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GL24 (8422) Butler Point

This information has been developed from the publications:

    • Sites of Geological and Geomorphological Significance in Central Gippsland (1981) by Neville Rosengren, M.S McRae-Williams and S.M Kraemers.
    • Sites of Geological and Geomorphological Significance in the Gippsland Lakes Catchment (1984) by Neville Rosengren.
    • Sites of Geological and Geomorphological Significance in East Gippsland, Victoria (1981) by Neville Rosengren, M.S McRae-Williams
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Location:625023 (8422). 500 metres west of Paynesville.

Abstract:
Recurving gravel spit.

Access:
Boat from Paynesville.

Ownership:
Some private land, Crown land.

Geomorphology::
Butler Point is a gravely spit surmounted by a low beach ridge. The spit has extended from the northern edge of a broad headland at Penrose Hill where the coast changes orientation. Material for spit growth is supplied by longshore drifting along beached from Bluff Head to the south. Slight recurvature into Dawson Creek is due to wave refraction around the distal end and to the influence of lesser wave action from the east. The spit terminates as a narrow, tapering ridge which because of its small size clearly displays, for field observations, the effect of wave refraction in shaping the distal end of the spit.

Significance:
Regional. This is one of the few active narrow and recurving gravel spits in the Gippsland Lakes - most spits here are broader and cuspate in form.

Management:
Construction of coastal engineering structures, such as groynes, would diminish the supply of material to the spit and detract from the dynamic or active nature of the spit.
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