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Champion Bay

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In 1877 a lighthouse was with a diptric lens was built at Bluff Point in Champion Bay. The upper square portion was 7.5 metres high while the lower octagonal base was 11.3 metres high.
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Kimberly, Warren Bert (1897). "13. Land Laws; Exploration; Australiand Settlement 1839-1842".
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had travelled to the region and first located the bay in January of that year.
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The locality at the bay was also called Champion Bay. The townsite of
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The area around Champion Bay was traditionally inhabited by an
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Champion Bay, Western Australia
Geraldton, Western Australia
Point Moore
Bluff Point
John Lort Stokes
HMS Beagle
Champion
George Fletcher Moore
Geraldton
Charles Fitzgerald
Governor of Western Australia
Aboriginal
Nhanhagardi language
Gazetteer of Australia
Archived
Wayback Machine
Stokes, John Lort
Discoveries in Australia, with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of the Beagle, 1837–1843, Volume 2
"Expedition to the Northwest"
The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal
History of West Australia
Gregory, A.C.
"Assist.-Surv.-Gregory's Report"
The Perth Gazette and Independent Journal of Politics and News
"A93: Nhanhagardi"
28°45′S 114°36′E / 28.750°S 114.600°E / -28.750; 114.600
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Western Australia
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