Photograph - Gippsland Lakes from Jemmy's Point, Caire, Nicholas John, 1905c

Historical information

Lakes Entrance from Jimmy's Point. This vantage ground shows a birds eye view the Entrance works, which give Gippsland a waterway to Melbourne by keeping open a connection with the Southern Ocean.

Physical description

Black and white photograph of a panorama of the artificial entrance to the Gippsland Lakes. The New Works village on the lake shore of the hummocks, the rock groynes at Bullock Island and a steamer in the main shipping channel of the lake. Back view of a woman in hat and dark clothing seated amongst vegetation in foreground. Lakes Entrance Victoria

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