Arthurs Seat State Park in Dromana, Shire of Mornington Peninsula, Australia | Nature Reserve

Welcome to Arthurs Seat State Park, Dromana, Australia. Matthew Flinders was the first European to climb Arthurs Seat, Dromana after his ship entered the heads while making his circumnavigation of Australia in 1802. The first owner of Seawinds was Mr Chapman, a gardener at a nearby homestead. The garden was developed by Sir Thomas and Lady Travers in the 1940s who planned to build a house there. This ambition was never achieved and the area was declared a state park in 1975.

Arthurs Seat State Park is a protected habitat for many species of birds and animals including koalas, kangaroos, ringtail and brushtail possums, honeyeaters, lorikeets and eastern rosellas.

Vegetation in Arthurs Seat State Park varies from sheoak and messmate woodland on the northern slopes to manna gum and swamp gum forests. Unfortunately some areas have been invaded by environmental weeds such as boneseed, pittosporum and Western Australian bluebell creeper. Strategies developed to deal with weed eradication have benefited from a high level of support from Friends Groups and volunteers.