Cape Woolamai

Cape Woolamai is an urban area and a coastal State fauna reserve on the south-east of Phillip Island in Western Port Bay.

The end of the cape is a granite outcrop, joined to the island by substratum granite overlain by deep sands. In pre-settlement times most of the sandy soil supported coastal heath, tea tree and banksia. Dwarf vegetation covered the end of the cape. To the north there was grassy woodland, suited for grazing. John Cleeland settled there and built Woolamai House (1869), now a heritage listed building. By 1872 Cleeland owned all of Cape Woolamai.