Champion Bay, Western Australia
Champion Bay was named by Lieutenant John Lort Stokes of HMS Beagle, who surveyed the area in April 1840. He named it after the colonial schooner Champion, in which George Fletcher Moore had travelled to the region and first located the bay in January of that year.
The locality at the bay was also called Champion Bay. The townsite of Geraldton was surveyed in 1850, named after Captain Charles Fitzgerald, 4th Governor of Western Australia.
The area around Champion Bay was traditionally inhabited by an Aboriginal people who spoke the Nhanhagardi language.
In 1877 a lighthouse was with a diptric lens was built at Bluff Point in Champion Bay. The upper square portion was 7.5 metres high while the lower octagonal base was 11.3 metres high.
References
- ^ Gazetteer of Australia Archived October 9, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Stokes, John Lort (1846). "Chapter 5: Victoria River to Swan River". Discoveries in Australia, with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of the Beagle, 1837–1843, Volume 2. London: T and W. Boone. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
- ^ "Expedition to the Northwest". The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal. 8 February 1840. p. 23. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
- ^ Kimberly, Warren Bert (1897). "13. Land Laws; Exploration; Australiand Settlement 1839-1842". History of West Australia. Melbourne: F. W. Niven & Co. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
- ^ Gregory, A.C. (15 March 1850). "Assist.-Surv.-Gregory's Report". The Perth Gazette and Independent Journal of Politics and News. p. 2. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
- ^ "A93: Nhanhagardi". Austlang. AIATSIS. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ^ Lighthouses of the World, AG Findlay, 1879,
28°45′S 114°36′E / 28.750°S 114.600°E
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