Editing Point Nepean (section)

{{Short description|Geographic location}}
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{{Use Australian English|date=September 2014}}
[[File:Point Nepean from Queenscliff.jpg|thumb|300px|View of Point Nepean from [[Queenscliff, Victoria|Queenscliff]]]]
[[File:PointNepean.jpg|thumb|350px|Engine House ruins on Point Nepean]]
'''Point Nepean''' ([[Boonwurrung language|Boonwurrung]]: '''''Boona-djalang''''')<ref>{{cite book |last=Clark |first=Ian D. |title=Dictionary of Aboriginal placenames of Melbourne and Central Victoria |date=2002 |publisher=Victorian Aboriginal Corp. for Languages |location=Melbourne |isbn=0957936052 |page=36}}</ref> marks the southern point of [[The Rip]] (the entrance to [[Port Phillip]]) and the most westerly point of the [[Mornington Peninsula]], in [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], Australia. It was named in 1802 after the British politician and colonial administrator Sir [[Evan Nepean]] by [[John Murray (Australian explorer)|John Murray]] in {{HMS|Lady Nelson|1798|6}}.<ref>
{{citation
 |last= Flinders
 |first= Matthew
 |author-link= Matthew Flinders
 |title= A Voyage to Terra Australis
 |publisher= G. and W. Nicol
 |volume= 1
 |page= 212
 |year= 1814
 |place= London
 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=C-c-AAAAYAAJ}}, entry for 27 April 1802
</ref> Its coast and adjacent waters are included in the [[Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park]], while its land area is part of the [[Point Nepean National Park]]. The point includes [[Cheviot Beach, Victoria|Cheviot Beach]] on its southern side, notable as the site of the disappearance in 1967 of Australia's then-Prime Minister [[Harold Holt]].