| Shallow Inlet | |
| Location: | Wilsons Promontory, South Gippsland, Victoria |
| Pushpin Map: | Australia Victoria |
| Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
| Pushpin Map Alt: | A map of Victoria with a mark indicating the location of Shallow Inlet |
| Coords: | -38.8078°N 146.1489°W |
| Outflow: | Waratah Bay |
| Basin Countries: | Australia |
| Frozen: | never |
| Cities: | Sandy Point |
Shallow Inlet is a marine inlet, opening onto Waratah Bay on the western side of the Yanakie Isthmus in South Gippsland, Victoria, south-eastern Australia. It lies close to the small holiday communities of Sandy Point and Yanakie, as well as to Wilsons Promontory and the Wilsons Promontory National Park.
The inlet is a shallow, curving, 18 km2 tidal embayment with a single channel to the sea. On the seaward side it is enclosed by a barrier of sandy spits, bars and mobile dunes. The extensive intertidal mudflats and areas of sand provide habitat for waders, or shorebirds. Fringing the mudflats are areas of saltmarsh.[1]
The inlet has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports over 1% of the world populations of double-banded plovers and red-necked stints, and has supported the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot.[2] Other birds recorded as using the site in significant numbers include eastern curlews, Pacific golden plovers, curlew sandpipers and sanderlings.