshpool, and the east side of Wilsons Promontory · 3 guidesLast checked: 28 October 2026Report a correction

West of Lakes Entrance there's a long, exposed run along Ninety Mile Beach. Port Albert and Corner Inlet sit behind shallow, shifting entrances that need local knowledge. Wilsons Promontory, the southern tip of the mainland, has anchorages on its east side, with Refuge Cove the sheltered one.

Map of the Corner Inlet & Wilsons Promontory region (Port Albert, Corner Inlet and Port Welshpool, and the east side of Wilsons Promontory) with a numbered marker for each of its 3 cruising guide pages.
Numbers match the guide list below. Each name links to its page. Positions are approximate. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Positions are approximate and for orientation only. Not a chart. Not for navigation.
  1. 1Port Albert · Shallow bar port
  2. 2Corner Inlet & Port Welshpool · Tidal inlet + boat harbour
  3. 3Wilsons Promontory: Refuge Cove & the east coast · National park anchorages

Guides in this region, east to west

Port Albert

Shallow bar port

Port Albert's outer bar and channel, depths, notices and local-knowledge warnings: free planning notes for small craft. Not for navigation.

Last checked: 28 October 2026

Corner Inlet & Port Welshpool

Tidal inlet + boat harbour

Corner Inlet's entrance, the Lewis Channel to Port Welshpool, Franklin Channel anchorage and the rules: free notes. Not for navigation.

Last checked: 28 October 2026

Wilsons Promontory: Refuge Cove & the east coast

National park anchorages

Refuge Cove, Sealers Cove and Waterloo Bay on the east side of Wilsons Promontory: shelter, swell, park rules. Not for navigation.

Last checked: 28 October 2026

Entrances and hazards to plan around

Read the current Gippsland Ports notices before entering Port Albert or Corner Inlet, and get local advice from the Coast Guard flotilla first.

Neighbouring regions

About these guides

These are planning notes written by a working delivery skipper from public sources: Parks Victoria, Gippsland Ports and Ports Victoria notices and guides, the Victorian Recreational Boating Safety Handbook, the Bureau of Meteorology, NGA Pub. 127 and OpenStreetMap. They are not for navigation. Use the official chart, current notices, official tide tables and local advice. Each page shows when its facts were last checked.

Sources & credits

Parks Victoria. Facts from the Parks Victoria notices to mariners, the Port Phillip and Western Port Recreational Boating Guides, the boating and swimming zones pages and the Gabo Island, Refuge Cove and Wilsons Promontory pages, restated and summarised in our own words. Parks Victoria web content is CC BY 4.0 unless marked otherwise; the boating guides and notices are linked, not reproduced. Not endorsed by Parks Victoria.

Gippsland Ports. Facts from Gippsland Ports notices to mariners, navigation warnings, local navigation notices and port pages, cited for fact only and linked, not reproduced. The current notices prevail.

Ports Victoria. Notices to mariners for the ports of Melbourne, Geelong and Hastings, cited for fact only.

Safe Transport Victoria. Facts from the Victorian Recreational Boating Safety Handbook (2024 edition), restated in our own words and linked, not reproduced. The handbook and the Marine Safety Act 2010 and its regulations prevail.

Bureau of Meteorology. Tide, tidal stream and forecast pages are linked, not reproduced; the Port Phillip Heads slack-water guidance is summarised.

NGA. Background from NGA Pub. 127, Sailing Directions (Enroute) South and East Coasts of Australia, U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a US Government work in the public domain. Parts of it are old; where a page leans on it, we say so. Not endorsed by NGA.

OpenStreetMap. Map tiles, facility positions and the Ashore lists © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Victorian Government. Marine search and rescue units from the vic.gov.au unit list, checked on the date shown in the rescue box.

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