Frenchman Bay
| Frenchman Bay | ||
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 View over Frenchman Bay from the south with Mistaken Island in the center |
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| location | Torndirrup Peninsula , City of Albany , Great Southern , Western Australia | |
| Waters | King George Sound , Great Australian Bight | |
| Geographical location | 35 ° 5 '1 " S , 117 ° 56' 38" O | |
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| nature | sand | |
| Surroundings | suburban, developed | |
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| monitoring | no | |
The Frenchman Bay (German: Bay of the French or French Bay ) is a bay in Western Australia , about 20 kilometers south of Albany . It is part of the great King George Sound on the north bank of the Torndirrup Peninsula , formed by the Vancouver Peninsula jutting out to the north . Until 1875 it was called Quarantine Bay .
location
Frenchman Bay is home to Whalers Beach and Goode Beach . North of Goode Beach is the town of the same name and Lake Vancouver . In the southeast the bay borders the Torndirrup National Park . At the eastern end of the sandy beach of Whaler Beach was the historic whaling station Norwegian Bay Whaling Station .
history
Frenchman Bay was an important place in the recent history of the entire region. George Vancouver , the first European explorer of the King George Sound, went ashore here in 1791. As a result, a water source on Whalers Beach was repeatedly sought out by seafarers.
After the British founded Albany in 1826, all people arriving at Albany port were screened for smallpox . If an infection or suspected infection was found, these people were placed in a quarantine station on Mistaken Island , a small island off the northern end of Goode Beach. The entire area of Mistaken Island , including Goode Beach and Whalers Beach, was declared a Quartet area from 1836 and entered as Quartine Bay in early maps . This attribution was no longer used after 1875, when the new quarantine station "Quaranup" was built on the west coast of Vancouver Island and the discoverer and naval commander WE Archdeacon named the bay Frenchman Bay in newer maps. He knew that the French explorers Nicolas Baudin in 1803 and Jules Dumont d'Urville in 1826 had anchored off Whalers Bay to use the local source of fresh water to replenish their water supplies on their ships.
The source was used in 1900 to steamboats with water supply, for which a jetty (jetty) was built with lead. The water supply later enabled the establishment of whaling stations and was a destination for day trippers and tourists. A little north at what is now Goode Beach, a settler first settled on the peninsula. Later, a hostel and a campsite were built on Frenchman Bay at Whalers Beach, as the bay was popular with day trippers from Albany and tourists.
Today (2019) Frenchman Bay is a popular tourist destination. The bay is suitable for fishing, whale watching and many types of water sports can be enjoyed.
climate
Frenchman Bay has a Mediterranean climate . In 1991, temperatures rarely reached + 35 ° C in summer and just as rarely did they drop to + 5 ° C in winter. The average rainfall is 900–1000 mm per year.
Web links
- Frenchman Bay Association (website with information on the history and nature of the area, English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Frenchman Bay , on the Frenchman Bay Association (FBA). Retrieved July 30, 2019
- ^ A b Register of Heritage Places - Assessment Documentation: Frenchman Bay Whaling Station (ruin). (PDF) Heritage Council of Western Australia, 2008, accessed July 19, 2019 .
- ^ Frenchman Bay , on the Frenchman Bay Association (FBA). Retrieved July 30, 2019
- ^ The significance of the fresh water springs. In: Frenchman Bay Association. April 24, 2013, accessed July 19, 2019 .
- ^ Frenchman Bay , on the Frenchman Bay Association (FBA). Retrieved July 30, 2019