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Port Fairy, the Glossary

Port Fairy (historically known as Belfast) is a coastal town in south-western Victoria, Australia.^[1]

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Ports and harbours of Victoria (state)
Whaling in Australia

Aboriginal Australians

Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.

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Aboriginal Victorians

Aboriginal Victorians, the Aboriginal Australians of Victoria, Australia, occupied the land for tens of thousands of years prior to European settlement.

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Anna Goldsworthy

Anna Louise Goldsworthy is an Australian classical pianist, writer, academic, playwright, and librettist, known for her 2009 memoir Piano Lessons.

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Artistic director

An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre company or dance company, who handles the organization's artistic direction.

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Australian rules football, also called Australian football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground.

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Banksia

Banksia is a genus of around 170 species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae.

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Belfast

Belfast (from Béal Feirste) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel.

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Brian Dunlop

Brian Dunlop (1938–2009) was a still life and figurative painter born in Sydney, Australia.

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Charles La Trobe

Charles Joseph La Trobe (20 March 18014 December 1875), commonly Latrobe, was appointed in 1839 superintendent of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales and, after the establishment in 1851 of the colony of Victoria (now a state of Australia), he became its first lieutenant-governor.

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City quality of life indices

City quality of life indices are lists of cities that are ranked according to a defined measure of living conditions.

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Denis Napthine

Denis Vincent Napthine (born 6 March 1952) is a former Australian politician and veterinarian who served as the 47th premier of Victoria from 2013 to 2014.

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Division of Wannon

The Division of Wannon is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria.

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Eastern Maar

The Eastern Maar people are a group of Aboriginal Australian peoples whose traditional lands are in the south-western part of state of Victoria, Australia.

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Electoral district of South-West Coast

The electoral district of South-West Coast is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.

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Eumeralla Wars

The Eumeralla Wars were the violent encounters over the possession of land between British colonists and Gunditjmara Aboriginal people in what is now called the Western District area of south west Victoria.

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Fishing

Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.

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Framlingham, Victoria

Framlingham is a rural township located by the Hopkins River in the Western District of Victoria, Australia, about north-east of the coastal city of Warrnambool.

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Griffiths Island

Griffiths Island, sometimes incorrectly spelled as Griffith Island or Griffitts Island, lies at the mouth of the Moyne River next to, and within the bounds of, the town of Port Fairy, in the Western District of the state of Victoria in Australia. Port Fairy and Griffiths Island are western District (Victoria).

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Gunditjmara

The Gunditjmara or Gunditjamara, also known as Dhauwurd Wurrung, are an Aboriginal Australian people of southwestern Victoria. Port Fairy and Gunditjmara are western District (Victoria).

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The Hampden Football Netball League is an Australian rules football and netball league based in South-Western Victoria, with clubs located in towns along or near the Princes Highway from Camperdown to Portland.

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Iain Grandage

Iain Grandage is an Australian composer and music director, best known for his compositions for theatre, dance and concert.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Jock Serong

Jock Serong is an Australian writer.

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John Douglas Coleman (23 November 1928 – 5 April 1973) was an Australian rules footballer who played for and coached the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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John Griffiths (shipowner)

John Griffiths (1801-1881) was an Australian shipowner and builder.

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Launceston Courier

The Launceston Courier was a weekly newspaper published in Launceston, Tasmania, from 12 October 1840 to 20 March 1843.

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Links (golf)

A links is the oldest style of golf course, first developed in Scotland.

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Macfarlane Burnet

Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet (3 September 1899 – 31 August 1985), usually known as Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was an Australian virologist known for his contributions to immunology.

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Melbourne

Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.

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Michael Easton (composer)

Michael Easton (1954 – 6 February 2004) was a British composer, musician, and music critic.

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Moyne River

The Moyne River, a perennial river of the Glenelg Hopkins catchment, is located in the Western District of Victoria, Australia. Port Fairy and Moyne River are western District (Victoria).

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Musica Viva

Musica Viva, also known as Musica Viva Australia, is a national organisation in Australia dedicated to chamber music.

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Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name.

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National Trust of Australia

The National Trust of Australia, officially the Australian Council of National Trusts (ACNT), is the Australian national peak body for community-based, non-government non-profit organisations committed to promoting and conserving Australia's Indigenous, natural and historic heritage.

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Native title in Australia

Native title is the set of rights, recognised by Australian law, held by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups or individuals to land that derive from their maintenance of their traditional laws and customs.

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No Fixed Address (band)

No Fixed Address (NFA) are an Australian reggae rock group whose members are all Aboriginal Australians, mostly from South Australia.

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Port Fairy Folk Festival

The Port Fairy Folk Festival is an annual four-day music festival based in the historic fishing village of Port Fairy in Victoria, Australia.

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The Port Fairy Football Club, nicknamed the Seagulls, is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the coastal town of Port Fairy, Victoria.

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Port Fairy to Warrnambool Rail Trail

The Port Fairy - Warrnambool Rail Trail is a 37 kilometre rail trail in southwestern Victoria, Australia.

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Port Phillip District

The Port Phillip District was an administrative division of the Colony of New South Wales from 9 September 1836 until 1 July 1851, when it was separated from New South Wales and became the Colony of Victoria.

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Port Phillip District Special Surveys

In August 1840, the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners of the British Government decided to allow the purchase of land anywhere in the Port Phillip District of New South Wales (now in Victoria), Australia.

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Portland, Victoria

Portland is a city in Victoria, Australia, and is the oldest European settlement in the state. Port Fairy and Portland, Victoria are fishing communities in Australia, Whaling in Australia and Whaling stations in Australia.

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Premier of Queensland

The premier of Queensland is the head of government in the Australian state of Queensland.

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Premier of Victoria

The premier of Victoria is the head of government of the state of Victoria in Australia.

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Princes Highway

Princes Highway is a major road in Australia, extending from Sydney via Melbourne to Adelaide through the states of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.

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Reggae rock

Reggae rock is a subgenre of reggae fusion and rock music that primarily uses the genres reggae, rock, and ska.

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Seal hunting

Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals.

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Shire of Moyne

The Shire of Moyne is a local government area in the Barwon South West region of Victoria, Australia, located in the south-western part of the state.

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Short-tailed shearwater

The short-tailed shearwater or slender-billed shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris; formerly Puffinus tenuirostris), also called yolla or moonbird, and commonly known as the muttonbird in Australia, is the most abundant seabird species in Australian waters, and is one of the few Australian native birds in which the chicks are commercially harvested.

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Southern Ocean

The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the world ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica.

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Squatting (Australian history)

In the history of Australia, squatting was the act of extrajudicially occupying tracts of Crown land, typically to graze livestock.

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Sudanese Australians

Sudanese Australians (أستراليون سودانيون) are people of Sudanese origin or descent living in Australia.

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Sun Pharma

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (d/b/a Sun Pharma) is an Indian multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Mumbai, that manufactures and sells pharmaceutical formulations and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) in more than 100 countries across the globe.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Fairy

Also known as Belfast, Victoria, Moyneyana Festival, Port Fairy Spring Music Festival, Port Fairy, Victoria, Tarerer Festival.

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Port Fairy, the Glossary

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See also

Ports and harbours of Victoria (state)

Whaling in Australia

References