Flying Foam Passage

Flying Foam Passage is a north-south passage between Angel Island and Dolphin Island in the Dampier Archipelago, near Dampier, Western Australia.[1]

The passage is named after the 33-ton coastal schooner Flying Foam,[2] which disappeared without trace in March 1872.[3] Its name is, however, most prominently associated with the 1868 massacre of indigenous Australians in the area.

The passage is a significant site of vessels lost.[4]

Notes
  1. "Place names search, Geoscience Australia". Archived from the original on 10 October 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2010.
  2. Dickson, Rod (1994) Ships registered in Western Australia from 1856 : their details, their owners and their fate Fremantle, W.A : Western Australian Maritime Museum Report (Western Australian Maritime Museum. Dept. of Maritime Archaeology) ; no. 80. v. 1 1856-1884
  3. Murray, Ian, with Marion Hercock (2008) Where on the coast is that? Carlisle, W.A. : Hesperian Press. ISBN 978-0-85905-452-2. page 107
  4. A sample of vessels from the 1890s: http://henrietta.liswa.wa.gov.au/record=b1790826~S2 ; http://henrietta.liswa.wa.gov.au/record=b1796464~S2 ; http://henrietta.liswa.wa.gov.au/record=b1796546~S2  ; http://henrietta.liswa.wa.gov.au/record=b1815269~S2  ; http://henrietta.liswa.wa.gov.au/record=b1815312~S2 ; http://henrietta.liswa.wa.gov.au/record=b1815690~S2

20°28′S 116°50′E

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