Camden Harbour

Camden Harbour and Sampson Inlet

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April 29th 2015
Geo: -15.4968, 124.616In the mid 19th© a property agent in Melbourne marketed a cooperative settlement in Camden Harbour.  People paid £100 for passage, land, supplies and sheep to start a new community in a “well watered land with large trees, grass and conditions suitable for the growing of many crops”. 120 people arrived in an alien environment with hostile aborigin ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more