Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
There are many weird and wonderful boundaries and borders around Melbourne and Victoria caused by everything from surveying errors to erosion. In this video we look at five of the strangest in our state including a centuries-long border dispute and the only land border of Tasmania.
I don't have a thumbnail of me looking confused.
00:00 Intro
00:29 McCabe Corner
02:49 Boundary Islet
03:52 Murray River Course Changes
04:42 Murray River Islands
05:40 Murrindindi Shire Exclave
06:24 Summary
-------------
MORE INFORMATION
My website: philipmallis.com
-------------
SOURCES
THUMBNAIL: 'The South Australia-Victoria Border Anomaly', OpenStreetMap Contributors & User:SCHolar44. 2021. Wikimedia Commons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_South_Australia-Victoria_border_anomaly.tif?page=1
Google Earth, 2025
Bing Maps, 2025
© OpenStreetMap Contributors, 2025
'Locator map for Victoria, Australia', User:Chuq. Wikimedia Commons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Australia_locator_Vic.png
' Location map of Victoria, Australia showing LGA names and styles', User: NordNordWest & User:Cassowary. Wikimedia Commons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Australia_Victoria_with_LGA_names.svg
' Map of the change to the formative colonies of Australia on 25 April 1787', User:Golbez. 25 October 2017. Wikimedia Commons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Australia_change_1787-04-25.png
'Map of the change to the founding colonies of Australia on 28 December 1836', User:Golbez. 25 October 2017. Wikimedia Commons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Australia_change_1836-02-19.png
' Map showing the location of the 141st meridian west, defining the border between Australian states', User:Bazonka. 28 September 2012. Wikimedia Commons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:141st_meridian_Aus.svg
'C.J. Tyers who marked the boundary between Victoria & South Aust.'. State Library of New South Wales. https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/16AQrEQn
Manning, Geoffrey H., 'South Australia - State boundaries'. State Library South Australia. https://manning.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/sa/stbound/stbound.htm
' South Australia loses a strip of land to Victoria from mistaken 19th Century survey of the 141st meridian border'. AdelaideAZ. adelaideaz.com/articles/south-australia-loses-a-strip-of-land-to-victoria-in-mistaken-19th-century-survey-of-the-141st-meridian-border-
BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN Victoria and South Australia. (1874, July 11). Weekly Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1872 - 1878), p. 8, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article233294509
VICTORIA AND SOUTH AUSTRALIA. (1894, August 4). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 7, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8691180
DISPUTED BOUNDARY (1911, February 22). The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), p. 9., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5247890
DISPUTED BOUNDARY. SOUTH AUSTRALIA FAILS. (1911, May 23). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 9. Retrieved March 16, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10903982
Whitcombe, Thomas. (1798). Departure of the whaler Britannia from Sydney Cove, 1798 from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-134108884
Personalities - George Bass, explorer. National Archives of Australia. Item ID 11874642. https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/DetailsReports/PhotoDetail.aspx?Barcode=11874642
Wheeler, Tony, 'Erith Island & Bass Strait'. 13 January 2019. https://tonywheeler.com.au/erith-island-bass-strait/
Gabriel-Jones, David, 'Lex Walks from Victoria to Tasmania'. 20 September 2016. The Public Land Consultancy. https://www.publicland.com.au/sites/default/files/lex_walks_to_tassie_19_september_2016.pdf
Pollock, Marian, 'Clouds over the Murray River - Explored'. 30 November 2021. flickr.com/photos/marianweiler/51715277658
Deutscher, Rob, 'Murray River'. 27 April 2018. flickr.com/photos/bobarc/40829440145
Morton, John, 'Little Murray River, Swan Hill, Victoria'. 17 May 2020. flickr.com/photos/184659367@N07/49904053357
Murray, Crystal A, '30 Seconds of Peace'. 15 August 2015. flickr.com/photos/crystalwriter/20396940510
'Amy Outdoors', 'Murray River Floods 29 Nov 2022 - Riverland, SA - Lyrup to Berri'. 1 December 2022. youtube.com/watch?v=AZ0xsPsKi1c
Daly, Martin, 'From the Archives, 1992: Victoria, NSW border dispute ends after 141 years'. 11 September 1992. The Age. https://www.smh.com.au/national/from-the-archives-1992-victoria-nsw-border-dispute-ends-after-141-years-20190906-p52ooo.html
'Pental Island'. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pental_Island
-------------
I acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands on which this video was filmed, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people. I pay respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and their extensive and continuing connection to land, water and country.
There are many weird and wonderful boundaries and borders around Melbourne and Victoria caused by everything from surveying errors to erosion. In this video we look at five of the strangest in our state including a centuries-long border dispute and the only land border of Tasmania.
I don't have a thumbnail of me looking confused.
00:00 Intro
00:29 McCabe Corner
02:49 Boundary Islet
03:52 Murray River Course Changes
04:42 Murray River Islands
05:40 Murrindindi Shire Exclave
06:24 Summary
-------------
MORE INFORMATION
My website: philipmallis.com
-------------
SOURCES
THUMBNAIL: 'The South Australia-Victoria Border Anomaly', OpenStreetMap Contributors & User:SCHolar44. 2021. Wikimedia Commons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_South_Australia-Victoria_border_anomaly.tif?page=1
Google Earth, 2025
Bing Maps, 2025
© OpenStreetMap Contributors, 2025
'Locator map for Victoria, Australia', User:Chuq. Wikimedia Commons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Australia_locator_Vic.png
' Location map of Victoria, Australia showing LGA names and styles', User: NordNordWest & User:Cassowary. Wikimedia Commons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Australia_Victoria_with_LGA_names.svg
' Map of the change to the formative colonies of Australia on 25 April 1787', User:Golbez. 25 October 2017. Wikimedia Commons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Australia_change_1787-04-25.png
'Map of the change to the founding colonies of Australia on 28 December 1836', User:Golbez. 25 October 2017. Wikimedia Commons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Australia_change_1836-02-19.png
' Map showing the location of the 141st meridian west, defining the border between Australian states', User:Bazonka. 28 September 2012. Wikimedia Commons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:141st_meridian_Aus.svg
'C.J. Tyers who marked the boundary between Victoria & South Aust.'. State Library of New South Wales. https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/16AQrEQn
Manning, Geoffrey H., 'South Australia - State boundaries'. State Library South Australia. https://manning.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/sa/stbound/stbound.htm
' South Australia loses a strip of land to Victoria from mistaken 19th Century survey of the 141st meridian border'. AdelaideAZ. adelaideaz.com/articles/south-australia-loses-a-strip-of-land-to-victoria-in-mistaken-19th-century-survey-of-the-141st-meridian-border-
BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN Victoria and South Australia. (1874, July 11). Weekly Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1872 - 1878), p. 8, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article233294509
VICTORIA AND SOUTH AUSTRALIA. (1894, August 4). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 7, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8691180
DISPUTED BOUNDARY (1911, February 22). The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), p. 9., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5247890
DISPUTED BOUNDARY. SOUTH AUSTRALIA FAILS. (1911, May 23). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 9. Retrieved March 16, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10903982
Whitcombe, Thomas. (1798). Departure of the whaler Britannia from Sydney Cove, 1798 from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-134108884
Personalities - George Bass, explorer. National Archives of Australia. Item ID 11874642. https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/DetailsReports/PhotoDetail.aspx?Barcode=11874642
Wheeler, Tony, 'Erith Island & Bass Strait'. 13 January 2019. https://tonywheeler.com.au/erith-island-bass-strait/
Gabriel-Jones, David, 'Lex Walks from Victoria to Tasmania'. 20 September 2016. The Public Land Consultancy. https://www.publicland.com.au/sites/default/files/lex_walks_to_tassie_19_september_2016.pdf
Pollock, Marian, 'Clouds over the Murray River - Explored'. 30 November 2021. flickr.com/photos/marianweiler/51715277658
Deutscher, Rob, 'Murray River'. 27 April 2018. flickr.com/photos/bobarc/40829440145
Morton, John, 'Little Murray River, Swan Hill, Victoria'. 17 May 2020. flickr.com/photos/184659367@N07/49904053357
Murray, Crystal A, '30 Seconds of Peace'. 15 August 2015. flickr.com/photos/crystalwriter/20396940510
'Amy Outdoors', 'Murray River Floods 29 Nov 2022 - Riverland, SA - Lyrup to Berri'. 1 December 2022. youtube.com/watch?v=AZ0xsPsKi1c
Daly, Martin, 'From the Archives, 1992: Victoria, NSW border dispute ends after 141 years'. 11 September 1992. The Age. https://www.smh.com.au/national/from-the-archives-1992-victoria-nsw-border-dispute-ends-after-141-years-20190906-p52ooo.html
'Pental Island'. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pental_Island
-------------
I acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands on which this video was filmed, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people. I pay respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and their extensive and continuing connection to land, water and country.
