wilson's promontory

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Southernmost point of the Australian mainland, southern Victoria. The peninsula, 22 mi (35 km) long with a maximum width of 14 mi (23 km), projects into the Bass Strait and is almost an island. Its highest point is Mount Latrobe (2,475 ft [754 m]). Visited in 1798 by the English explorer George Bass, it was first called Furneaux Land; it was renamed for Thomas Wilson, an English merchant. In 1905 it was made a national park

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