Author: HILL, BARRY.
Title: The Enduring Rip, A History of Queenscliffe.
Description: First Edition; Square Post 4to; pp. x, 302; illustrated with numerous b/w. illustrations, bibliography, index, original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, fine copy. Carlton; Melbourne University Press; 2004. White settlement in Queenscliff was essential to the navigation of the treacherous heads of port Phillip Bay. In 1838 the first pilots operated in whale boats from Queenscliff, and by the time gold was discovered in the 1850s they were joined by a Health Officer and Customs Officer. By 1863 this maritime settlement was a proudly respectable municipality and soon afterwards a resort declared to be 'the Queen of the Watering Places', to which large steam ferries transported hundreds of people to the town's grand hotels. This first official history vividly weaves these threads together. It concludes with a challenging account of how the community of Queenscliffe successfully campaigned in 1993 to remain an autonomous municipality, a political state of affairs that makes its historical identity a living issue.

Keywords: Victorian Local History Queenscliffe Heads Port Phillip