Cowes

Cowes ( 38°27′S, 145°14′E) is a small town on Phillip Island in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. The town was originally known as Mussel Rocks. In 1865, a government surveyor Henry Cox returned from a holiday retreat in England. He renamed the town after the seaport town of Cowes on the Isle of Wight, England. Cowes is the main township on Phillip Island. It is less than 2 hours drive from Melbourne and can also be reached by ferry from Stony Point on the Mornington Peninsula. At the 2001 census, Cowes had a population of 3,494.[2]