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

* 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 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.

Let me pass over the trip to Sante Fe with something of the same speed which made Mrs. Roebuck `` wonduh if the wahtahm speed limit '' ( 35 m.p.h. ) `` is still in ee-faket ''.

It is named after Julius Rosenwald, Chicago ( 1862-1932 ), President of Sears and Roebuck.

Roebuck is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States.

Roebuck is home to the Walnut Grove Plantation, a preserved 18th-century farmhouse and tourist attraction.

Roebuck is located at ( 34. 884195 ,-81. 960597 ).

According to the Rayleigh Civic Society, " Roa " is a Saxon word for Roebuck and " Lea " a pasture probably for goats.

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.

On the east side of Birmingham, US 11 is known locally as 1st Avenue North and as Roebuck Parkway.

However, Phantascope is also the name given to two different, later, projection-based moving picture devices by John Arthur Roebuck Rudge.

It is the first time that a project of this type is presented publicly since the proposal that John A. Roebuck had made in the same direction to John George Lambton while he was a governor of the Canadas in 1838.

He was lapped by the leaders after just seven laps of the race, and after fourteen he retired from the race with cramp in his left arm-but this drew paddock wide criticism as Estoril is a clockwise circuit, which requires more work from the right arm, and English F1 journalist Nigel Roebuck made scathing comments about Délétraz's performance in the race.

Roebuck Road defines the southernmost end of Clonskeagh ; this area is sometimes known as Roebuck and occasionally considered to be part of Windy Arbour.

The area is principally defined by the Clonskeagh Road and its extension into Roebuck Road, which spans its length.

There is a mid-20th century Catholic church on Bird Avenue, and the Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland and primary school is on Roebuck Road.

I tore the baffle off my electric organ, cranked up the tiny Sears and Roebuck mail order amp, and sang that raggedy book from cover to cover, memorizing beat street lyrics, adopting the wail of a moaning man of constant sorrow, a tambourine man, a weather man, only a pawn, only a hobo, but one more is gone, leaving nobody to sing his sad song, and on and on.

1746: A Sulphuric acid factory is set up at Steelhouse Lane to use the lead chamber process invented by its co-founder John Roebuck, Roebuck and local businessman Samuel Garbett later relocate to Prestonpans in Scotland, taking with them several skilled men from the Birmingham factory, it is here in 1762 where Roebuck takes out a patent for making malleable iron.

The IBA also encompasses the low-lying, occasionally inundated, coastal grasslands to the east of the bay on Roebuck Plains Station, including Lake Eda, where many waders roost during very high tides.

On hearing in Fremantle of the failure at Camden Harbour, they decided to sail for the settlement at Roebuck Bay instead, but after failing to enter the bay due to adverse winds, the settlers were disembarked at Tien Tsin, later to be called Cossack the chief port and landing at Nickol Bay.