Barwon Heads, Victoria: Difference between revisions

| pop = 34,875353

| pop_year = {{CensusAU|20162021}}

| pop_footnotes = <ref name="abs">{{Census 20162021 AUS|id=SSC20161|name=Barwon Heads (State Suburb)|accessdate=168 NovemberDecember 20172024 |quick=on}}</ref>

'''Barwon Heads''' (previously known as '''Point Flinders'''<ref name="CairnsPost">{{cite web |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article42799976 |title=Centenary Celebration Of Shipwreck : Memorial Service at Barwon Heads |work=[[The Cairns Post]] |date=5 December 1953 |accessdate=21 July 2012 |via=Trove}}</ref>) is a coastal township on the [[Bellarine Peninsula]], near [[Geelong]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], Australia. It is situated on the west bank of the mouth of the [[Barwon River (Victoria)|Barwon River]] below [[Lake Connewarre]], and is bounded to the west by farmland, [[golf course]]s and the saline [[ephemeral wetland]] of [[Murtnaghurt Lagoon]]. At the {{CensusAU|20162021}}, Barwon Heads had a population of 34,875353.<ref name=abs/>

The town has an [[Australian rules football]] team competing in the [[Bellarine Football League]].<ref name="d">{{Citation|publisher=Full Points Footy |title=Barwon Heads |url=http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/Barwon_Heads.htm |access-date=25 July 2008 |url-status=deadusurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516213336/http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/barwon_heads.htm |archive-date=May 16, 2008 }}</ref> It has made finals in a number of recent seasons, losing the grand final in an upset to Modewarre in 2018 but avenged that loss in 2019 winning its first premiership since 1993 by beating Torquay in the grand final.