Port Albert

Port Albert is located at Shipping Point on Corner Inlet, Gippsland, about 175 km south-east of Melbourne. Pastoralists moved into north Gippsland from the Monaro, New South Wales, from 1835. Searching for a port for easier access to markets, Angus McMillan reached the coast near the mouth of the Albert River in early 1841. Around the same time, the steamer Clonmel was wrecked nearby and rescuers carried reports of the area to Melbourne. The Gipps Land Company was quickly formed, mounting an expedition to Corner Inlet and establishing a depot at the mouth of the river.