Explore Banksia Peninsula, Victoria, Australia, with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Banksia Peninsula, VIC map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — Geoscience Australia topographic mapping and the classic NATMAP 1:250 000 sheets — plus a labelled MGA grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below. You will find live weather, local and world news further down the page.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Banksia Peninsula, Victoria, Australia. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
Drag the map to pan to any area of Victoria or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Banksia Peninsula and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the Geoscience Australia National Base Map — seamless topographic mapping covering the mainland, Tasmania and the external territories. NATMAP 250K shows the classic NATMAP 1:250 000 map sheets, mosaicked nationwide — the printed sheets generations of Australians navigated the outback with. The search box finds any Australian town, suburb or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Banksia Peninsula.
Reading the map like a paper sheet. Click Grid to overlay the Map Grid of Australia (MGA), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as an MGA grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — the grid reference being what emergency services and search and rescue work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need mobile coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load, which across much of inland Australia is most of the time.
Map search is available for a limited number of queries per session to manage costs. Be specific — search precisely for best results.
| Locality | Banksia Peninsula |
| State | Victoria (VIC) |
| Local Government Area | East Gippsland Shire |
| Country | Australia |
| Timezone | Australian Eastern Time (AEST/AEDT) |
| Remoteness | Outer Regional Australia |
| Latitude | -37.94978 |
| Longitude | 147.68159 |
| Area | 1.6 km² |
| Elevation | 11 m |
| Postcode | 3875 |
| Area Code | 03 |
| Distance to Melbourne | 239 km east |
Banksia Peninsula is a locality in the East Gippsland Shire local government area of Victoria, Australia. The locality covers an area of 1.6 km². It sits at an elevation of around 11 m above sea level. It lies approximately 239 km east of Melbourne. Banksia Peninsula is located at 37.9498°S, 147.6816°E. It observes Australian Eastern Time (AEST/AEDT). Postcode: 3875. The Australian Bureau of Statistics classifies the area as Outer Regional Australia.
Banksia Peninsula unfolds as a land sculpted by water and wind, a delicate fringe of Australia's eastern seaboard where the Gippsland Lakes meet the Tasman Sea. It lies 105.5 km east-north-east of Traralgon, VIC (from Traralgon, VIC: bearing 75°T), and is situated 12.7 km south-south-east of Bairnsdale. The landscape here is a study in subtle transitions: saltmarshes, their emerald hues softened by the salty air, give way to stands of coastal banksias, their iconic, gnarled branches reaching towards the sky like ancient hands. The earth itself feels porous, a sandy loam that readily absorbs the generous rainfall, supporting a hardy scrubland that hums with the quiet industry of insects and the distant calls of seabirds. Evenings here are painted with a particular luminescence, a pearlescent glow that spills across the shallow waters, blurring the edges of reed beds and turning the distant haze of the ocean into a silken veil.
The history of Banksia Peninsula is as interwoven with its waterways as the reeds are with the mud. This land has long been a place of sustenance and passage, its shores bearing the faint echoes of Indigenous custodians who understood its rhythms. Later, European settlers found a different kind of wealth here, not in gold or timber, but in the bounty of the sea and the fertile, if challenging, land. Small fishing fleets once plied these waters, their catches contributing to the humble economy that still relies on the sea's generosity, alongside grazing properties that dot the hinterland, their sheep and cattle grazing on the tough coastal grasses. Today, while the pace remains unhurried, a gentle tourism threads through the community, drawn by the pristine beaches and the quiet allure of this coastal sanctuary, a place where the land whispers its stories to those who pause to listen.
Sources: curated tourist landmarks, CAPAD 2024 (Australian protected areas), OpenStreetMap.
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This page provides a street and satellite map of Banksia Peninsula, Victoria. Live weather conditions with current observations and a 7-day forecast are powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time local news and world news feeds keep the page current, while an editorially written description provides background on Banksia Peninsula, in the East Gippsland Shire local government area.
Detailed location data for Banksia Peninsula includes the postcode (3875), telephone area code (03), and local government area (East Gippsland Shire), with an ABS remoteness classification of Outer Regional Australia. These are among the most commonly searched location details for any Australian city, town or locality.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any Australian town, suburb or landmark by name; offers Geoscience Australia topographic mapping and the classic NATMAP 1:250 000 sheets as base layers; overlays a labelled Map Grid of Australia (MGA) so the map can be read like a printed topographic sheet; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as an MGA grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require mobile coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from Geoscape Administrative Boundaries (GDA2020) and enriched with GeoNames and Australian Bureau of Statistics data, matched by coordinate proximity — ensuring the correct Banksia Peninsula is identified even where the name is shared across multiple localities.
| Page generated | October 2026 |
| Location data | Geoscape Administrative Boundaries (GDA2020); enriched with GeoNames and ABS 2021 Census data, matched by coordinate proximity |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; © Geoscience Australia National Base Map and NATMAP 1:250 000 (CC BY 4.0); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Description | Editorial description generated with AI assistance from verified Geoscape, ABS and GeoNames location data. |