Port Victoria Maritime Museum

Point of Interest

Contact

Victoria Terrace, Port Victoria, South Australia.

(08) 8834 2068

Description

Only open on weekends and public holidays 2pm to 4pm. This maritime museum has signage and displays paying tribute to the Cape Horners and the Australian Cape Horners in particular. The museum is known for its displays of shipwreck artifacts from around Wardang Island. The First Encounters Display provides information on the local Narungga indigenous people and their culture, the charting of the Spencer Gulf by Matthew Flinders and Nicholas Baudin, as well as the setting up of the large sheep pastoral leases on the Yorke Peninsula in the nineteenth century.

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Location

Lat: -34.496088 Lng: 137.48241


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