An SBS TV documentary, Afghanistan: The Great Game, claims that it is actually named after his wife, Lady Florentia Sale Victoria, who wrote a famous journal of her experiences during the First Afghan War which became a best seller in the 1840s and was serialised in The Times and possibly in Australia.
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In late December 1874 a visitor to the township recorded a description of Sale Victoria “which has all the appearances of a flourishing township”.
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Sale Victoria observed that “the streets are wide and shops plentiful, but fruit is scarce, a few stale cherries being all I could obtain from the principal shop in the place”.
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HM Prison Sale Victoria was completed in 1887 and it operated for 110 years until it was replaced by a private Fulham Correctional Centre.
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Sale Victoria has seen much development and redevelopment in the past decade, one example being the multimillion-dollar redevelopment of the city's Port of Sale Victoria.
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Sale Victoria has a moderate oceanic climate made up of warm summers, mild autumns and springs and cool winters.
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Previously, Sale Victoria was significant as an office centre for the Esso corporation but these operations were relocated around 1990, leaving only a gas processing facility in nearby Longford.
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Sale Victoria Swing Bridge is the only one left in the world that can swing around 360° and featured in the Australian film noir movie "The Tender Hook".
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Sale Victoria attraction is Lake Guthridge, a low lying retention basin, which features a park for children, barbecues, and a walking trail around the lake and car parking facilities.
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The Sale Victoria Regatta is run yearly on a long straight section of the canal headed towards Longford.
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Visitors to Sale Victoria are usually unaware of the Canal, including its restoration, due to roadside views of it being blocked by the former Esso corporation headquarters, half of which is commercially let office space and the other half having been re-developed into a multimillion-dollar Library and Art Gallery.
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On 30 May 2009, Sale Victoria hosted Triple J's One Night Stand at the Sale Victoria Football Ground.
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Sale Victoria has a strong underground music scene; events are held every few months and attract scores of young people.
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City has two Australian rules football teams, Sale Victoria, competing in the Gippsland Football League and Sale Victoria City, who compete in the North Gippsland Football League.
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Sale Victoria United Football Club enters teams in the Gippsland Soccer League competitions.
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Sale Victoria United FC was formed as the Sale Victoria City Soccer Club in 1974.
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Sale Victoria United is the only recognised soccer club in the Shire, but this was always the case.
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Sale Victoria Greyhound Racing Club holds regular greyhound racing meetings at the Sale Victoria Showgrounds.
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Sale Victoria is home to a baseball club whose baseball diamonds are located at Stephenson Park.
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