Broome (inhabited place)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Item
Low tide : pearling fleet, Broome, 1910
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3081B/47
Scope and Contents
200 x 145 mm. Showing four pearl ships on the sand, with a pier behind them. Broome, on the western side of Dampier Land, at Roebuck Bay, replaced Cossack as the main Australian pearling port in the 1890s. By 1903 Broome supported 300 pearling vessels.
Dates:
1910
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