Dampier Archipelago – Wikipedia

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The Dampier Archipelago It is a group of islands located off the coast of Western Australia, in the waters of the Indian Ocean. Belongs to the Local government area of the city of Karratha, in the Pilbara region. The archipelago is located near the city of Karratha and includes the large industrial port of Dampier on the Murujuga island (or Peninsula Burrup).

The archipelago consists of 42 between islands, islets and rocks. [first]

The Barrup peninsula (Murujuga), which measures 27 km in length for 5 km in width, was previously the largest of the islands: it was separated from the mainland by muddy sea expanses and was called Dampier Island. It is now connected by road and railway infrastructures that combine Karratha and the port of Dampier. [first]

The major islands of the group are Enderby and Dolphin. The greatest height is that of Dolphin Island, 120 m [2] . The northernmost point of the archipelago is Cape Legendre on the island of Legendre. The most eastern island is Dalambre, the small island Egret (west of Eaglehawk) is the westernmost and West the southernmost.

Main islands [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

William Dampier

In 1699 the English navigator and pulsator William Dampier, under the command of the warship with 26 HMS cannons Roebuck On a mission to explore the coast of the new Netherlands, following the Dutch route for the Indies, he passed between Dirk Hartog Island and the mainland of Western Australia in the Shark Bay. Then followed the coast to the north-east reaching, on August 21, 1699, the Archipelago Dampier, which explored, appointing Rosemary Island on August 22nd. He continued to Lagrange Bay before sailing for Timor. [5] The name Rosemary chose him for the presence on the island of the Olearia axillary who reminded him of rosemary ( rosemary in English). [6] However, it is now
agreed that the island originally named by Dampier was Malus Island and not the one that bears the name Rosemary today. [6]

The archipelago contains many aboriginal ceremonial sites, a high concentration of rock engravings [7] and archaeological sites referring to the traditions of the ngarda-gardi peoples. Archaeological studies show that human occupation in the archipelago, including the Burrup peninsula, began at least 8,000 ago. Dampier did not meet the Aborigines during his journey. Meetings instead took place between them and Captain Phillip Parker King, in 1818. [first]

At the time of the European settlement of the Roebourne district in the 1960s, the traditional inhabitant of the archipelago the Yapurarra people (Jaburara or Yaburarra) was considered and it is likely that it was the members of that people who meet Parker King. [6] In 1868, the area was the place of the Flying Foam massacre, when a high number of Yaburarra was killed. [7]

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In addition to the Dampier Archipelago, the Buccaneer Archipelago also recalls William Dampier.

  1. ^ a b c ( IN ) Place No. 13 Dampier Archipelago (including Burrup Peninsula) ( PDF ), are Karratha.wa.gov.au , p. 112,117. URL consulted on May 31, 2018 .
  2. ^ a b Morris, p. 11 .
  3. ^ All W.A. Islands database ( PDF ), are Environment.gov.au . URL consulted on May 22, 2018 .
  4. ^ Morris, p. 4 .
  5. ^ James Burney, Cap. VII Voyage of Captain William Dampier, in the Roebuck, to New Holland , in A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean. Volume IV, To the Year 1723, including a History of the Buccaneers of America. , Londra, Luke Hansard & Sons, 1816, p. 400-406.
  6. ^ a b c Morris, p. 14 .
  7. ^ a b Australian Aboriginal art – The protection denied ( PDF ), are cesmap.it . URL consulted on May 31, 2018 .

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