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Hobsons Bay is a municipality formed on 22 June, 1994, by the union of Altona and Williamstown cities, Laverton (part of Werribee city) and southern parts of Footscray city. It has river and maritime boundaries comprising the mouths of the Maribyrnong and Yarra rivers, the western shore of Hobsons Bay (which is at the head of Port Phillip Bay), and the north-western shore of Port Phillip Bay. Its area is 64 sq. km.

The name came from William Hobson (1793-1842), Commander of HMAS Rattlesnake, which brought the first government officials from New South Wales to the Port Phillip settlement in 1836. Hobson surveyed Port Phillip and Hobsons Bays, and Governor Sir Richard Bourke named Hobsons Bay after him on 10 April, 1837. On the same day the principal town on the bay, Williamstown, was also named by Bourke.

Hobsons Bay has Williamstown on its west, then the mouth of the Yarra River, Port Melbourne and the Albert Park and St. Kilda foreshores on its east. Naming the former western-suburbs councils "Hobsons Bay"was slightly inaccurate, as only one of them adjoins Hobsons Bay.

The majority of the Port of Melbourne's wharf and maritime freight facilities are in Hobsons Bay as the port has moved downstream from the Yarra River.

Hobsons Bay city is moderately prosperous in the Williamstown section, with the median weekly income for residents 15 years or more being $309 (metropolitan median $311) in 1996. The balance of Hobsons Bay had a median weekly income of $278.

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