Swell will be held at Fort Nepean on April 22 and 23, with buses leaving from Melbourne CBD and Balnarring. Bookings can be made online at www.swelllivemusic.com. Join the conversation.

Fort Nepean's Sergeant John Purdue fired first shot of World War I. By Jamie Duncan. August 4, 2014 — 3.00am. Save. Log in, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for later.

Point Nepean National Park. Credit: Ken Irwin Environmentalists have hailed a long-awaited plan for a Mornington Peninsula National Park as a victory against large-scale development on public land ...

THOUSANDS flocked to Fort Nepean yesterday to mark the 100th anniversary of the first shot fired by the British Empire in World War I. Yesterday, defence members repeated the chain of events from ...

The gunners at the Fort Nepean gun emplacement fired a warning shot across its bow, much to the surprise of Australian pilot Captain Montgomery Robinson, who was on board guiding the Pfalz out of ...

An Australian gunner at Port Phillip Heads fired the first Empire shot of WWI and his grandchildren will be among those honouring the event this week.

At Fort Nepean the dead-eyed F1 gun detachment begin loading another shell into their cannon. Highly trained, this first shot was supposed to miss: a warning. The next one won’t.

Point Nepean is 112km south of Melbourne on the Mornington Peninsula. Staying there: Discovery Tents are available from September to April and cost from A$124.80 (NZ$137.10) for two people. See ...

Point Nepean National Park, on the westernmost tip of Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, has housed countless soldiers, migrants and Kosovar refugees in the past 170 years.

Katrina Bromell , 44, of Hawthorn, a life and health coach who did the swim in February, is afraid of sharks, and on the boat across to Fort Nepean, the start point, she felt scared.

Around noon on August 5, 1914, a gun crew stationed at Fort Nepean on the Mornington Peninsula fired across the bow of German cargo steamer SS Pfalz. Local historian Keith Quitten says it was not ...

Yet on Tuesday, Carolyn and her twin brother John will be standing proudly at Fort Nepean for a ceremony from where their Pa fired that first shot — 100 years ago to the day — heralding a war ...