Cheviot Beach, Victoria

Cheviot Beach, Victoria

Cheviot Beach is a beach near Point Nepean in Victoria, Australia. It was named after the "SS Cheviot" which broke up and sank nearby with the loss of 35 lives on 20 October 1897. [cite web | title = SS Cheviot | work = Heritage Register Victoria|url =http://www.heritage.vic.gov.au/page_239.asp?submit_action=detailed_result&ID=239&KW1=cheviot&query=e82db8dc6517362a4a25678b00095532/110c117aa8d6b6baca2572fb00009be1?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,cheviot] On 17 December 1967, Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared, and presumably drowned, while swimming at the beach.

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