Port Victoria

Port Victoria may refer to several places:

  • Victoria, Seychelles
  • Port Victoria, South Australia
  • Port Victoria, Kenya, a town in Busia District
  • Port Victoria, Kent, England
    • Port Victoria railway station, a former railway station in Kent, England
  • Port Victoria, New Zealand, a former name for Lyttelton, New Zealand

Famous quotes containing the words port and/or victoria:

    Through the port comes the moon-shine astray!
    It tips the guard’s cutlass and silvers this nook;
    But ‘twill die in the dawning of Billy’s last day.
    A jewel-block they’ll make of me to-morrow,
    Pendant pearl from the yard-arm-end
    Like the ear-drop I gave to Bristol Molly—
    O, ‘tis me, not the sentence they’ll suspend.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    Sometimes my wife complains that she’s overwhelmed with work and just can’t take one of the kids, for example, to a piano lesson. I’ll offer to do it for her, and then she’ll say, “No, I’ll do it.” We have to negotiate how much I trespass into that mother role—it’s not given up easily.
    —Anonymous Father. As quoted in Women and Their Fathers, by Victoria Secunda, ch. 3 (1992)