Victor Harbor Travel Guide
Victor Harbor accommodation, Victor Harbor activities and attractions, Victor Harbor maps, transportation to and around Victor Harbor - the ALL NEW Jasons Victor Harbor Destination Travel Guide is your complete visitor guide for Victor Harbor.
Victor Harbor is a thriving modern holiday destination which was once the main port of the South Australian coast and the access point for all goods travelling up and down the Murray River.
Victor Harbor was originally named Encounter Bay by Matthew Flinders in 1802, after his encounter with French Captain Nicolas Baudin, an event commemorated with a plaque at the summit of the Bluff (Rosetta Head). The Victor Harbor area was a major location for the whalers and sealers who plied the waters of the Southern Ocean, and by 1837 there was a whaling station on Granite Island.
Today Granite Island is reached by a causeway and Victor Harbor's popular horse-drawn tram service. Glacier Rock, 12km west, is 450 million-year-old exposed glacial sediment with an embedded boulder carried by ice movement when most of South Australia was covered in ice.
Geographic Location
80km south of Adelaide
Population
8,000
Climate
Cool temperate
Summer: 14 – 24°C
Winter: 8 – 16°C
Rainfall: 535mm/year (wettest months May – September)