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Victoria Avenue, Dalkeith

Placename: Victoria Avenue, Dalkeith
Layer: WA Journey Ways - Aboriginal Camps Around WA
Link back to source:: http://batchelorpress.com/node/393
Type: Other

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Latitude: -31.98888889
Longitude: 115.7841667
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Layer Warning:: This layer contains historical information about Aboriginal people that may be distressing. It contains names of people who have passed away.; In the 1920s a resident recalled Aborigines camping each summer in a large stand of Wattle trees which ran down to the beach. "We did not see much of them except when occasionally they asked for water. This was not often, and we worked out they must have got their water by digging a hole in the beach sand a yard or two from the high tide mark anywhere along the beach. This water was a bit brackish but drinkable. Hence the name Freshwater Bay." (Ern Middleton, “I remember Swan River Playground,” unreferenced and undated newspaper article, Freshwater Bay Museum, PAS Aborigines Camps/Housing. Cited in Cook 2016).

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