In 1879, Charles Harper suggested that the pearling industry could be served by a port closer to the pearling grounds and that Roebuck Bay would be suitable.

On the eastern shore are the waters of Roebuck Bay extending from the main jetty at Port Drive to Sandy Point, west of Thangoo station.

Roebuck Bay is of international importance for the millions of migratory waders or shorebirds that use it seasonally on migration through the East Asian – Australasian Flyway from their breeding grounds in northern Asia.

The Broome Bird Observatory, sited in pindan woodland close to the northern shore of Roebuck Bay, was established by Birds Australia in 1988, and formally opened in 1990.

Migrating waders in Roebuck Bay, Western Australia

Sandpipers spending the non-breeding season in Roebuck Bay, Western Australia

Dampier then followed the coast northeast, reaching the Dampier Archipelago and then Lagrange Bay, just south of what is now called Roebuck Bay all the while recording and collecting specimens, including many shells.

Roebuck was located in Clarence Bay Ascension Island 2001 by a team from the Western Australian Museum.

He believed that they made kidnapping raids and ranged as far south as Roebuck Bay ( later Broome ) where ‘ quite a fleet ’ was seen around 1866.

Despite the accident, the expedition proceeded to the west coast, which was surveyed as far as Roebuck Bay.

Lake Argyle and other wetlands of the Ord and the Kimberley are important habitats while there are important populations of shorebirds in the Ord estuary, Eighty-mile Beach and Roebuck Bay, which has been described as " one of the most important stop-over areas for shorebirds in Australia and globally ".

* July 26-William Dampier's expedition to New Holland ( Australia ) in HMS Roebuck reaches Dirk Hartog Island at the mouth of what he calls Shark Bay in Western Australia and begins producing the first known detailed record of Australian flora and fauna.

That year, he also invested in the unsuccessful attempt to establish a pastoral settlement at Roebuck Bay.

The red sand beaches of northern Roebuck Bay

Roebuck Bay is a bay on the coast of the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

Roebuck Bay is a 550 km < sup > 2 </ sup > ( 210 mi < sup > 2 </ sup >) tropical, marine embayment.

Roebuck Bay experiences a hot semi-arid climate ( Köppen, Bsh ).

Roebuck Bay lies in the traditional country of the Jukun and Yawuru Aboriginal peoples.

Waders in flight across Roebuck Bay

Waders roosting on Campsite Beach, Roebuck Bay

Eleven mangrove species are found in Roebuck Bay.

Broome is a major tourist destination, and Roebuck Bay is used for recreational and tourism activities such as fishing, sightseeing and birdwatching.

In the 1890s, Roebuck Bay was the terminus of a proposed but stillborn land grant railway from Angle Pole across the border in the Northern Territory.

As with other chains at the time, such as Sears, Roebuck and Co., Montgomery Ward and J. C. Penney, Western Auto's firearms were sold under a proprietary brand.

In 1988, Sears Roebuck purchased Western Auto from Wesray Capital, which resulted in greater tire selections, and in Craftsman tools and DieHard batteries being sold at Western Auto stores.

Specifically in return, Sears Roebuck became " one of the largest shareholders " after obtaining a 40 % stake in Advance Auto Parts, and by merging their two store networks, which included Western Auto's wholesale and retail operations.

Although many papers were lost with the Roebuck, Dampier was able to save many new charts of coastlines, and his record of trade winds and currents in the seas around Australia and New Guinea.

Bedout (), or more specifically the Bedout High, is a geological and geophysical feature centered about 250 km off the northwestern coast of Australia in the Canning and overlying Roebuck basins.

It is named after HMS Roebuck, the ship captained by William Dampier when he explored the coast of north-western Australia in 1699.

The CUC is divided into four regions: " BC " ( British Columbia ), " Western " ( Alberta to Thunder Bay ), " Central " ( between Thunder Bay and Kingston ), and " Eastern " ( Kingston, Ottawa and everything east of that ).

The first known contact between Guam and Western Europe occurred when Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer, anchored his small 3-ship fleet in Umatac Bay on March 6, 1521.

:: Eastern District <> Causeway Bay <> Wan Chai <> Central & Western District

In the years 1953 – 66 the Colts played in the NFL Western Conference ( also known as division ), but were never known to have a significant rivalry with any of the other franchises in that alignment, seeing as they were the eastern-most team and the rest of the division included the Great Lakes franchises Green Bay, Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears, and after 1961, the Minnesota Vikings.

In the Western Pyrenees, from the Basque mountains near the Bay of Biscay of the Atlantic Ocean, the average elevation gradually increases from west to east.

Eastern Rhode Island contains the lowlands of the Narragansett Bay, while Western Rhode Island forms part of the New England Upland.

Salt produced from San Francisco Bay is produced in salt evaporation ponds and is shipped throughout the Western United States to bakeries, canneries, fisheries, cheese makers and other food industries and used to de-ice winter highways, clean kidney dialysis machines, for animal nutrition, and in many industries.

They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference ( NFC ), and joined the NFL in 1976 as an expansion team along with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The Colts did well under Shula, losing to the Cleveland Browns in the 1964 NFL Championship Game and, in 1965, losing in overtime to the Green Bay Packers in a tiebreaking game to decide the NFL Western Division championship.

In the playoffs, Green Bay returned to its dominant form, blowing away their first playoff opponent, the Los Angeles Rams, in the Western Conference Championship Game, 28 – 7.

Based in Canberra, at the Defence Headquarters at Russell Offices it operates monitoring facilities at Kojarena, Western Australia and at Shoal Bay, Northern Territory, which are believed to be part of the ECHELON system.

The DSD operates at least two receiving stations: the Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station ( ADSCS ), located at Kojarena, near Geraldton in Western Australia, and the Shoal Bay Receiving Station, located at Shoal Bay, Northern Territory.

North of Frederick Sound to Cape Spencer, and including Glacier Bay and the Lynn Canal, are the Northern Tlingit, who occupy the warmest and richest of the Sitka Spruce and Western Hemlock forest.

* Castle Rock, Geograph Bay near Dunsborough, Western Australia

Acre (, Akko ;, ʻAkkā ), is a city in the Western Galilee region of northern Israel at the northern extremity of Haifa Bay.

The Chesapeake Bay Bridge connects Queen Anne's of the Eastern Shore to Anne Arundel County on the Western Shore.

One of the lineages stretches all the way from Moreton Bay to Western Australia, while the other only stretches from Moreton Bay to the Northern Territory.

Australia is home to the largest population, stretching from Shark Bay in Western Australia to Moreton Bay in Queensland.

Australian cuisine features Australian seafood such as: Southern bluefin tuna, King George whiting, Moreton Bay bug, Mud Crab, Jew Fish, Dhufish ( Western Australia ) and Yabby.

Modern stromatolites in Shark Bay, Western Australia

One such location is Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve, Shark Bay in Western Australia where excellent specimens are observed today, and another is Lagoa Salgada, state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, where modern stromatolites can be observed as bioherm ( domal type ) and beds.