Arthurs Seat State Park, State park and nature reserve in Victoria, Australia
Arthurs Seat State Park is a state park and nature reserve on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia, established in 1978. It lies in the Mornington Peninsula region, about 500 km southwest of Canberra, and its terrain rises to 144 metres above sea level, with the nearest sea to the south and Mornington about 15.7 km to the north.
The park takes its name from the hill that explorer John Murray named in the early 1800s after Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh, which he felt it resembled when viewed from the water. More recently, a quarry proposal for the area was rejected, keeping the bushland open as a corridor for wildlife.
The park lies within the traditional country of the Bunurong people, and Parks Victoria acknowledges their ongoing connection to the land. Near the summit, Seawinds Garden was opened in 2003 as a memorial garden, with a rose garden, a hedge maze and a lookout over Port Phillip Bay.
The park is about an hour's drive south of Melbourne, with road signs guiding visitors up toward the summit. Those without a car can take a train to Frankston and then a bus toward Dromana, from where the main trails are reachable on foot or by gondola.
Arthurs Seat State Park was declared on 16 May 1978 and is classed as an IUCN category III natural monument or feature. The park sits about 500 km southwest of Canberra, and the hill country around it rises to 258 m within roughly a kilometre of the boundary.
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