PORT FAIRY HISTORY

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Across
  1. 3. What was the original name of the town? (7)
  2. 5. What is the name of the river in Port Fairy? (5)
  3. 6. Who named the area Port Fairy? (7,7)
  4. 8. What was the nickname of the entrepreneur who sold and rented land in Port Fairy? (4,2,7)
  5. 9. Where was a sophisticated system of channels, weirs and dams and ancient stone dwellings discovered? (4,6)
  6. 11. Who first sold and rented the land in Port Fairy? (7,8)
  7. 12. What material was used to build the first shops in the town? (5)
  8. 18. What was the smaller animal that was hunted along the southwest coast? (5)
  9. 19. What is the name of the oldest dwelling in Victoria? (5,7)
  10. 20. What was the fine for assaulting an Aboriginal woman? (3,9)
  11. 22. What group of settlers occupied the land near Port Fairy with no legal claim to the property? (9)
  12. 25. What was the name of the ship that sank in Apollo Bay? (2,6)
  13. 26. What term described the British Government’s land policy in Australia? (5,7)
  14. 28. What is the name of the area where local Aboriginal people live today? (11)
  15. 29. What is the name of the extinct volcano near Macarthur? (4,3)
  16. 30. What is the name of the body of water that lies beyond Port Fairy Bay? (5,8,5)
Down
  1. 1. What was the name of the Governor of New South Wales who allowed the Irishman to buy 5,000 acres of land in Port Fairy? (3,6,5)
  2. 2. Who bought 5,000 acres of land and created the township in Port Fairy? (5,8)
  3. 4. The Star of The West Hotel was used by Cobb and Co for what purpose? (7,4)
  4. 7. What was the larger animal that was hunted along the southwest coast? (6)
  5. 10. Where did the pine trees lining the streets of Port Fairy originally come from? (7,6)
  6. 13. What did people use for heating, cooking and lighting? (4,5)
  7. 14. What is the name given to a system of channels, weirs and dams to harvest fish and eels? (11)
  8. 15. What was the word in the inscription that described what happened to the local Aboriginal people between 1837 and 1844? (9)
  9. 16. What was a person convicted of stealing when they were sent to jail for several years with hard labour? (5)
  10. 17. What is the name of the Aboriginal people who live in the region of Port Fairy? (11)
  11. 21. What was a person convicted of doing when they were fined two pounds? (8)
  12. 23. What did people rely on for a source of water in the early days of the town? (9)
  13. 24. Besides being killed by the early settlers what else brought widespread death to the Aboriginal people? (7)
  14. 27. What cultivated plant did Goble’s Mill House grind into flour? (5)