Wyndham, WA
June 15th 2012 Wyndham
15th June 2012
In 1819 Phillip Parker King was the first European to visit the area. He was commissioned to find a river 'likely to lead to an interior navigation of the great continent'. King found the Cambridge Gulf, which he named after the Duke of Cambridge, and then sailed up a river which was subsequently named after him. Finding no fresh water on the mudflat
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