Mentone Beach
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Mentone Beach | |
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Beach | |
 Mentone Beach outside Life saving club | |
 Interactive map of Mentone Beach | |
| Coordinates: 37°59′06″S 145°04′08″E / 37.98500°S 145.06889°E | |
| Location | Mentone, Victoria |
| Dimensions | |
| • Length | 1.6 km |
| Patrolled by | Mentone Lifesaving Club |
| Hazard rating | 3/10 (Moderately hazardous) |
| Access | Beach Road, Mentone |
Mentone Beach is a beach located in Mentone, on Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia, 21 kilometres south from the Melbourne City Centre.[1] Mentone beach is the northern section of a beach that extends alongside Beaumaris Bay from the cliffs at Rickett's Point in Beaumaris to Frankston in the south on the eastern shoreline of Port Phillip Bay.
Mentone Beach is one of the Port Phillip Bay beaches associated with the Heidelberg School of Australian artists.[2]
Mentone Beach was formed when Port Phillip sunklands in southern Victoria were inundated to form Port Phillip Bay. The inundation was triggered in part by the Selwyn Fault on the east and the Rowsley Fault on the west side of the bay.[3] The Beaumaris Monocline is a geological feature which is expressed in the cliffs near Beaumaris and Rickett's Point at the northern end of Mentone Beach. This structure controls the coastal indentation, and therefore the Mentone and Mordialloc beaches, which lie due south of Rickett's Point.[4]
Seagull rock is a large rock in the shallow water off the beach. It is home to albatrosses, cormorants and seagulls.
OzCoast, the Geoscience Australia Online Coastal Information Database, describes[5] Mentone Beach as:
| Length (km) | 1.6 |
| Orientation (degree) | 210 |
| Embaymentisation[6] | 1.0 |
| Number of bars | 3 |
| Wave height (m) | 0.4 |
| Wave period (sec) | 5.0 |
| Tide station | Melbourne |
| Spring tide (m) | 0.8 |
| Neap tide (m) | 0.2 |
