Flying Foam Passage is a north-south passage between Angel Island and Dolphin Island in the

Dampier Archipelago The Dampier Archipelago is a group of 42 islands near the town of Dampier, Western Australia, Dampier in Pilbara, Western Australia. The archipelago is also made up of reefs, shoals, channels and straits and is the traditional home of five Ab ...

, near

Dampier, Western Australia Dampier is a major industrial port in the Pilbara region in the northwest of Western Australia. It is located near the city of Karratha and Port Walcott. Dampier Port is part of the Dampier Archipelago and is primarily a port for the export ...

. The passage is named after the 33-ton coastal schooner ''Flying Foam'', which disappeared without trace in March 1872. Its name is, however, most prominently associated with the 1868

massacre A massacre is an event of killing people who are not engaged in hostilities or are defenseless. It is generally used to describe a targeted killing of civilians Glossary of French words and expressions in English#En masse, en masse by an armed ...

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in the area. The passage is a significant site of vessels lost.A sample of vessels from the 1890s: http://henrietta.liswa.wa.gov.au/record=b1790826~S2 ; http://henrietta.liswa.wa.gov.au/record=b1796464~S2 ; http://henrietta.liswa.wa.gov.au/record=b1796546~S2 ; http://henrietta.liswa.wa.gov.au/record=b1815269~S2 ; http://henrietta.liswa.wa.gov.au/record=b1815312~S2 ; http://henrietta.liswa.wa.gov.au/record=b1815690~S2

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