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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.
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Dampier and then
In 1679 Dampier crewed with buccaneer Captain Bartholomew Sharp on the Spanish Main of Central America, twice visiting the Bay of Campeche or " Campeachy " as it was then known ( see map opposite ) on the north coast of Mexico.
The vain search for La Pérouse was then resumed to Santa Cruz, then along the southern coasts of the Solomon Islands, the northern parts of the Louisiade Archipelago, through the Dampier Strait, along the northern coast of New Britain and the southern coast of the Admiralty Islands, and thence north of New Guinea to the Moluccas.
She was then towed to the carriage works in Eveleigh, where she was stored pending delivery to her ultimate destination, Dampier, Western Australia.
Dampier and coast
In October 1704, after the ships had parted ways because of a dispute between Stradling and Dampier, the Cinque Ports was brought by Stradling to an island that is today known as Robinson Crusoe Island in the uninhabited archipelago of Juan Fernández off the coast of Chile for a mid-expedition restocking of supplies and fresh water.
* William Dampier explores the northwest coast of Australia.
In 1697 William Dampier referred to a " Lagune or Lake of Salt water " on the coast of Mexico.
While the English adventurer and buccaneer William Dampier was traveling around the world in search of business opportunities, he found himself on the southeastern coast of India, in Tamil Nadu on the Bay of Bengal.
The vessels described by Dampier are still in use today on the coast of Tamil Nadu, in Southeastern India.
His ship was rotten and its carpenter apparently inept, so Dampier was forced to abandon his plan to examine the east coast of New Holland while less than a hundred miles from it.
Another early visitor was Englishman William Dampier who in 1699 sailed down the western coast of Australia.
* 1688 and 1699-William Dampier in the Cygnet explored the northwest coastline and sailed down the coast.
In 1699 William Dampier would explore the coast of Australia and New Guinea.
It is named after HMS Roebuck, the ship captained by William Dampier when he explored the coast of north-western Australia in 1699.
Dampier and Archipelago
Sailing east, he traced the southeastern coasts of New Hanover, New Ireland and New Britain, charting the Dampier Strait between these islands ( now the Bismarck Archipelago ) and New Guinea.
The port of Dampier and the Dampier Archipelago, both in Western Australia, are named in honour of William Dampier.
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* Donaldson, Mike, Burrup Rock Art: Ancient Aboriginal Rock Art of Burrup Peninsula and Dampier Archipelago, Fremantle Arts Press, 2010.
The Dampier Port is part of the Dampier Archipelago.
The town derives its name from the nearby Dampier Archipelago, named after the English buccaneer William Dampier, who visited the area in 1699.
There are 42 islands within the Dampier Archipelago.
Green turtles, ( Chelonia mydas ) are also known to nest in the Dampier Archipelago.
Category: Dampier Archipelago
* Art and Archaeology of the Dampier Archipelago
Dampier and Bay
After the 2002 – 03 season, Garry St. Jean's earlier mistakes of committing money to players like Danny Fortson, Adonal Foyle and Erick Dampier were painfully felt by Warriors fans when the team was unable to re-sign up-and-coming star Gilbert Arenas, despite Arenas's desire to stay in the Bay Area.
Following the Dutch routes to the Indies, on 26 July 1699, Dampier reached Dirk Hartog Island at the mouth of what he called Shark Bay in Western Australia.
Shark Bay was named by William Dampier, in 1699.
Dampier and south
The red sandy soil of the Dampier Peninsula in the south is known for its characteristic pindan wooded grassland while in the more fertile areas like the Ord valley the trees are grasslands of Chrysopogon, Aristida, Dicanthium and Xerochloa ( rice grass ) in the wetter valleys.
* Dampier ( Da ) and Hall ( Ha ) Districts in the south
Dampier and what
But in 1688 he only visited the north of what was later named the Dampier Peninsula.
Elkin cites what he in his professional opinion is evidence that traders from Indonesia brought fleeting contact of Buddhism and Hinduism to areas near modern-day Dampier.
Dampier and is
All iron ore mined at the sites is transported on the Hamersley & Robe River railway, one of the world's largest privately owned railroads to either the port of Dampier, Western Australia or Cape Lambert near Wickham, Western Australia.
It is thought that this was in response to Dampier violating the trade monopoly.
Dampier is credited with laying out the town and naming it Tompkinsville.
The first European to visit Broome is often mistakenly thought to be William Dampier.
It is separated from the island of New Guinea by the Dampier and Vitiaz Straits and from New Ireland by St. George's Channel.
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Dampier is a major industrial port in the north-west of Western Australia.
The southern end of the Kimberley beyond the Dampier Peninsula is flatter with dry tropical grassland and is used for cattle ranching.
Although a minority of pirate scholars dismiss the accepted version of the pirate quartermaster's importance, it is well supported by the extant secondary sources such as Charles Johnson, Cordingly and Botting, and overwhelmingly borne out by the primary sources, including Ringrose, Dampier, Snelgrave, Trott, and George Roberts.
The land west of Dampier Avenue was developed during the mid-late 1980s and, although part of Kallaroo, is known as Northshore, in reference to the project name of the housing estate.
Karratha, together with its nearby sister town Dampier, is home to the North West Shelf oil & gas project, and the Pilbara's number two iron ore exporting port.
Karratha is a town adjoining the port of Dampier in the Pilbara region of Western Australia which was developed from the 1960s to accommodate the processing and exportation workforce of the Hamersley Iron mining company and, in the 1980s, the petroleum and liquefied natural gas operations of the North West Shelf Venture.
Erick Travez Dampier ( born July 14, 1975 ) is an American professional basketball player who has most recently played for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).
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