Is it legal to collect at Portsea, VIC: back beach at London Bridge, Formosa and Sierra Nevada?

Prohibited, look only. Mornington Peninsula National Park; wrecks protected under Heritage Act 2017 and UCH Act 2018

What can you find at Portsea, VIC: back beach at London Bridge, Formosa and Sierra Nevada?

iron hull plate, spars, fittings, copper

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Portsea, VIC

Back beach at London Bridge, Formosa and Sierra Nevada

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsProhibited, look only

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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Nails and fittings

Wreck timber

Also reported: spars.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), NPS photo (Public domain).

Why this spot

Iron schooner Formosa beached 1869 and Sierra Nevada wrecked 1900 on this surf coast; iron stern section and spars re-emerge from dunes.

Heritage Victoria Dec 2024: 2 x 5 m iron section likely the upper stern of Formosa exposed near London Bridge (photo 25 Oct 2024, also exposed ten years earlier); 8 m spar with iron fittings found in a dune on Point Nepean back beach 31 Oct 2024View source →