Bass
- Local Government Area
- Bass Coast
- Postcode
- 3991
- Population
- 405
- Area
- 49.19 km²
- Coordinates
- -38.4767, 145.4658
- Data
- Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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About Bass
Bass (/ˈbæs/) is a town 113 kilometres (70 mi) south-east of Melbourne via the South Gippsland and Bass Highways, in the Bass Coast Shire of Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 census, Bass had a population of 405. The town is named after George Bass who explored and named Western Port bay in 1798 in a small whaling boat and sailed some distance up the Bass River.
Description from Wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nearby localities
- Coronet Bay 5 km
- Anderson 5 km
- Woolamai 6 km
- Corinella (Vic.) 6 km
- Glen Forbes 6 km
- Tenby Point 7 km