Hello.
Today I'm going to talk about the first English settlement in Victoria.
But first I'm going to talk about the Gunditjmara people that lived in Portland before the English arrived.

The Gunditjmara people who lived in Portland farmed eels and fish, they created dams and wetlands so they could farm the eels and fish in, they also created channels to link the dams and wetlands together, and they even built stone huts in which they lived.

From the late 1820's to the early 1830's, whaling and sealing was a very popular job 'coz it paid well, but one of the best places to whale and seal was around the south of  Victoria.
There was also a big demand of land for farming and Settling.

So, in 1800 Lieutenant James Grant went to Portland to see what he could see and then he named it, and then in the early 1830's, a few Settler's settled in Portland.
They also had the main whaling industry with them, and they both helped make the whale and seal stations.
Along with the whaling and sealing industry, there was a family called the Henty's who were one of the first families to have grazing land and they were also one of the first families to have sheep and cattle to farm.
The explorer Thomas Mitchell found the Henty settlement with about 200 people living there, even though Victoria wasn't  supposed to be settled.