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Pilbara Historical Timeline
This timeline is a selected list of events and locations of the development of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. See also * Kimberley historical timeline * Regions of Western Australia Western Australia (WA) is divided into regions according to a number of systems. The most common system is the division of the state by the Government of Western Australia in 1993 into regions for economic development purposes, which comprises ... References Further reading * Hamersley Iron (1985) Diary titled ''Hamersley Iron. The Pilbara Flora Collection 1984. The 18th Year of Hamersley Iron'' Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd Perth, WA. * Oakley, Glenda.(1992) ''More dates! : a Western Australian chronology 1930 to 1989'' Northbridge, W.A. Friends of Battye Library occasional paper; no. 3 * Trengrove, Alan (1976) ''Adventure in iron / Hamersley's First Decade'' Melbourne, Stockwell Press. {{ISBN, 0-909316-03-1 (Hamersley Chronology on end-pages) . Western Australian regional time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Walcott
Port Walcott, formerly known as Tien Tsin Harbour, is a large open water harbour located on the northwest coast of Western Australia, located near the town of Point Samson. History Before the port was established, the land was inhabited by the Ngarluma, an Aboriginal people. Early European exploration of northwest Western Australia commenced around the Nickol Bay and Port Walcott areas, as colonial settlers established pastoral and pearling industries in the late-19th century. Early shipping links to the outside world centred on the port of Cossack (formerly Tien Tsin), now a ghost town. In 1818, the explorer and surveyor Captain Phillip Parker King, in the ''Mermaid'', charted Nickol Bay. Visits to the region by American whalers are recorded to have occurred from around the 1840–50s. In April 1861, a government-funded expedition sailed to Nickol Bay in the ''Dolphin'', while in 1862, Bateman (of John and Walter Bateman) sent his vessel ''Flying Foam'' to harvest pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert John Sholl
Robert John Sholl (16 July 1819 – 19 June 1886) was a government administrator, magistrate, explorer, journalist, entrepreneur, harbourmaster, customs official, postmaster and lay reader in Western Australia (WA), during the colonial era. Because of his multiple, simultaneous roles, which carried judicial, political, cultural and commercial power and influence, Sholl is regarded as a significant figure in the history of North-West Australia, at an early stage of its settlement by Europeans. Between 1865 and 1881, Sholl was the most senior government official and only judicial officer in North West Australia between the Murchison River and Timor Sea – a jurisdiction known at the time as the North District. His headquarters at Roebourne was extremely isolated – messages took weeks to travel between Sholl and his immediate superior, Frederick Barlee, Colonial Secretary of Western Australia. Consequently, Sholl wielded considerable, '' de facto'' executive power; an obitu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyramid Station
Pyramid Station is a pastoral lease and cattle station located approximately east of Karratha in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The station has also previously run sheep on its pastures. Covering an area of , the station is situated in a bluetongue disease quarantine area and runs a herd of Brahman cattle, most of which are exported to Indonesia. The station consists mostly of open plains that are well covered in Mitchell, bundle-bundle and other grasses. The plains are interspersed with broken hilly country studded with saltbush. The homestead and outbuildings are situated on a level plain overlooking the George River from the eastern bank. King's Pyramid, the hill from which the station takes its name, is located to the south. The station was initially established in 1865 by Alexander Robert Richardson, his elder brother John Elliott Richardson, and their cousin A.E. Anderson. The Richardsons were among the seven shareholders in the Portland Squatting Comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cooya Pooya
Cooya Pooya Station most often referred to as Cooya Pooya or Cooyapooya is a pastoral lease operating as a sheep station in Western Australia. Description The property is situated approximately south of Roebourne and south east of Dampier along the banks of the Harding River in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The country is composed of open grassy plains and underlying slopes covered with spinifex. The unusual name of the station is a corruption of ''Cooa Pooey'', the Aboriginal name of a water hole near the homestead. History The first settlers in the area were the pastoralists W. A. Taylor and Thomas Lockyer, during the mid-1860s. Several years later, Taylor sold his interests and left the area, which had already become known as "Cooyapooyo", "Cooyapooya" and "Cooya Pooya". Lockyer, who arrived from Northam, had originally named his lease "Table Hill Station". By 1885 Lockyer and his four sons had a flock of 28,000 sheep which were shorn to produce 220 bale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Welcome Station
Mount Welcome Station is a pastoral lease that once operated as a sheep station but is now operated as a cattle station in Western Australia. The property was founded at the foot of Mount Welcome by John and Emma Withnell on the banks of the Harding River next to a freshwater pool called ''leramargadu''. The site is where the town of Roebourne is now located. The Withnell family comprised John, pregnant Emma, their children George and John, Emma's sister and brother Fanny and John Hancock, John's brother Robert and three servants. The group had intended to settle at Port Walcott but their ship, ''Sea Ripple'', ran aground at Port Hedland. It was later refloated and continued to Port Walcott, landing at Tien Tsin Harbour in April 1864. Only 86 sheep were saved of the 460 aboard. The family walked to the Harding River and settled at Mount Welcome. A homestead for the property was quickly constructed, a single room house made from stone, mud bats and the remains of their cargo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Withnell
Emma Mary Withnell (''née'' Hancock; 19 December 184216 May 1928), was the first white and female settler in north west Western Australia; a pioneering pastoralist and businessperson. A member of the Hancock family, later prominent in Western Australia, Emma Hancock was born at Guildford, Western Australia. She and her husband, John Withnell (1825–98), began operating a pastoral lease – Mount Welcome station, on the Harding River in 1864. The station homestead became the site of the first town in the north west, Roebourne. Biography Emma Hancock was born on 19 December 1842 in Guildford, Western Australia, the daughter of farmer George Hancock and his wife Sophia (''née'' Gregory). On 10 May 1859, she married John Withnell, the son of a stonemason who had migrated in 1830. In 1864, in the hopes of starting a farm, Withnell, her husband, her two children, and her sister Francis moved to Port Walcott on the ''Sea Ripple''; they encountered a shipwreck and lost mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherlock Station
Sherlock Station is a pastoral lease and sheep station located approximately East of Roebourne in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Covering an area of pasture, the lease provides good grazing land. In 2015 it was purchased by Bettini Bros, now Bettini Beef, in a package with Mallina and Pyramid Stations. The Bettinis still owned the lease in 2018. Sherlock is operating under the Crown Lease number CL311-1966 and has the Land Act number LA3114/558. The homestead was placed on the Register of the National Estate in 1986. The homestead complex is composed of the main homestead, the kitchen block, meat-house, storeroom, quarters, stables, wool-shed and overseer's house, all spread apart in a typical Pilbara layout. The main buildings are constructed from rubble masonry and have corrugated iron roofs, mostly with Pilbara vaulting. In 1879 John and Emma Withnell bought the station after selling Mount Welcome Station. They retired to Guildford in 1890. Emma Withnell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cossack, Western Australia
Cossack, known as Bajinhurrba in Ngarluma language, and formerly known as Tien Tsin, is a historic ghost town located north of Perth and from Roebourne in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The nearest town to Cossack, which is located on Butcher Inlet (also called Butcher's Inlet) at the mouth of the Harding River, is Wickham. The former Tien Tsin Harbour is now known as Port Walcott. Since 2021, the townsite is managed and operated by the Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi Foundation Ltd (NYFL). The area is an important cultural site for the Ngarluma, the traditional owners, who have inhabited the area for tens of thousands of years. The river mouth remains an important location for fishing and hunting traditional foods. There are many ancient petroglyphs in the area. Cossack is the birthplace of Western Australia's pearling industry and was the home of the colony's pearling fleet until the 1880s. The town was abandoned after the 1940s, leaving substantial stone buil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Padbury
Walter Padbury (22 December 1817 – 18 April 1907) was a British-born Australian pioneer, politician and philanthropist. Early life Padbury was born in Fawler in the English county of Oxfordshire on 22 December 1817 and baptised on 11 January 1818 at St James Church in nearby Stonesfield. Earlier sources gave his birthdate as 1820, but this has been shown to be incorrect. At the age of 12, Padbury was brought by his father to Fremantle, Western Australia, aboard the on 25 February 1830, before his father's death in July of that year. Padbury was left in the care of a married couple, who absconded with his inheritance, leaving Padbury as a homeless orphan. He held multiple occupations in an attempt to support himself, including shepherding near York for a £10 salary at the age of 16. By 1863, Padbury had saved enough money to arrange for his mother and other family members to immigrate to Australia, becoming one of the first settlers in North West Australia, squatting o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Hedland
A port is a maritime law, maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge Affreightment, cargo and passengers. Although usually situated on a sea coast or estuary, ports can also be found far inland, such as Port of Hamburg, Hamburg, Port of Manchester, Manchester and Duluth; these access the sea via rivers or canals. Because of their roles as ports of entry for immigrants as well as soldiers in wartime, many port cities have experienced dramatic multi-ethnic and multicultural changes throughout their histories. Ports are extremely important to the global economy; 70% of global merchandise trade by value passes through a port. For this reason, ports are also often densely populated settlements that provide the labor for processing and handling goods and related services for the ports. Today by far the greatest growth in port development is in Asia, the continent with some of the World's busiest ports, world's largest and busiest po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Hedland
Peter Hedland originally Lars Peter Hedlund, 14 March 1829 (Hudiksvall, Sweden) – 1881 (Lagrange Bay, Western Australia), was a significant figure in European settlement in North-West Australia. A mariner, explorer, and pearler; he was widely known as "Captain Hedland". Some contemporary accounts and some of Hedland's descendants have spelt the surname Headland, although it is not clear that he ever used this spelling. In 1863, he and the cutter ''Mystery'' he built and captained came to prominence after Hedland informed settlers of the existence of several landing places in the Pilbara region, including Port Hedland. Life After emigrating from Sweden to Western Australia in the 1850s, Hedland married Ellen Adams at Fremantle, Western Australia on 15 October 1858. Hedland built the 16-ton cutter ''Mystery'', at Point Walter on the banks of the Swan River. As its master, he was involved in shipping cargo for the earliest European settlers in the North-West. In early 1863, H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
