''Suda Bay'' was a 14.3 ton

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that was one of the first boats used for a commercial tourist operation in the

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. Between 1946 and 1948, ''Suda Bay'' and ''

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'' were used by Dal Gaze and Alan Fox to transport tourists to and from the Houtman Abrolhos, especially

Pelsaert Island Pelsaert Island is one of the islands of the Pelsaert Group, which is the southernmost of the three groups of islands that make up the Houtman Abrolhos island chain in Western Australia. Nominally located at , it consists of a numb ...

. This represents the first known commercial tourist operation in the Houtman Abrolhos. In 1948, the partnership between Gaze and Fox broke up, and thereafter Fox used ''Suda Bay'' for

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fishing in the vicinity of

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. A

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through the reefs just north of the island is today named Suda Bay Passage.

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