SEACHANGE Barwon Heads, Victoria, Australia 'The township of Barwon Heads was surveyed in 1827 but remained sparsely populated for years. Fishing was the mainstay of the town in its early years. In the 1920s and 1930s the town became a popular holiday resort and a number of the richer families of Melbourne built houses here. In 1959 the closing scenes of the film On the Beach based on a Nevil Shute novel about the end of the world were filmed in the town. During the late 1990s, Barwon…
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