Victoria city

The capital of British Columbia, Canada.

City of victoria, the capital of British Columbia, Canada, is located at the southern tip of Victoria Island in southwest Canada, with latitude 48 25' north and longitude123 22' west. It is the largest city on Victoria Island. The climate is mild and belongs to maritime climate. The climate in January is 4℃ ~ 5℃, and the frost period is only 20 days a year. The average annual rainfall is 27 inches, the rainy season is winter, and the rainfall from June to August is only 2 inches. This city is beautiful and quiet, known as the "Garden City" with a population of 320,000.

Victoria was named after Queen Victoria of England in the19th century. 1858, a gold mine was discovered in the French River, which became a paradise for adventurers and gold diggers. Victoria became a free port in 1859, and Victoria City was formed in 1862. 1868 became the capital of British Columbia. 187 1 joined Canada, which became the capital of the westernmost province in Canada. Victoria has light industry, building hardware industry, pottery industry, wood processing industry, yacht manufacturing industry, food industry, painting and art industry. Tourism is the biggest financial revenue industry in this city.

Victoria is Canada's closest port to Asia, and it is an ice-free port. There is a deep-water port in the urban area and a deep-water port in the suburbs: the deep-water port in the urban area is a commercial port, which is divided into two ports, internal and external, for domestic and overseas trade. Hey? Are you quiet? a target = _ blank href =/view/ 1955 . htm & gt。 Major naval bases along the Pacific coast. The headquarters of the Canadian Navy's Pacific Fleet is stationed here, and it also has an international airport.

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Victoria, the capital of Seychelles

Victoria, the capital of Seychelles, is located in the northeast corner of Mahe Island. Victoria is the capital of Seychelles with a population of 27,000. The streets of Victoria City are neat, elegant, small, quiet and beautiful.

Walking in the city, groups of ivory buildings are hidden among green trees and flowers. A bell tower built in 1903 stands in the center of the city. On Independence Street, the main street, there is a large sculpture composed of three black, yellow and white seagulls, which symbolizes the history that Creoles came to settle here from Europe, Asia and Africa more than 200 years ago. Now the descendants of Africans, Malagasy, Europeans, China, Malays and Indians on the island have already married, and Victoria City has formed a unique multi-ethnic city style.

Victoria Harbour is the only port in Seychelles, with a modern wharf and a deep water area of 2.5 square kilometers, which can berth all kinds of ships. Victoria is not only an important transit point for international shipping, but also an important fishing port and a distribution center for coconut, cinnamon, vanilla and pickled fish. 197 1 The completed international airport is an important aviation hub in the Indian Ocean.

Victoria Botanical Garden is the main tourist area in this city. Various exotic plants in Seychelles are concentrated in the park, including more than 80 species unique to the world, including tall hardwood, two kinds of pocket trees, white orchid, exotic bottle grass, extremely rare jellyfish and Seychelles national treasure sea coconut tree. Among them, the endangered anchovies have been designated as national flowers, and it is forbidden to take them out of the country in 197 1 year. There are also some rare animals in the Botanical Garden for visitors to watch, such as giant turtles shipped from Al Dabboura Island, Kameyama, and the orange-breasted flying fox unique to Seychelles. In the streets of Victoria, handicrafts carved from sea coconuts and shells can be seen everywhere, which have local characteristics.

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People with the same name:

Queen Victoria of England

Victoria Caroline Adams, the lead singer of the British women's group "Spice Girls".

Victoria Harbour

Victoria harbour, hong kong

Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong (referred to as Victoria Harbour for short) is a seaport between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon Peninsula. Hong Kong is known as one of the three natural seaports in the world because of its vast territory and deep population, and as the Pearl of the Orient and the three major night scenes in the world because of Victoria Harbour.

In the early years, Hong Kong was regarded by the British as having the potential to become an excellent port in East Asia. They did not hesitate to seize the land from the Manchu government through the Opium War to develop their maritime trade in the Far East, thus beginning the history of Hong Kong becoming a British colony. In fact, the construction and development of Victoria Harbour and both sides of Victoria Harbour have always influenced the history and culture of Hong Kong, and also dominated the development of Hong Kong's economy and tourism, which is one of the keys for Hong Kong to become an international metropolis.

According to the statistics in 2004, the area of Victoria Harbour is 465,438+0.88 square kilometers. It covers Lei Yue Mun in the east, Kap Shui Mun in the west and southern waters of Tsing Yi in the north. The harbour includes islands such as Green Island, little green island, Stonecutters Island and Kowloon Rock.

Sailing boats that used to frequent Victoria Harbour are one of the symbols of Hong Kong, and now they have become the symbol of the Hong Kong Tourism Board.

The origin of history and names

Name origin: Queen Victoria

184 1 year, according to the Sino-British treaty of nanking signed last year, Britain occupied Hong Kong Island. 186111After the Beijing Treaty was signed between the Qing government and Britain in April, the British army occupied Kowloon Peninsula. In April, the harbor between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon Peninsula was named Victoria Harbour after Queen Victoria, who was then in power in Britain. Similar names include Victoria Park, Victoria City (from today's Western District to Wan Chai) and Victoria Hill (now Taiping Hill).

Queen Victoria

Alexandrina Victoria, Queen of Victoria (born on1865438+May 24th, 2009-died on 190 1 year 65438+1October 22nd).

Feminine charm, brilliant generation.

The longest-serving monarch in British history has been in power for 63 years. Queen Victoria was the first British monarch to be called "Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland" and "Queen of India". Her 63-year reign (65438+June 20, 0837-190165438+1October 22) was the most powerful so-called "imperial empire" in Britain, and her rule lasted until her death and the beginning of the First World War (19

Queen Victoria, daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent. He ascended the throne on 1837 at the age of eighteen. At the beginning of her reign, she took an active part in politics, cooperated with the Prime Minister, Vicomte W Ram of Melbourne (1779 ~ 1848), and was inclined to the Whigs, which was incompatible with the Tories. After 1846, the Queen and her husband Prince Albert resolutely opposed the foreign policy of Foreign Secretary H.J. palmerston, forcing palmerston to resign. In the later period of his administration, he turned to the Conservative Party and became close friends with Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, actively supporting his colonial aggression policy.

Victoria became queen of India in 1876. 188 1 year, after the death of Prime Minister disraeli, he began to trust Salisbury and Chamberlain. 1887 and 1897, Britain held grand ceremonies to celebrate the 50th and 60th anniversaries of the Queen's accession to the throne, and took advantage of the Queen's popularity to consolidate the rule and internal unity of the British Empire when representatives from various imperial territories gathered in London for an imperial colonial conference. During the Victorian era, Britain changed from an ordinary European country to a powerful empire.