...Bass sails westwards along what is now…

1797 CE

...Bass sails westwards along what is now the coast of the Gippsland region of Victoria, to Western Port Bay, almost as far as the site of present-day Melbourne.

His belief that a strait separates the mainland from Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) is backed up by his astute observation of the rapid tide and the long southwestern swell at Wilsons Promontory.

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