Loch Sport
Loch Sport is a town situated on the Ninety Mile Beach and Lake Victoria in Central Gippsland, eastern Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 census, it had a permanent resident population of 1020. This is an increase of 206 from the 2016 census.
History
Before European settlement, the area was used for hunting and fishing, and the collection of water yams and other vegetable food. Some of their descendants still live in regional townships. Aboriginal middens are still present.In the 19th century British settlers cleared the land and began farming. Sandy soils dominate the flat coastal heath scrubland, which is surrounded by brackish lakes on the north and Bass Strait on the south. Later in the 19th century Melburnians discovered the recreational potential of the lakes—fishing, swimming and boating—and by the beginning of the 20th century Loch Sport was accessible via a dirt track, with plots of land surveyed for the nascent township. With increasing use of private cars, more people bought property in the town which, in 1980, was one of the last Victorian towns to receive electricity.