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Nbsp Welcome to Port Fairy.... LOCAL HISTORY OF THE TOWN The bay on which the town is situated was discovered in the late 1820s when a sealer, Captain James Wishart, sought shelter from a fierce southern storm. His relief in finding such a shelter prompted him to name the area Port Fairy, after his small cutter , The Fairy . Later sealers and whalers from Tasmania fished the southern coast of ...