Port Victoria, South Australia

Port Victoria (formerly Wauraltee) is a town on the west coast of Yorke Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia.

The peak of the windjammer trade, the Great Grain Race, was in the 1930s; the last working sailing ships visited in 1949.

Port Victoria was visited by English travel author Eric Newby in 1939, while he was crew in the 4-masted barque Moshulu.

Newby wrote about his experiences on the round-trip from Ireland to South Australia in his book The Last Grain Race (1956), and several pictures of Port Victoria as it appeared in 1939 are included in his photo-essay of his voyage, Learning the Ropes.

Port Victoria is also the setting for Phillip Gwynne's classic Young Adult novel Deadly, Unna?