Arthurs Seat is a mountainous and small locality on the Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, about 85 km south east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shir
View from Arthurs Seat towards Port Phillip heads
McCrae Homestead, a heritage-listed cottage on the pastoral run of Arthur's Seat, built in c. 1844
The abandoned building at the base of Arthurs seat, now demolished, in 2014
View from the summit lookout of Arthurs Seat, Victoria, Australia. 2014.
McCrae is a suburb on the Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 59 km south of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Mornington Peninsula local governmen
Arthurs Seat, Victoria
…first applied to the mountain range, then to a squatting run, next to the pre-emptive right, then to land allotments in the area that is now the suburb McCrae, and currently to the suburb at the summit of the range. It was named by Acting Lieutenant John Murray when he entered Port Phillip in HMS Lady Nelson…
The former lighthouse at McCrae, viewed from a drone in 2025
McCrae Homestead in 1979, prior to restoration