The Coast

Everything on the water. The Batavia's timbers and its stone portico, Dutch wreck sites off the Abrolhos and the Zuytdorp Cliffs, Broome's pearling luggers and hard-hat diving dress and the Japanese cemetery, cyclone-wrecked fleets, Fremantle's inner harbour, and the bulk carriers at Port Hedland and Dampier.

Part of Western Australia

133 moments in this segment.

1. 1616 - Drik hartog's plate, 1616 and vlaming's plate, 1697 - cyclopedia of western australia. Dirk Hartog made the first recorded European landing on the west coast on 25 October 1616, nailing a pewter plate to a post at Cape Inscription. Willem de Vlamingh found it half-buried on 4 February 1697 and took the original to Amsterdam, where it is held by the Rijksmuseum.
2. 1648 - Voyage of the Batavia, Francisco Pelsaert, 1648. Ongeluckige voyagie van het schip Batavia, uytgevaren onder't beleydt van den E. François Pelsaert, na Oost-Indien, en gebleven is op de Abrollos van Frederick Houtman... Pelsaert returned aboard the Sardam in, October 1629, tried the mutineers on the islands and executed Cornelisz, some of them having both hands struck off before hanging. It was taken by the mission that held them, and not by anyone in it.
3. 1828 - Setting Camp of the survey expedition at Clause's Lagoon. Western Australia 1828 by Frederick Clause. Western Australia 1828 Painting by Frederick Clause from a sketch by Frederick Garling drawn in 1827 during James Stirlings expedition to the river Swan in Western Australia. Stirling explored the river in 1827 aboard HMS Success and lobbied the Colonial Office on what he found.
4. 1901 - The Dutchess and the Manx Fairy on the Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River, 1901. Duchess paddle steamer ferry (prominent) and the Manx Fairy steam ferry (behind) on the Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River in 1901. Ferries worked its reaches into the twentieth century and a few still do.
5. 1901 - The Dutchess and the Manx Fairy on the Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River, 1901. Duchess paddle steamer ferry (prominent) and the Manx Fairy steam ferry (behind) on the Swan River in 1901. Derbarl Yerrigan, the Swan River, carried the colony's traffic before there were roads or rail.
6. 1905 - Landing fish in Fremantle. Fish being landed on the jetty at the fishing boat harbour. Landing fish on the jetty at the Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour.
7. 1910 - O&K locomotive N° 2271 of 1907, 610mm gauge, 0-4-0WT, 30hp, at Roebourne, ex Public Works Department of Victoria, Coode. OandK locomotive N° 2271 of 1907, 610mm gauge, 0-4-0WT, 30hp, at Roebourne, ex Public Works Department of Victoria, Coode Canal reclamation works, Port Melbourne ( 685B-5).
8. 1910 - paddle steamer ferry the Duchess on the Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River, c. 1910. paddle steamer ferry the Duchess on the Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River, in 1910. It runs through Whadjuk Noongar Country and the Wagyl is the being that made it.
9. 1912 - RMS Koombana. The Koombana was lost off Port Hedland in 1912 with more than 150 aboard, described as Australia's worst maritime disaster of the twentieth century.
10. 1912 - HMS Juno in Albany Harbour 1901. Major Edmund Lockyer established a post at King George Sound in 1826 and formally annexed western Australia for Britain on 21 January 1827, two years before the Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River Colony.
11. 1919-08 - Arrival of 'Königin Luise' in Fremantle, W.A. - 3, August 1919. Troopship SS Königin Luise arriving at Fremantle Harbour, Western Australia. O'Connor arrived in the colony in April 1891 as Engineer-in-Chief, having come to New Zealand at twenty-one and worked as an assistant engineer for Canterbury Province from 1866.
12. 1920 - The Fremantle Wharf Crisis of 1919, The Cortege Marshalling. A figure from The Fremantle Wharf Crisis of 1919, a pamphlet published in 1920 by the Australian Labor Federation. The first ocean-going steamer, the Sultan, berthed on 4 May 1897, and the works were completed in 1903.
13. 1920 - Lighter off Cossack, Gwen Hutchinson, rotated. A lighter, carrying sheep, leaving Cossack Harbour. Cossack was the Pilbara's first port and the base of the early pearling fleet before Broome took over. Its stone buildings stand empty on Ngarluma Country.
14. 1920 - The Fremantle Wharf Crisis of 1919, At The Graveside. A figure from The Fremantle Wharf Crisis of 1919, a pamphlet published in 1920 by the Australian Labor Federation. O'Connor arrived in the colony in April 1891 as Engineer-in-Chief, having come to New Zealand at twenty-one and worked as an assistant engineer for Canterbury Province from 1866.
15. 1920 - The Fremantle Wharf Crisis of 1919, Disputes Committee. A figure from The Fremantle Wharf Crisis of 1919, a pamphlet published in 1920 by the Australian Labor Federation. A Sunday Times article of 9 February 1902 by editor Thomas Walker accused him of 'gross blundering or something worse'. He shot himself at Robb Jetty on 10 March 1902.
16. 1924 - Kangaroo, Lady Forrest, and Ivanhoe c1924. The Stateships' ship 'Kangaroo', pilot boat 'Lady Forrest', and Ivanhoe, at Fremantle Harbour in about 1924. C.Y. O'Connor proposed putting the harbour inside the river mouth against expert opinion that called it impracticable, and removed the limestone bar and sand shoals to do it.
17. 1926 - North Fremantle Railway Bridge collapse, 1926. Taken from harbour north west side of bridge collapse showing the loss of bridge structure. Ferries worked its reaches into the twentieth century and a few still do.
18. 1927-09 - Paddle steamer ferry Duchess on her last journey across the Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River from South Perth, 10 September. Duchess on its last voyage as a ferry on the Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River on 10 September 1927. Occupation at Upper Swan is dated to about 40,000 years ago.
19. 1930 - Fremantle Harbour, Frank Hurley, nla.obj. Fremantle Harbour from the air, looking south-west. Taken by Frank Hurley from an aircraft, in the 1930 s. Before this harbour existed, ocean-going ships stood off Fremantle and lightered their cargo across the bar.
20. 1930 - SS ZEPHYR possibly on Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River, Western Australia. The ANMM undertakes research and accepts public comments that enhance the information we hold about images in our collection. This record has been updated accordingly. The photograph was made by the mission, not by the people pictured.
21. 1930 - Float, Carnarvon Jetty. A man with a fish on the One Mile Jetty, Carnarvon, Western Australia. Jetties were the only cargo link for coastal towns before roads reached them.
22. 1930 - Float, Carnarvon Jetty. The jetty reaching out over shallow water to deeper anchorage. A man with a fish on the One Mile Jetty, Carnarvon, Western Australia.
23. 1930 - Float, Carnarvon Jetty. The jetty reaching out over shallow water to deeper anchorage. A man with a fish on the One Mile Jetty, Carnarvon, Western Australia.
24. 1935 - Minderoo grounded 1. The SS Minderoo grounded at Port Hedland in 1935. The Pilbara ports move the ore that the Hamersley mines dig.
25. 1935 - Minderoo grounded 1. The SS Minderoo grounded at Port Hedland in 1935. Port Hedland is widely described as the largest bulk export port in the world by tonnage, a claim that needs a date and a source before it is repeated.
26. 1935 - Unloading Wadjemup / Rottnest salt from the old Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River ferry steamer Duchess, now converted into. Duchess barge, a former ferry, being unloaded of salt at Fremantle, having arrived from Wadjemup / Rottnest in 1935. C.Y. O'Connor proposed putting the harbour inside the river mouth against expert opinion that called it impracticable, and removed the limestone bar and sand shoals to do it.
27. 1935 - Unloading Wadjemup / Rottnest salt from the old Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River ferry steamer Duchess, now convert. Duchess barge, a former ferry, being unloaded of salt at Fremantle, having arrived from Wadjemup / Rottnest in 1935. The first ocean-going steamer, the Sultan, berthed on 4 May 1897, and the works were completed in 1903.
28. 1936 - 14. Pearling Luggers in the Creek, Broome. Broome ran 300 to 403 luggers at its peak, and its population went from 121 in 1891 to over 1,000 by 1900. The 1935 Lacepede Islands cyclone sank 21 luggers and killed 141; the 1887 Eighty Mile Beach cyclone killed 140.
29. 1940 - Submarine sunk by HMAS STUART. Able Seaman Arthur Thomas Wood was born 21 April 1921 at Berry in New South Wales, and joined the Royal Australian Navy in 1938 at the age of 17. After training at HMAS CEREBUS he joined HMAS SYDNEY in early 1939. HMAS Sydney was sunk after action with the German raider Kormoran off Carnarvon in 1941 with all 645 crew lost.
30. 1942 - Fremantle Harbour, WW2. A rare aerial photo of w:Fremantle Harbour during WW2 shows nearly 40 ships and submarines around bt sides of the harbour. The floating US Navy dry dock ARD.10 is also pictured mid-stream to the right, near the railway bridge.
31. 1945 - USS Clytie (AS-26) leaving Fremantle, Australia, in, September 1945. The US. Navy submarine tender USS Clytie (AS-26) passing through the submarine boom defense netting at Fremantle, Australia, in, September 1945.
32. 1966 - Pearling Industry In Australia (1966). British Pathe newsreel on the Australian pearling industry, filmed in 1966. By this date the trade was collapsing as plastics replaced pearl shell for buttons, and cultured pearls were taking over from natural shell.
33. 1971 - Cheynes Whaling Station Albany W.A circa 1971. The Cheynes Beach whaling station at Albany, filmed around 1971 while it was still operating. It was the last operating whaling station in Australia and closed in 1978.
34. 2009-09-01 - 'IDA LLOYD' Broome Pearl Lugger B68. The Broome pearl lugger Ida Lloyd, registered B68. Luggers of this type worked the shell beds off the Kimberley coast, and cyclones took them in numbers: the 1935 Lacepede Islands cyclone sank 21 luggers and killed 141, and the 1887 Eighty Mile Beach cyclone killed 140.
35. 2010-08-12 - The Pearlers. Film Australia's documentary on the pearlers, held by the National Film and Sound Archive. Hard-hat diving became standard in the 1880s and 1890s, shifting the labour from Aboriginal skin divers to indentured Asian workers; by 1901 Japanese divers made up 943 of 998 workers.
36. 2010-09-09 - National Heritage Listing: Part IV, Fitzroy River. The Kimberley Land Council on National Heritage listing for Martuwarra / Fitzroy River. The river runs from the Kimberley ranges to the coast at King Sound and is central to the Country of several peoples along its length. Listing was pursued by the traditional owners themselves.
37. 2012-02-13 - Opening the Common Gate - Living in Broome. Opening the Common Gate, on living in Broome, published on indigiTUBE. Broome's population grew from 121 in 1891 to over 1,000 by 1900 on the back of the pearling industry. The town's Aboriginal and Asian populations both formed around work the White Australia Policy formally excluded.
38. 2012 - Port Albany from end of breakwater. The coastal ports handle grain, ore, livestock and rock lobster along a shore with very few natural harbours. Grain from the wheatbelt leaves through Geraldton, Kwinana, Albany and Esperance.
39. 2012-10-13 - Pearl Luggers. NITV on the pearl luggers of Broome. Aboriginal people collected and traded pearl shell for at least 500 years before British colonisation; the colonial industry that followed relied on blackbirding of Aboriginal people, including women and children used as skin divers.
40. 2013 - Victoria Quay. The first ocean-going steamer, the Sultan, berthed on 4 May 1897, and the works were completed in 1903. He was made CMG for the harbour, and a government inquiry later cleared him of the corruption accusations made against him in the press.
41. 2013 - Fremantle fishing boat harbour 1. Fishing boats in Fremantle Fishing boat Harbour, Kailis fish and chips in the background. The southwest's small mammals have been reduced by foxes and cats to fenced reserves and offshore islands.
42. 2014-04-11 - Destination WA - Japanese Cemetary. The Japanese cemetery at Broome. Japanese divers dominated the industry, making up 943 of 998 workers by 1901, and many are buried in the town they were not otherwise permitted to settle in.
43. 2014 - Shipwreck Galleries, Fremantle, WA. Stern section of the Batavia hull and gateway replica. Jeronimus Cornelisz organised the killing of approximately 110 to 125 survivors over several weeks, including women and children.
44. 2014 - Wiebbe Hayes Fort, West Wallabi Island, WA. Oldest European built structure in Australia. Wiebbe Hayes and a party of soldiers sent to West Wallabi Island ostensibly to look for water found it, built stone fortifications and held out against Cornelisz's men.
45. 2014-07-31 - Vincent Angus - Oral History. An oral history recording with Vincent Angus, published on indigiTUBE. First-person recordings are the counterweight to a maritime record written almost entirely by shipping companies and colonial administrators. indigiTUBE is run by First Nations Media Australia.
46. 2014-11-24 - Kimberley Ranger Network - 2014 Literacy and Numeracy Smackdown. The Kimberley Ranger Network, published by the Kimberley Land Council. Ranger groups across the Kimberley manage land and sea Country under their own traditional owner organisations. The network links groups working from the desert edge to the coast.
47. 2014-11-24 - The hand back of Roebuck Plains Station to the Yawuru making news on BBC TV. The hand back of Roebuck Plains Station to the Yawuru people, reported internationally. The Yawuru are the traditional owners of the Broome area and its sea Country. Return of pastoral leases to traditional owners is one of the few mechanisms by which Country changes hands.
48. 2015-03-23 - Wreck of the Zuytdorp. The Western Australian Museum on the wreck of the Zuytdorp, a VOC ship lost on the cliffs north of Kalbarri in 1712. The site sits at the base of a cliff line with no safe approach, and the fate of any survivors is unknown.
49. 2015-04-30 - HMAS Sydney (II) survey expedition 1 May 2015. The Western Australian Museum's survey expedition to HMAS Sydney, May 2015. The cruiser was sunk after her action with the German raider Kormoran off Carnarvon in 1941, with the loss of all 645 crew.
50. 2015 - Endurance, Fremantle, 2015 (12). American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier PCTC vessel Endurance entering the inner harbour of the Port of Fremantle, Western Australia, with a Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics liner service.
51. 2015 - Cantonment hill. Looking towards Fremantle Harbour and the mouth of the Swan river. Barracks of the Fremantle Army museum being restored in the foreground.
52. 2015-06-23 - Ancient ‘Brremangurey Pearl’ and the history of WA’s pearling industry. NITV on the Brremangurey pearl and the history of Western Australia's pearling industry. Aboriginal people collected and traded pearl shell for at least 500 years before British colonisation, moving it across the continent through trade networks. The industry did not begin with Europeans; it was appropriated.
53. 2015-08-26 - Have your say on Yawuru /Roebuck Bay. Parks and Wildlife Service Western Australia invites public comment on the plan for Yawuru Nagulagun / Roebuck Bay. Yawuru people negotiated joint management of their sea Country rather than being consulted about someone else's plan. Broome sits on Yawuru Country.
54. 2015-09-17 - America's Cup 1987 The Best of. Coverage of the 1987 America's Cup, sailed off Fremantle. It was the only America's Cup contested in Australian waters, held because Australia II had won the Cup on 26 September 1983, beating Dennis Conner's Liberty 4-3 and ending the New York Yacht Club's 132-year tenure and 26 successful defences.
55. 2016-04-22 - Australian Pearling History. A pearling company's account of the Australian industry's history. Pearling was the only industry exempt from the White Australia Policy, which is why Japanese, Malay, Filipino, Koepanger and Chinese workers stayed in Broome when they were excluded everywhere else.
56. 2016-05-23 - Rio Tinto 8164 7083 8197 iron ore- Dampier ponds. Rio Tinto iron ore locomotives at the Dampier ponds. The heavy-haul railway runs from the Hamersley Range mines to the coast at Dampier on Murujuga / Burrup Peninsula.
57. 2016 - Port of Broome Jetty, Western Australia. This long, high jetty is necessary to allow for huge tides experienced on this coastline. The long jetties of this coast reach out across shallow water and enormous tidal ranges to meet ships that could not come closer.
58. 2016 - Tirranna, Fremantle, 2016 (05). Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics car carrier MV Tirranna entering the inner harbour of the Port of Fremantle, Western Australia, with a liner service from Europe - previous stop: Durban, South Africa; next stop: Melbourne, Australia.
59. 2016 - Tamerlane, Fremantle, 2016 (18). Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics car carrier MV Tamerlane entering the inner harbour of the Port of Fremantle, Western Australia, with a liner service from Melbourne. Next stop: Singapore.
60. 2016-09-06 - Discovery puts people on the Dampier Archipelago before the last Ice Age. University of Western Australia research places people on the Dampier Archipelago before the last ice age. The archipelago includes Murujuga / Burrup Peninsula, whose engravings sit on the same Country. Lower sea levels made the present islands part of the mainland.
61. 2017 - Western Australia Shipwrecks Museum - Joy of Museums - Batavia Timbers. Western Australian Shipwrecks Museum - see www.joyofmuseums.com. The Batavia struck Morning Reef near Beacon Island on 4 June 1629 with about 320 to 330 people aboard. Around 40 drowned in the wreck and roughly 300 reached the islands.
62. 2017 - D654 Fremantle. He was made CMG for the harbour, and a government inquiry later cleared him of the corruption accusations made against him in the press.
63. 2017 - Western Australia Maritime Museum - Joy of Museums - External 2. The Western Australia Shipwrecks Museum in Fremantle holds the reconstructed Batavia hull timbers and the sandstone portico the ship carried as ballast.
64. 2017-11-12 - A mutiny, psychopath and mass murder – investigating 388-year-old cold case | 60 Minutes Australia. 60 Minutes Australia investigating the Batavia killings as a cold case. Under-merchant Jeronimus Cornelisz organised the systematic killings on the islands while commander Francisco Pelsaert was away seeking help.
65. 2017-11-22 - Batavia's mysteries unfold with discovery of mass grave. The University of Western Australia on a mass grave found in the Houtman Abrolhos. The VOC ship Batavia struck Morning Reef near Beacon Island on 4 June 1629 with about 320 to 330 aboard; approximately 110 to 125 people were murdered afterwards.
66. 2018 - California Highway, Fremantle, 2018 (09). K Line car carrier California Highway departing from the inner harbour of the Port of Fremantle, Western Australia, on a liner voyage to Singapore.
67. 2018 - PPS Ambition, Albany, 2018 (04). Geared bulk carrier PPS Ambition anchored in King George Sound awaiting entry to the Port of Albany, Western Australia. The tidal range here is large enough that loaded carriers sail on a tide window rather than at will.
68. 2018 - Boats, Oyster Harbour, 2018 (03). Sailing and fishing boats tied up at the jetty complex in Oyster Harbour near Emu Point, Western Australia. The coastal ports handle grain, ore, livestock and rock lobster along a shore with very few natural harbours.
69. 2018-06-18 - Special Report on precious land - Karajarri, Port Smith and the ILC. A report on the return of Port Smith to the Karajarri people, published by the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation. Karajarri Country runs along the coast south of Broome toward Eighty Mile Beach. The return covers both land and the coast in front of it.
70. 2018-09-06 - ONE DAY WAR. A Dutch documentary on the single day of the Broome air raid, 3 March 1942. An Allied War Memorial was dedicated at Broome in 2000.
71. 2019-05-26 - Aarli
72. 2019 - A closer view of the Fremantle Fishing Boats. Crayfish boats work a season set by moult and migration rather than by weather. The small boat harbours of this coast serve rock lobster and finfish fleets in some of the most exposed water in the country.
73. 2019 - The Mermaid Vantage and Mermaid Searcher. Two large fishing trawlers in Fremantle, Western Australia. The Mermaid Vantage and Mermaid Searcher. A Sunday Times article of 9 February 1902 by editor Thomas Walker accused him of 'gross blundering or something worse'. He shot himself at Robb Jetty on 10 March 1902.
74. 2019 - Cloudy day in Perth, WA, 2019 Oct 30 (IMGP7623). Cloudy day in Perth, Western Australia. A view on city center and Swan River from Kings Park and Botanic Garden. Derbarl Yerrigan, the Swan River, carried the colony's traffic before there were roads or rail.
75. 2019 - Hai Ji, Albany, 2019 (02). Geared bulk carrier Hai Ji berthed at the Port of Albany, Western Australia. The tidal range here is large enough that loaded carriers sail on a tide window rather than at will.
76. 2019 - Alpha Gallant, Esperance, 2019 (08). Gearless bulk carrier Alpha Gallant berthed at Esperance Ports, Western Australia. Port Hedland is widely described as the largest bulk export port in the world by tonnage, a claim that needs a date and a source before it is repeated.
77. 2019 - Kwillina, Esperance, 2019 (04). Kwillina, the pilot boat at Esperance Ports, Western Australia. The coastal ports handle grain, ore, livestock and rock lobster along a shore with very few natural harbours.
78. 2019 - Uni Blossom, Esperance, 2019 (02). Geared bulk carrier Uni Blossom anchored at Esperance Ports, Western Australia, with the general cargo ship Kohinoor in the background at left.
79. 2019 - North Quay, North Fremantle, 2019 (01). The general cargo ship in the foreground is the AAL Nanjing; behind her is the livestock carrier Gudali Express, and in the background is the geared bulk carrier Taiyuan.
80. 2019 - Höegh Jeddah, Fremantle, 2019 (12). Leif Höegh and Co car carrier Höegh Jeddah departing from the inner harbour of the Port of Fremantle, Western Australia, on a liner voyage to Melbourne.
81. 2019 - Karoo, Albany, 2019 (01). Tugboat Karoo assisting a berthing cruise ship at the Port of Albany, Princess Royal Harbour, Western Australia. Long jetties reach out across shallow water and large tides to meet ships that cannot come closer.
82. 2019-07-07 - Roebuck Plains Station featured on ABC Landline. ABC Landline reports on Roebuck Plains Station under Yawuru ownership, published by the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation. The station runs cattle on Yawuru Country near Broome. Aboriginal-owned pastoral operations reverse the labour relationship that ran the industry for a century.
83. 2019-09-20 - Exploration of the 1712 Zuytdorp Shipwreck Site - Part 2. Part two of an expedition to the 1712 Zuytdorp wreck site. Access is overland across pastoral leases, then down to a surf-battered cliff base with no landing.
84. 2020-05-15 - Shipwreacks Museum - Fremantle Western Australia. The Western Australian Shipwrecks Museum at Fremantle. The recovered Batavia hull timbers and the stone portico the ship was carrying as cargo are displayed there.
85. 2020-06-03 - Malgana Native Title Determination. The Malgana native title determination, published by the Yamatji Marlpa Aboriginal Corporation. Malgana Country covers Shark Bay, where the Hamelin Pool stromatolites sit. The determination recognises rights over both land and sea Country.
86. 2020 - Quokka 1, Fremantle, 2020 (08). Quokka 1 entering the inner harbour of the Port of Fremantle on a ferry service from Wadjemup / Rottnest Island. A Sunday Times article of 9 February 1902 by editor Thomas Walker accused him of 'gross blundering or something worse'. He shot himself at Robb Jetty on 10 March 1902.
87. 2020 - Voyager, Fremantle, 2020 (02). Voyager laying over at the Rottness Express Northport terminal in Rous Head Harbour, Port of Fremantle, between operating ferry services to Wadjemup / Rottnest Island.
88. 2020 - Belo Star, Fremantle, 2020 (04). Prawn trawler Belo Star heading towards the entrance to Rous Head Harbour, in the Port of Fremantle, Western Australia. C.Y. O'Connor proposed putting the harbour inside the river mouth against expert opinion that called it impracticable, and removed the limestone bar and sand shoals to do it.
89. 2020 - Kariyushi Leader, MSC Meline, Fremantle, 2020 (01). (L-R) NYK Line car carrier Kariyushi Leader approaching Victoria Quay, in the inner harbour of the Port of Fremantle, Western Australia, and Mediterranean Shipping Company container ship MSC Meline berthed at North Quay, in the inner harbour of the Port of Fre.
90. 2020 - Deep History of Sea Country: Investigating the seabed in Western Australia. The Flinders University Maritime Archaeology Program investigates the seabed off Western Australia for evidence of occupation. Sites now under water were dry land when sea levels were lower and were submerged as the sea rose after the last glacial maximum. The occupied landscape extends well beyond the present shoreline.
91. 2020-07-05 - Yawuru Nagulagun / Roebuck Bay Marine Park. Parks and Wildlife Service Western Australia introduces the Yawuru Nagulagun / Roebuck Bay Marine Park at Broome. The park is jointly managed with the Yawuru people, whose name for the bay comes first in the park's own title. Roebuck Bay also holds the wrecks of flying boats strafed on 3 March 1942.
92. 2020-07-26 - Yawuru Nagulagun / Roebuck Bay Marine Park- flatback turtle foraging study. A flatback turtle foraging study in Yawuru Nagulagun / Roebuck Bay Marine Park. The research runs under the park's joint management arrangement with the Yawuru people. Flatback turtles nest along the Western Australian coast and are found only in Australian waters.
93. 2020-11-20 - The Batavia: Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Madness | 1 | VOC history. A detailed account of the Batavia in the context of Dutch East India Company history. About 40 drowned in the wreck of 4 June 1629 and roughly 300 reached shore; only 122 of the original complement eventually reached Batavia.
94. 2020-12-26 - WA marine park draft plan to protect traditional methods and cultural practices | ABC News. ABC News reports a Western Australian marine park draft plan intended to protect traditional practices and cultural priorities. Marine park planning in the state's north now runs through joint management with traditional owners. The Yawuru Nagulagun / Roebuck Bay park is the clearest example.
95. 2021-05-19 - Dampier Port Western Australia | Ship Iron Ore | Life at Sea. Loading iron ore at the Port of Dampier, on Murujuga / Burrup Peninsula. Rio Tinto ships from Dampier what it rails down from Tom Price and the other Hamersley mines.
96. 2021 - Esperance (ship, 2011) IMO 9491484, Amazonehaven, Port of Rotterdam pic1. Ed in the Port of Rotterdam. Grain from the wheatbelt leaves through Geraldton, Kwinana, Albany and Esperance.
97. 2021 - Wadjemup 100121. Bahijah livestock ship, owned by Bassem Daddah docked in North Fremantle. C.Y. O'Connor proposed putting the harbour inside the river mouth against expert opinion that called it impracticable, and removed the limestone bar and sand shoals to do it.
98. 2021 - Phoebe, Fremantle, 2021 (05). Container ship Phoebe entering the inner harbour of the Port of Fremantle, Western Australia, at the end of a liner voyage from Port Adelaide. O'Connor arrived in the colony in, April 1891 as Engineer-in-Chief, having come to New Zealand at twenty-one and worked as an assistant engineer for Canterbury Province from 1866.
99. 2021 - True North, Fremantle, 2021 (06). Cruise ship True North entering Success Boat Harbour (also known as Fishing Boat Harbour) in the Port of Fremantle, Western Australia, at the end of an afternoon cruise. Wheat, wool and later iron ore all left the state through works begun in 1892.
100. 2021 - Sao Pedro M, Fremantle, 2021 (01). The fishing vessel Sao Pedro M is waiting just inside the entrance of Rous Head Harbour, in the Port of Fremantle, Western Australia, for an arriving ship to pass by. The vessel was built by Legend Boat Builders in Naval Base, Western Australia.
101. 2021 - Jetty bar on the Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River. Newly-opened bar on East Street Jetty in Fremantle, Western Australia. It runs through Whadjuk Noongar Country and the Wagyl is the being that made it.
102. 2021 - Victoria Quay wharf being rebuilt. Steel beams being installed in the wharf next to 'B' Shed, at Victoria Quay in Fremantle, Western Australia. Wheat, wool and later iron ore all left the state through works begun in 1892.
103. 2021-09-02 - Broome's Pearling History. An account of Broome's pearling history. Francis Thomas Gregory reported the shell deposits in 1862, and Broome's population went from 121 in 1891 to over 1,000 by 1900, with 300 to 403 luggers at peak.
104. 2022-05-14 - Broome Aviation Archaeology: An Appraisal of Results and Directions for Future Research. The Australian Archaeological Association on aviation archaeology at Broome. The intertidal wrecks in Roebuck Bay are among the few Second World War aircraft sites in Australia that can be surveyed on foot at low tide.
105. 2022 - Scaffolding on Victoria Quay. Scaffolding on the edge of the wharf at Victoria Quay, giving access to below the deck. Before this harbour existed, ocean-going ships stood off Fremantle and lightered their cargo across the bar.
106. 2022 - Marine steam engine exhibition sign. Archaeological excavation of the wreck began in 1972 and recovered about 20 tonnes of hull timber. The WA Shipwrecks Museum in Fremantle holds the reconstructed Batavia hull timbers and the sandstone portico the ship carried as ballast.
107. 2022-11-14 - Discovery raises hope of solving mystery of shipwrecked Gilt Dragon | 7.30. ABC 7.30 on new evidence relating to the Vergulde Draeck, the Gilt Dragon, a VOC ship lost off the Western Australian coast in 1656. Survivors were left ashore and never accounted for.
108. 2023-02-07 - Kimberley Women in Fire 🔥. 's traditional owners.
109. 2023 - Sungkiang, Fremantle, 2023 (01). Geared bulk carrier Sungkiang moored at North Quay, in the inner harbour of Fremantle Harbour, Western Australia. The port he argued for handled the colony's trade through the gold boom that arrived a year after he did.
110. 2023 - Happy Diamond, Fremantle, 2023 (01). Heavy-lift ship Happy Diamond berthed at North Quay in the inner harbour of the Port of Fremantle, Western Australia. The port he argued for handled the colony's trade through the gold boom that arrived a year after he did.
111. 2023 - Dampier Salt evaporation flats, Port Hedland, 2023. Dampier, Port Hedland and Port Walcott exist for one commodity and were built around it. The Pilbara ports move the ore that the Hamersley mines dig.
112. 2023 - African Pipit, Fremantle, 2023 (02). Geared bulk carrier African Pipit berthed at North Quay, in the inner harbour of Fremantle Harbour, Western Australia, with the Fremantle railway bridge in the foreground.
113. 2023-06-25 - Sea Country Indigenous Protected Area Event. A Sea Country Indigenous Protected Area event, published by Country Needs People. Indigenous Protected Areas are declared by traditional owners over their own Country and managed by their own ranger groups. The model now covers a substantial share of Australia's protected estate.
114. 2024-03-10 - The Most Disturbing Mutiny and Shipwreck in History. A narrative account of the Batavia wreck and its aftermath. Wiebbe Hayes led soldiers on West Wallabi Island who resisted Cornelisz's party and built stone fortifications; Pelsaert returned aboard the Sardam in October 1629 and trials and executions followed.
115. 2024-05-20 - Return to 1616: Former island pastoral operation being returned to its natural state | ABC Australia. ABC on Dirk Hartog Island being returned from pastoral use to its natural state. Dirk Hartog landed at Cape Inscription on 25 October 1616 from the ship Eendracht, leaving a pewter plate; this was the first recorded European landing on the west coast, not the first in Australia, which was Willem Janszoon at Cape York in 1606.
116. 2024 - Albany Silo Art. A mural on the Albany grain terminal, painted by Yok and Sheryl, commissioned by FORM WA, for the Public Silo Trail. The stylised image is of a Ruby Sea dragon. Work was completed in, March 2018. Long jetties reach out across shallow water and large tides to meet ships that cannot come closer. It was taken by the mission that held them, and not by anyone in it.
117. 2024-06-23 - Welcome to Yawuru Nagulagun / Roebuck Bay Marine Park. A welcome to Yawuru Nagulagun / Roebuck Bay Marine Park. Joint management means the Yawuru people direct how the sea Country is used and monitored. The naming order in the park's title reflects that arrangement.
118. 2024-10-11 - Pearling Master, Broome, Part 1 - Herbert Kennedy - early 1900s. Oral history with Herbert Kennedy, a Broome pearling master recalling the early 1900s, from the Wendy Lowenstein collection. Regulations in 1871 to 1873 banned Aboriginal women divers, which is itself the evidence they had been used; skeletal remains from the period show head wounds and malnutrition.
119. 2024-11-11 - It will cost at least $7 billion to move WA’s port from Fremantle to Kwinana by 2040 | ABC News. ABC News on the cost of moving Western Australia's container port from Fremantle to Kwinana by 2040, estimated at at least seven billion dollars as reported in November 2024. Fremantle's inner harbour is at the mouth of the Derbarl Yerrigan / Swan River and cannot be expanded.
120. 2025 - Port of Broome Jetty, September 2025. The jetty reaching out over shallow water to deeper anchorage. Port of Broome Jetty in Broome, Western Australia.
121. 2025 - Challenger Cray Trail. An artwork on the 'Challenger Cray Trail' in Fremantle, Western Australia. Crayfish boats work a season set by moult and migration rather than by weather.
122. 2025 - Mofetta Quays ladder. A wharf ladder on Molfetta Quays in Fremantle, Western Australia. The small boat harbours of this coast serve rock lobster and finfish fleets in some of the most exposed water in the country.
123. 2025 - Molfetta Quays, Fremantle 1. The refueling berths of Molfetta Quays in Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour. The western rock lobster fishery has been one of Australia's most valuable single-species fisheries.
124. 2025 - Taesei Maru fishing boat 2025. The Taesei Maru fishing boat in Fishing Boat Harbour, Fremantle, Western Australia. There are very few natural harbours on this coast, so most of them were built.
125. 2025-10-06 - Broome WA Pearls, War & Wonders. Broome's pearling and wartime history in one visit. The town holds both the pearling record and the wreckage of the 3 March 1942 air raid on Roebuck Bay.
126. 2026-03-30 - The Lucky and the Dead - A tale of old Broome. Western Australia Now and Then on old Broome, The Lucky and the Dead. The town's cemeteries and its living memory are shaped by the pearling industry's death toll from diving accidents and cyclones.
127. 2026-05-02 - Revealing Roebuck Bay: The War Graves Beneath the Tide. The war graves beneath the tide at Roebuck Bay, Broome. On 3 March 1942 Lieutenant Zenjiro Miyano led nine Mitsubishi A6M2 Zeros and one reconnaissance aircraft from Kupang against Roebuck Bay and Broome airfield; no bombs were dropped, it was a strafing attack, so the popular name the bombing of Broome is technically wrong.
128. 2026 - Great Crested Tern on Busselton Jetty, August 2026. Busselton's jetty is among the longest timber jetties in the southern hemisphere. The long jetties of this coast reach out across shallow water and enormous tidal ranges to meet ships that could not come closer.
129. 2026 - Boat fire at Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour, August 2026. The small boat harbours of this coast serve rock lobster and finfish fleets in some of the most exposed water in the country. There are very few natural harbours on this coast, so most of them were built.
130. 2026 - Marine Rescue R100 in Fremantle, August 2026. Marine Rescue R100 at the entrance to Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour. The western rock lobster fishery has been one of Australia's most valuable single-species fisheries.
131. 2026 - Western Australia Police vessel TW152 in Fremantle, August 2026. Western Australia Police patrol vessell TW152 at the entrance to Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour. There are very few natural harbours on this coast, so most of them were built. The camera here belonged to the police who made the arrest.
132. 2026 - Swandocks crane being rebuilt. One of the luffing cranes being reconstructed at the maritime museum in Fremantle, Western Australia. Lobster fisherman David Johnson first sighted the wreck in 1963.
133. 2026 - The Batavia Shipwreck (1629): The Dutch East Indiaman wreck and the ordeal on the Abrolhos. A long-form account of the 1629 Batavia wreck and the ordeal on the Houtman Abrolhos. The ship was outbound for the Dutch East Indies on the Brouwer Route, which ran east along the roaring forties before turning north, and overshot the turn.