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Sorrento is a township in Victoria
Victoria (Australia)

File:Map Victoria Aboriginal tribes .jpgVictoria is a States and territories of Australia located in the southeastern corner of Australia. It is the smallest mainland state in area but the most Population density and urbanised....
, Australia, located on the shores of Port Phillip
Port Phillip

Port Phillip is a large Headlands and bays in southern Victoria , Australia. Geographically, Port Phillip is a large marine bay 1,930 km? in area which has a coastline length of 264 km ....
 on the Mornington Peninsula
Mornington Peninsula

The Mornington Peninsula is a peninsula located south-east of Melbourne in Victoria , Australia. It is surrounded by Port Phillip to the west, Western Port to the east and Bass Strait to the south, and is connected to the mainland in the north....
, about one and a half hours south of Melbourne
Melbourne

Melbourne is the more common name for the geographic region and Census in Australia of the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area. It is the second List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million and serves as the List of Australian capital cities of Victoria ....
. It is a largely upper-class, seaside resort area, but is also a quiet seaside township in the off-peak months of the year.

803, 30 years before the founding of Melbourne, Sullivan Bay
Sullivan Bay, Victoria

Sullivan Bay lies 60 km due south of Melbourne on Port Phillip Bay, one km east of Sorrento, Victoria. It was established as a short lived convict settlement in 1803 by Lieutenant David Collins ....
 in Sorrento became the site of Victoria's first European settlement
History of Victoria

This article describes the history of the Australian state of Victoria ....
.

Due to a lack of fresh water the settlement was short lived and subsequently moved to Hobart in Tasmania.






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Sorrento is a township in Victoria
Victoria (Australia)

File:Map Victoria Aboriginal tribes .jpgVictoria is a States and territories of Australia located in the southeastern corner of Australia. It is the smallest mainland state in area but the most Population density and urbanised....
, Australia, located on the shores of Port Phillip
Port Phillip

Port Phillip is a large Headlands and bays in southern Victoria , Australia. Geographically, Port Phillip is a large marine bay 1,930 km? in area which has a coastline length of 264 km ....
 on the Mornington Peninsula
Mornington Peninsula

The Mornington Peninsula is a peninsula located south-east of Melbourne in Victoria , Australia. It is surrounded by Port Phillip to the west, Western Port to the east and Bass Strait to the south, and is connected to the mainland in the north....
, about one and a half hours south of Melbourne
Melbourne

Melbourne is the more common name for the geographic region and Census in Australia of the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area. It is the second List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million and serves as the List of Australian capital cities of Victoria ....
. It is a largely upper-class, seaside resort area, but is also a quiet seaside township in the off-peak months of the year.

History

In 1803, 30 years before the founding of Melbourne, Sullivan Bay
Sullivan Bay, Victoria

Sullivan Bay lies 60 km due south of Melbourne on Port Phillip Bay, one km east of Sorrento, Victoria. It was established as a short lived convict settlement in 1803 by Lieutenant David Collins ....
 in Sorrento became the site of Victoria's first European settlement
History of Victoria

This article describes the history of the Australian state of Victoria ....
.

Due to a lack of fresh water the settlement was short lived and subsequently moved to Hobart in Tasmania. Victoria's first magistrates' court
Magistrates' Court

A magistrates' court or court of petty sessions, formerly known as a police court, is the lowest level of Courts of England and Wales in England and Wales and many other common law jurisdictions....
, public hospital
Public hospital

A public hospital or government hospital is a hospital which is owned by a government and receives government funding. This type of hospital provides medical care free of charge, the cost of which is covered by the funding the hospital receives....
, postal service
Postal service

Postal service may refer to:*Postal administration, a country's organization providing postal services and postal policies*Mail, anything sent through postal services...
 and government printing office were established in Sorrento. The first Victorian wedding, christening and funeral services were held at Sullivan Bay.

The first settlement site overlooking Sullivan Bay includes graves believed to be of first settlers.

Sorrento Post Office opened on 10 January 1871.

A horse and steam powered tram which ran between the foreshore and the back beach opened in 1890 and closed in 1919.

Today

The town has a number of grand historic homes and hotels which date back to the 1860s, almost all of which have been constructed with local limestone. The Mechanics' Institute, Sorrento
Mechanics' Institute, Sorrento

The Mechanics' Institute, Sorrento is a building classified by the National Trust of Australia and located at 827 Melbourne Road, Sorrento, Victoria, Victoria, Australia, Australia....
 was built in 1877 using local limestone and the building, which is now classified by the National Trust of Australia
National Trust of Australia

The Australian Council of National Trusts is a community-based, non-government organisation, committed to promoting and conserving Australia's indigenous, natural and historic heritage by assisting the work of the State Trusts....
, houses the Nepean Historical Society's museum.

Sorrento has regular bus routes and a vehicular ferry, Peninsula Searoad Transport, operates an hourly service between Sorrento and Queenscliff
Queenscliff, Victoria

Queenscliff is a small town on the Bellarine Peninsula at the entrance to Port Phillip in southern Victoria, Australia and is bounded on its north side by the environmentally important Swan Bay ....
.

The Sorrento Park, established in 1870, contains a variety of trees, including an Aleppo Pine
Aleppo Pine

The Aleppo Pine is a pine native to the Mediterranean region. The range extends from Morocco and Spain north to southern France, Italy and Croatia, and east to Greece and northern Libya, with an outlying population in Syria , Jordan and Israel....
 grown from the seed of the Lone Pine
Lone Pine (tree)

The Lone Pine was the name given to a solitary tree on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey, which marked the site of the Battle of Lone Pine in 1915....
 of Gallipoli
Gallipoli

The Gallipoli peninsula is located in Turkish Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles straits to the east....
.

The town has an Australian Rules football team competing in the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League
Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League

The Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League is an Australian rules football competition, governed by the Victorian Country Football League....
 who won the flag in 2008.

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