Sunday, April 03, 2005

Port Fairy

Town, Victoria, Australia. It lies at the mouth of the Moyne River, on a headland east of Portland Bay (an inlet of the Indian Ocean). A settlement established there in 1835 was called Belfast for a time until it was renamed for a ship, the Fairy, that had sheltered in its harbour in 1810. Port Fairy became Victoria's first municipality (1852) and was proclaimed a borough in 1863. Connected to Melbourne

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home