Capel Sound
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Capel Sound is a suburb on the Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Template:Convert south of Melbourne's central business district, located within the Shire of Mornington Peninsula local government area. Capel Sound recorded a population of 5,246 at the 2021 census.<ref name=ABS2021/>
A distinguishing landmark feature of Capel Sound is the Tootgarook Swamp, the largest example left of a shallow freshwater marsh in the Port Phillip bay region. The swamp is also described by Melbourne Water as a ground water dependent ecosystem. The 381 hectare swamp is found on the lower section of the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia. A large portion of the Tootgarook Swamp is zoned as residential and industrial, with roughly half of the actual swamp inside the green wedge and half within the urban growth boundary.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
History
Rosebud West Post Office opened on 12 January 1938 and closed around 1996.<ref name = "a">Template:Citation</ref>
The town kept the name of the post office until an effort to change the name began in 2015. Proponents hoped a name change would distance the town from being seen as only an economically disadvantaged suburb of nearby Rosebud. About 56% of residents surveyed voted in favor of the name change. On 15 September 2016, Mornington Peninsula Shire Council officially changed the name from Rosebud West to Capel Sound.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The new name was derived from an 1836 survey chart of the area, and was already in use by local businesses such as The Capel Sound Shopping Village.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>