Victor Harbor is a city located on the coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula, located 80km south of Adelaide, South Australia. The city is the largest population centre on the peninsula, with an economy based upon agriculture, fisheries and various industries. It is also a highly popular tourist destination, with the city's population greatly expanded during the summer holidays.
The sheltered bay on which Victor Harbor sits was discovered by Matthew Fl...
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Victor Harbor is a city located on the coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula, located 80km south of Adelaide, South Australia. The city is the largest population centre on the peninsula, with an economy based upon agriculture, fisheries and various industries. It is also a highly popular tourist destination, with the city's population greatly expanded during the summer holidays.
The sheltered bay on which Victor Harbor sits was discovered by Matthew Flinders in the HMS Investigator in April of 1802. Flinders was surveying the then unknown South Australian coast from the West. He then encountered Nicolas Baudin in the Le Geographic near the Murray Mouth several kilometers to the east of the present day location Victor Harbor. Baudin was surveying the coast from the East for Napoleonic France. The ships returned to the bay and sheltered while the captains, whose countries were at war, compared notes. Flinders named the bay Encounter Bay after the meeting.
In 1837 two whaling stations were...
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