This information has been developed from one or more of these publications:
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Location: | Flinders – 321453. Fifty metres south of the breakwater at point Leo. | |
Access: | Walk from Point Leo breakwater. | |
Ownership: | Crown Land. | |
Geomorphology: | An abandoned cobble beach lies 0.5 to 1.0 metres above high water mark. The beach materials include rounded basalt, and siliceous and ferruginous sandstone cobbles set in cemented sandy matrix. | |
Significance: | Regional. The site indicates that a different wave environment and/or a higher sea level occurred in earlier Holocene times at point Leo. | |
Management: | Class 1. No construction or roadwork activity of any kind that would obscure the beach section should be permitted in the area of the site. |