The
Fleurieu Peninsula stretches from the outer edges of metropolitan
Adelaide down to Cape Jervis, where you can catch the ferry
to Kangaroo Island, and across the inland of conservation
parks and farmland to Lake Alexandrina and Lake Albert.
The
southern Fleurieu Peninsula was first mapped by Europeans
in 1802 with both Nicholas Baudin and Matthew Flinders travelling
the coastline. The French explorer Baudin named the Fleurieu
Peninsula after Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu, a French
explorer and statesman.
Sealers and whalers are credited as being the first Europeans
to establish semi-permanent habitation on the Fleurieu Peninsula
and Kangaroo Island in the early 1800s.
A
whaling station was built at Fishery Beach, near Cape Jervis
and operated in the mid 1840s. The station was closed in
1855 after ships were lost at sea, the number of whales
declined and petroleum oil became commercially available.
McLaren
Vale is one of Australia’s renowned wine regions,
famous for producing some of the best wines in the world,
and with about 80 cellar doors.
The
town of Strathalbyn was laid out by Dr John Rankine who
arrived in South Australia on the Fairfield on 4 May 1839.
One of the early industries was the mining of copper and
silver. It started in 1848 with the formation of the Strathalbyn
Mining Company. Transport between Adelaide and Strathalbyn
was provided by Cobb & Co and Hill & Co. stage coaches
and a tramway line to Victor Harbour was opened on 23 February
1869.
The
town of Port Victor (now Victor Harbor) was laid out on
the shores of Victor Harbor in 1863 when the horse-drawn
tramway from Goolwa was extended to the harbor. 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.
Victor
Harbor's most popular attraction is the horse-drawn tram
service which travels along the causeway (it was constructed
between 1878-82) which links Victor Harbor with Granite
Island.
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