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Victor Harbor is a town in South Australia on the coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula, about 80 km south of the centre of Adelaide. 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, usually by Adelaide locals looking to escape the summer heat. It is a popular destination with South Australian high school graduates for their end of year celebrations, known colloquially as schoolies. == History == Traditionally home of the Ramindjeri clan of the Ngarrindjeri people, the bay on which Victor Harbor sits was discovered by Matthew Flinders in HMS ''Investigator'' in April 1802. As part of the first circumnavigation of the continent, Flinders was surveying the then unknown southern Australian coast from the west. He encountered Nicolas Baudin in ''Le Geographe'' near the Murray Mouth several kilometres to the east of the present day location of Victor Harbor. Baudin was surveying the coast from the east for Napoleonic France. Although their countries were at war, each captain was given documents by the other nation's Government, stating that the ships were on scientific missions, and were therefore not to be regarded as ships of war. Together, the ships returned to the bay and sheltered, while the captains compared notes. Flinders named the bay Encounter Bay after the meeting. In 1837 Captain Richard Crozier who was en route from Sydney to the Swan River Colony in command of the ''Cruizer''-class HMS ''Victor'',〔(HMS Victor, 1814 ), Index of 19th Century Naval Vessels, www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900〕 anchored just off Granite Island and named the sheltered waters in the lee of the island 'Victor Harbor' after his ship.〔South Australian State Gazeteer〕 About the same time two whaling stations were established, one at Rosetta Head (popularly known as "the Bluff") and the other near the point opposite Granite Island. Whale oil became South Australia’s first export. From 1839 the whaling station was managed for a time by Captain John Hart, a later Premier of South Australia. The town of Port Victor was laid out on the shores of Victor Harbor in 1863 when the horse-drawn tramway from Goolwa was extended to the harbour. The last whale was caught off Port Victor in 1872. 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. Despite the fact that ''harbour'' is normally spelt with a ''u'' in modern Australian English, the name of the city is spelt ''Victor Harbor''. This spelling, found in several geographical names in South Australia, including Outer Harbor, is the result of spelling errors made by an early Surveyor General of South Australia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.victor.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=295 )〕〔http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?c=8786〕 Conversely Victor Harbour railway station is spelt with the ''u''. At the start of the 20th Century, an attempt was made to make Port Victor, as it was then called, a main stop of mail-steamers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Victor Harbor, South Australia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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