Torquay (/tɔːrkiː/ tor-KEY) is a town in Surf Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia, which faces Bass Strait, 21 km south of Geelong and is the gateway to the Great Ocean Road.

It is bordered on the west by Spring Creek and its coastal features include Point Danger and Zeally Bay.

[citation needed] Torquay is situated on Wadawurrung country which is part of the Kulin nation that surrounds Port Phillip Bay.

[citation needed] From the 1860s, picnickers began to frequent the location, which was originally known as Spring Creek, after the watercourse along its south-western edge,[2] but it was named Puebla in the 1882 Victorian Municipal Directory.

In 1946, the Torquay Surf Life Saving Club was formed, opening their current clubrooms in 1971 after the previous one burnt down.

There was conflict between long-term residents and those behind some developments, in particular over the former Torquay Primary School site on Bristol and Boston Roads, which was sold by the government for luxury apartments and an expanded shopping centre,[8] instead of being retained for community uses.

[9] In 2001, The Sands golf club and residential development commenced construction to the north west of the town on the site of the former Torquay Tip, which closed in the early 1990s.

Torquay Primary School was once located in the 'old town', being moved across from St. Therese in October 2001.

[14] In October 2007, The new Torquay Police Station opened at the corner of the Surfcoast highway and central avenue.

It is now primarily residential, backing onto Spring Creek, where a proposed development with capacity for another 20,000 people was rejected in April 2009.

Walking access across the river to the football ground used to be difficult until in 2007 the shire built a footbridge connecting the reserve and the edge of the suburb, which is only around a 1.5 km radius.

[16] In 2004 the Zeally Bay caravan park had been sold by the owners due to increasing land tax costs, to a developer who said they would build a retirement village.

Soccer club Surf Coast FC play at Banyul Warri sporting precinct.