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NameWA Journey Ways - Dampier Peninsula
DescriptionThe WA Journey Ways project relates Aboriginal travel routes with main roads and geology. There are spiritual and archeological histories of the route now taken by the Broome-Cape Leveque Road.
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ContributorDr Bill Pascoe
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Added to System2022-10-16 23:05:11
Updated in System2022-10-16 23:08:19
Subject indigenous, aboriginal, history, deep time
CreatorDr Francesca Robertson, Dr Noel Nannup, Alison Nannup
PublisherWA Journey Ways is a collaboration of Kurongkurl Katitjin, Edith Cowan University and WA Main Roads
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Peninsula

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Peninsula
Type
Other

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Latitude
-16.82138889
Longitude
122.8925
Start Date
-50000
End Date
3000

Description

People have lived here since bugarrigarra (the time before time) when Galaloong, travelled down the Peninsula, naming places and giving law. From an archeological perspective the first visitors, around 50,000 years ago did not encounter a Peninsula but an inland, dome shaped mountain rising some 210- 290 meters above sea level. Then it was cooler and wetter and sea levels were lower. The islands at the top of what is now King Sound would then have been a ridge of hills. This means the Fitzroy River flowed into a vast freshwater lake. Nyulnyulan, the language group of the area is spoken across the Peninsula and up the banks of the Fitzroy River.

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2022-10-16 23:06:19
Updated At
2023-12-11 17:48:38

Coastline 50,000 years ago

Placename
Coastline 50,000 years ago
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Other

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Latitude
-16.37277778
Longitude
122.8958333
Start Date
-50000
End Date
3000

Description

There were two groups from the beginning, Saltwater People who lived on the coast and Wanangarrjak (mountain people) who lived on the dome.

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Coastline 25,000 years ago

Placename
Coastline 25,000 years ago
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Other

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Latitude
-15.58333333
Longitude
121.2338889
Start Date
-25000
End Date
3000

Description

By 25,000 years ago the Last Glacial Maximum caused a Great Drought across the country and sea levels were much lower. The dome is something of camelโ€™s hump for the rocks and sediment that comprise it function as aquifers to a range of water bodies. Life was sustainable on the dome and, if there were shallows, sustainable on the coast.

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2022-10-16 23:06:19
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2023-12-11 17:48:38

Coastline 8,000 years ago

Placename
Coastline 8,000 years ago
Type
Other

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Latitude
-16.70777778
Longitude
122.5911111
Start Date
-8000
End Date
3000

Description

The planet had warmed, rain systems returned, and the sea level rose to its current levels. Saltwater people rose with the coast. The freshwater lake was inundated and became a tidal inlet. People were now in a number of distinct groups Jabirr Jabirr/Ngumbarl; NyulNyul; Nimanbur; Bardi and Jawi and Yawuru each โ€˜with a little bit different tongueโ€™.

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2022-10-16 23:06:19
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2023-12-11 17:48:38

Coastal route

Placename
Coastal route
Type
Other

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Latitude
-17.41
Longitude
122.1825
Start Date
End Date

Description

The earlier route was probably closer to the coast. It was used it for trade; shells, coastal boomerangs and shields came south and white ochre and shovel spears went north.

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2022-10-16 23:06:19
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2023-12-11 17:48:38

Baragon (Cygnet Bay)

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Baragon (Cygnet Bay)
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Other

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Latitude
-16.465
Longitude
122.9927778
Start Date
1699
End Date
1699

Description

Pirate and explorer William Dampier (1651-1715) landed on Bardi country. Local Aboriginal people tend to describe their area as the Peninsula, Dampier being superfluous to their requirements.

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2022-10-16 23:06:19
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2023-12-11 17:48:38

Doonjurut Beagle Bay

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Doonjurut Beagle Bay
Type
Other

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Latitude
-15.97611111
Longitude
122.59
Start Date
1836
End Date
1836

Description

Newdumbrue, who was also called Uncle Albert Kelly, told this story many years ago about Darwinโ€™s visit on the Beagle in 1836. Darwin saw kids on the beach huddled over. He gathered up some shipโ€™s biscuits and tinned meat and came ashore. The kids were playing a game like marbles, using black and white pearls. He swapped the pearls for the biscuits and tinned meat and took news of his find back home.

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2022-10-16 23:06:19
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2023-12-11 17:48:38

Roebuck Bay

Placename
Roebuck Bay
Type
Other

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Latitude
-17.97027778
Longitude
122.2911111
Start Date
1885
End Date
1890

Description

Pearlers arrived in the 1880s. They did terrible things, they cleared the mudflats of oysters, they took young men to use as divers and young women to use as sex slaves. One of the very young men they took was Ngoordinyboor, also called Felix. Along with others on the boat Felix became sick and died, the pearlers landed somewhere on Ninety Mile Beach to bury them. That night Felixโ€™s special spirits the possum and crow called out for him and woke him up. He started walking back to his people. He saw the boat returning and called out, people were afraid thinking he was a ghost. The boat picked him up and took him back home and he became a leader of his people. He married Madelene, a Jabirr Jabirr woman from Winawal (Sandy point).

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2022-10-16 23:06:19
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2023-12-11 17:48:38

Derby

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Derby
Type
Other

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Latitude
-17.30527778
Longitude
123.6280556
Start Date
End Date

Description

In 1890 small group of monks came from Derby across the Peninsula on packhorses. Felix was the first to help the monks and was later converted.

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2022-10-16 23:06:19
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2023-12-11 17:48:38

Nileribanjen (Broome)

Placename
Nileribanjen (Broome)
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-17.95472222
Longitude
122.2452778
Start Date
End Date

Description

After the various missions came there was more regular travel up and down the Peninsula from Nileribanjen (Broome), to Djarindjin (Lombadina) and through to Ardyaloon (One Arm Point). At first they used a donkey and cart. When it arrived at Ngarlan boys from the school had to take it to the presbytery at Djarindjin. This took a long time and the boys often did not get back until two oโ€™clock in the morning, they still had to get up for school.

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2022-10-16 23:06:19
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2023-12-11 17:48:38

Djarindjin (Lombadina)

Placename
Djarindjin (Lombadina)
Type
Other

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Latitude
-16.51444444
Longitude
122.8930556
Start Date
End Date

Description

After the various missions came there was more regular travel up and down the Peninsula from Nileribanjen (Broome), to Djarindjin (Lombadina) and through to Ardyaloon (One Arm Point). At first they used a donkey and cart. When it arrived at Ngarlan boys from the school had to take it to the presbytery at Djarindjin. This took a long time and the boys often did not get back until two oโ€™clock in the morning, they still had to get up for school.

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2022-10-16 23:06:19
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2023-12-11 17:48:38

Ardyaloon (One Arm Point)

Placename
Ardyaloon (One Arm Point)
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-16.44472222
Longitude
123.0597222
Start Date
End Date

Description

After the various missions came there was more regular travel up and down the Peninsula from Nileribanjen (Broome), to Djarindjin (Lombadina) and through to Ardyaloon (One Arm Point). At first they used a donkey and cart. When it arrived at Ngarlan boys from the school had to take it to the presbytery at Djarindjin. This took a long time and the boys often did not get back until two oโ€™clock in the morning, they still had to get up for school.

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2022-10-16 23:06:19
Updated At
2023-12-11 17:48:38

Broome/Cape Leveque Road

Placename
Broome/Cape Leveque Road
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-17.88839167
Longitude
122.2784306
Start Date
End Date

Description

A little later on a big red International Dodge truck was used. During the Second World War, Aboriginal and Asian people in Nileribanjen were trucked up north and the white people were trucked south to safety. The road begins just outside Broome.

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2022-10-16 23:06:19
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2023-12-11 17:48:38

Beagle Bay Mission

Placename
Beagle Bay Mission
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-16.98361111
Longitude
122.6647222
Start Date
End Date

Description

After the war the truck took cattle and garden produce to Nileribanjen to be sold and brought supplies and Stolen Children to the missions. The truck drivers and mechanics were often the boys who had taken the mail to Djarindjin. After the referendum in 1967 when we were allowed to use services the drivers used to take the pregnant ladies to Nileribanjen for their appointments and to have their babies.

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2022-10-16 23:06:19
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2023-12-11 17:48:38

Broome/Cape Leveque Road

Placename
Broome/Cape Leveque Road
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-16.44988889
Longitude
123.0486083
Start Date
End Date

Description

The road finished at Ardyaloon. It has been improved over the years, but it was always a very uncomfortable ride and hard on vehicles. It was finally sealed in 2020.

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2022-10-16 23:06:19
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