VICTOR HARBOUR
Victor Harbour is the next town
encounted when traveling to Kangaroo Island. Once again this a nice
coastal resort and is also deemed a city?? Victor Harbour is also an
Adelaide retirement centre and a stroll in the streets reveals plenty
of grey hair on the makeup of the population.
Victor Harbor sits was
discovered by Matthew Flinders in the HMS Investigator in April
1802. Flinders was surveying the then unknown southern Australian
coast from the west. He encountered Nicolas Baudin in the Le Geographe
near the Murray Mouth several kilometers to the east of the present
day location of Victor Harbor. Flinders named the bay Encounter Bay.

In 1837 Captain Richard
Crozier who was en-route from Sydney to the Swan River Colony in
command of the Cruizer-class “HMS Victor”, anchored just off
Granite Island and named the sheltered waters in the lee of the island
'Port Victor ' after his ship. The town's name was changed to 'Victor
Harbor' in 1921; as a result, it is said, of a near shipwreck blamed
on confusion with Port Victoria in the Yorke Peninsula.
Victor Harbour is a ‘city’
where history and heritage 
is important and this evidenced by the Victor Harbour War Memorial.
The trees almost 100 years old and planted in acknowledgement of the
fallen in WW1.   
The Impact of the strong
Methodist influence is also apparent.  
The Anglican
and Catholic
also being great design churches.
The Hotels are all century
classics.  
Clearly the holiday style and resort pubs.
When visiting Victor
Harbour be sure to allow a day or two.
Heritage diary 
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