Dampier, Western Australia
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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.
William Dampier
Iron Ore
"Red Dog" statue
Dampier panorama, November 2006
William Dampier
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William Dampier was an English explorer, pirate, privateer and naturalist who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumnavigate the world
Dampier, Western Australia
…its name from its location on Dampier Island 3 km off the Pilbara Coast and part of the Dampier Archipelago, both named after the English navigator William Dampier. In 1963, the island became an artificial peninsula when it was connected to the mainland by a causeway for a road and railway. In 1979, Dampier Peninsula…
Giolo (Jeoly) of Miangas, who became a slave in Mindanao, and bought by William Dampier together with Jeoly's mother, who died at sea. Jeoly was exhibited in London in 1691 to large crowds as a sideshow, until he died of smallpox three months later.
Australian plant life from Dampier's A Voyage to New Holland, published in 1703
Engraving of Dampier's encounter with the storm off Aceh, in modern-day Indonesia, by Caspar Luyken