On the return trip, the party encountered marooned sailors along the Victorian coast from the wreck of the ship Sydney Cove south of Victoria at Preservation Island, Tasmania.
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The traditional custodians of the land surrounding Wingan Inlet are the Australian Aboriginal Bidhawal and Nindi-Ngudjam Ngarigu Monero peoples.
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Wingan Inlet is of historical significance, as it is almost certainly the lagoon, 'one mile north of Rame Head,' where Dr George Bass reputedly became the first European to set foot on the Victorian shoreline on 20 January 1798, during his first expedition south of Sydney to establish the relationship of Tasmania to the Australian mainland, with the encouragement of John Hunter, the Governor of New South Wales.
Cook Inlet | Beaufort Inlet | Rankin Inlet | Pond Inlet | Teal Inlet | Ocracoke Inlet | Murrells Inlet, South Carolina | Case Inlet steamboats | Burrard Inlet | Bathurst Inlet | Aireys Inlet | Wingan Inlet | Shinnecock Inlet | Sebastian Inlet | Ponce Inlet, Florida | Hamilton Inlet | Geikie Inlet | Chesterfield Inlet | Budd Inlet | Anderson Inlet's intertidal mudflats are of world importance for Red-necked Stint | Admiralty Inlet |
In Australia it is found in bays, inlets and sheltered estuaries from Wingan Inlet in eastern Victoria, along the east coast of New South Wales and up to Hervey Bay Queensland.