Ninety Mile Beach, Victoria

False colour NASA landsat image of Ninety Mile Beach and the Gippsland Lakes

The Ninety Mile Beach is a sandy stretch of south-eastern coastline of Victoria, Australia along the Gippsland Lakes region of East Gippsland on Bass Strait. The beach starts at Seaspray and continues until Lakes Entrance. The beach is made up of long sandy dunes which separate the various lakes and lagoons from the ocean. The three main lakes are Lake King, Lake Victoria and Lake Wellington. The beach is just over 151 kilometres (94 miles) long running northeastward from a spit near Port Albert to the man-made channel at Lakes Entrance, passing the coastal towns of Woodside, Seaspray, Golden Beach, and Loch Sport. For the northern part of its route the beach runs along a sandbar on what amounts to a series of tidal islands and behind which are several large lakes and numerous shallow littoral lagoons. The area comprises the Gippsland Lakes Coastal Park.

The beach's length ensures that the waves break too close to the beach for good surfing, and there are strong rip currents and cross-currents making the conditions somewhat hazardous for the inexperienced swimmer. The local authorities recommend that swimmers stay in the patrolled stretches located at the various towns along the beach.

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The beach is a part of the Ninety Mile Beach Marine National Park, which covers 2,750 hectares and five kilometres of coastline, 30 kilometres south of Sale. There are basic camping facilities within the park at Emu Bight, as well as accommodation at Seaspray and Lakes Entrance.

Rotamah Island can be visited from Ninety Mile Beach, where there is a large bird observatory.

The beach is believed to be the third longest uninterrupted beach in the world (behind Praia do Cassino on the Brazilian southern coast and Padre Island on the US Gulf Coast).