Mount Martha is a seaside town in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 60 kilometres south-east of Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the Shire of Mornington Peninsula. It is on the south-eastern shores of Port Phillip and offers a bathing beach. A boardwalk winds its way for more than 5 kilometres along the Balcombe Creek, its North beach mouth to the Briars Historic Park. The suburb's highest point bears the area's name and reaches 160 metres . The peak was named after Martha Lonsdale, the wife of the colonist William Lonsdale. It marks the start of the Selwyn fault, a geological formation which runs to the eastern Dandenong Ranges.
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