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Port Victoria (formerly Wauraltee) is a town on the west coast of Yorke Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia. At the 2006 census, Port Victoria had a population of 345. Like many other coastal towns on the peninsula, it has a jetty and used to be a thriving port for the export of grain to England. Its anchorage is sheltered from westerly weather by nearby Wardang Island. The windjammers carrying the bagged grain called at Falmouth, England or Queenstown, Ireland for orders of where the grain was to be taken. Many of the smaller ports were visited only by coastal ketches and schooners. Port Victoria also had an anchorage offshore for the larger windjammers. These were loaded from the ketches which were in turn loaded at the jetty. The peak of the windjammer trade, the Great

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  • Port Victoria (Australia) (it)
  • Port Victoria, South Australia (en)
  • Port Victoria (pl)
  • Port Victoria, South Australia (sv)
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  • Port Victoria – miasto w Australii, w stanie Australia Południowa. (pl)
  • Port Victoria är en ort i Australien. Den ligger i kommunen Yorke Peninsula och delstaten South Australia, omkring 110 kilometer nordväst om delstatshuvudstaden Adelaide. Antalet invånare är 1 100. Runt Port Victoria är det mycket glesbefolkat, med 2 invånare per kvadratkilometer.. Port Victoria är det största samhället i trakten. Trakten runt Port Victoria består till största delen av jordbruksmark. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är 583 millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är juni, med i genomsnitt 111 mm nederbörd, och den torraste är januari, med 12 mm nederbörd. (sv)
  • Port Victoria (formerly Wauraltee) is a town on the west coast of Yorke Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia. At the 2006 census, Port Victoria had a population of 345. Like many other coastal towns on the peninsula, it has a jetty and used to be a thriving port for the export of grain to England. Its anchorage is sheltered from westerly weather by nearby Wardang Island. The windjammers carrying the bagged grain called at Falmouth, England or Queenstown, Ireland for orders of where the grain was to be taken. Many of the smaller ports were visited only by coastal ketches and schooners. Port Victoria also had an anchorage offshore for the larger windjammers. These were loaded from the ketches which were in turn loaded at the jetty. The peak of the windjammer trade, the Great (en)
  • Port Victoria è un villaggio costiero dell'Australia nello Stato dell'Australia Meridionale. Si trova sul golfo di Spencer, nella parte meridionale della penisola di Yorke, circa 190 km a ovest di Adelaide. Nel 2006 contava 345 abitanti. Nel 1933 la nave a vela Parma partì da Port Victoria con un carico di cereali e raggiunse il porto di Falmouth in Inghilterra in 83 giorni, un record per allora. La principale attrazione turistica di Port Victoria è il "Port Victoria Windjammer Museum", un museo dedicato all'epoca delle navi windjammer. (it)
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  • Port Victoria (en)
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