Black Rock is a suburb in Melbourne in Victoria in Australia . It is located about 18 km south-east of Melbourne's "Central Business District". It belongs to the Bayside City administrative region . At the 2016 census, Black Rock had 6,159 residents.
The suburb was named after Black Rock House , a large residence of rancher and MP Charles Ebden from 1856. The northern part of the village between Beach Road and Bluff Road was one of the first settlements in the Moorabbin community of Josiah Holloway in the 1850s. The city was called 'Bluff Town', was initially sparsely populated and grew sparse.
The first post office in the region was in Red Bluff in the north. It was opened on April 17, 1901 and closed in 1969. In Black Rock, the first official post office opened (renamed Half Moon Bay) on April 23, 1902, and closed in 1922. The second Black Rock Post opened in 1922 near the corner of Bluff Street and Balcombe Road.
coast
One of the most notable parts of the Black Rock coast is the 'Red Bluff'. This part got its name from the oxidizing iron that looked burned and has an orange color. There are beaches on both sides of the coast, including 'Half Moon Bay'. This bay was suitable as a marina and a branch of the Brighton Yacht Club was formed there in the 1890s . In 1919 the 'Black Rock Yacht Club' was finally established.
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