Population 4,579 (2011) State electorate(s) Nepean Area 4.6 km² Federal division Division of Flinders | Postcode(s) 3940 Capel Sound (formerly Rosebud West) Rosebud Postal code 3940 | |
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Location 79 km (49 mi) from Melbourne
4 km (2 mi) from Rosebud LGA(s) Shire of Mornington Peninsula | ||
Capel Sound (formerly Rosebud West) is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its local government area is the Shire of Mornington Peninsula.
Map of Rosebud West VIC 3940, Australia
A distinguishing landmark feature of Capel Sound is the Tootgarook Swamp, the largest example left of a shallow freshwater marsh in the Port Phillip bay region. The swamp is also described by Melbourne water as a ground water dependent ecosystem. The 381 hectare swamp is found on the lower section of the Mornington Peninsula, called the Nepean Peninsula in Victoria, Australia. A large portion of the Tootgarook Swamp is inappropriately zoned as residential and industrial, with roughly half of the actual swamp inside the green wedge and half within the urban growth boundary.
Rosebud West Post Office opened on 12 January 1938 and closed around 1996.
On 15 September 2016 Mornington Peninsula Shire Council officially changed the name from Rosebud West to Capel Sound.