Port Victoria Maritime Museum

Port Victoria likes to call itself 'the last of the windjammer ports', and its maritime museum, set in the old harbourmaster's building beside the jetty, tells you why. Well into the 1940s, towering sailing ships still loaded bagged wheat here for the long race around Cape Horn to Europe, long after steam had taken over elsewhere.

The museum is packed with ship models, photographs, relics from wrecks and the stories of the grain races that pitted windjammer against windjammer. It is a small but evocative collection that captures a vanished age of sail.

The long jetty out front remains a fine fishing platform, and the offshore Wardang Island and its ring of wrecks add to the maritime atmosphere. It is a rewarding stop on the quieter western coast of the peninsula.