Corner Inlet

{{Short description|Bay in Victoria, Australia}}

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{{Infobox body of water

| name = Corner Inlet

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| image = Pied Oystercatcher on beach.jpg

| alt = A black and white bird with a long orange bill and pink legs walks amid sand and brown vegetation along the edge of a body of water

| caption = Corner Inlet is an important site for pied oystercatchers

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| location = South Gippsland, Victoria

| pushpin_map = Australia Victoria

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| pushpin_map_alt = A map of Victoria, Australia with a mark indicating the location of Corner Inlet

| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Victoria

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| coordinates_footnotes = {{Gazetteer of Australia|name=Corner Inlet (VIC)|feature=VIC13530}}

| coords = {{coord|38|45|57|S|146|20|21|E|type:waterbody_region:AU_region:AU-VIC|display=inline,title}}

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| inflow = {{unbulleted list|Albert River|Agnes River}}

| outflow = Bass Strait

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| basin_countries = Australia

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| area = {{convert|600|km2|abbr=on}}

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| islands = Snake, Sunday and Saint Margaret

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| designation1 = Ramsar

| designation1_date = 15 December 1982

| designation1_number = 261{{Cite web|title=Corner Inlet|website=Ramsar Sites Information Service|url=https://rsis.ramsar.org/ris/261|access-date=25 April 2018}}}}

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File:Corner Inlet, South Gippsland, Australia.jpg

The Corner Inlet is a {{convert|600|km2|adj=on}} bay located {{convert|200|km}} south-east of Melbourne in the South Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. Of Victoria's large bays it is both the easternmost and the warmest. It contains intertidal mudflats, mangroves, salt marsh and seagrass meadows, sheltered from the surf of Bass Strait by a complex of 40 sandy barrier islands, the largest of which are Snake, Sunday and Saint Margaret Islands.

The inlet is protected as a Ramsar site by the Nooramunga and Corner Inlet Marine and Coastal Parks, and by part of it lying within the {{convert|1550|ha|acre|adj=on}} Corner Inlet Marine National Park. The inlet adjoins Wilsons Promontory in the west, extends to Ninety Mile Beach in the east, and supports large numbers of migratory waders and other birds as well a rich marine flora and fauna.[http://www.parkweb.vic.gov.au/1park_display.cfm?park=256 Corner Inlet Marine National Park] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719211101/http://www.parkweb.vic.gov.au/1park_display.cfm?park=256 |date=19 July 2008 }}