Nickol Bay

Nickol Bay is a bay between the Burrup Peninsula and Dixon Island, on the Pilbara coast in Western Australia.

Once alternatively spelled "Nicol Bay", it was named by John Septimus Roe for a sailor who was lost overboard during an expedition.[1]

F. T. Gregory visited the bay a number of times in 1861.[2][3]

When the tiny Forlorn Hope sailed around the Bay in June 1865, they landed several times but found no signs of European habitation,[4] yet two years later a settlement named Roebourne had been established and the district's virtues for rearing sheep were being extolled widely.[5][6]

References
  1. "Location Map". Hamersley News. VI (13). Western Australia. 12 July 1973. p. 6. Retrieved 19 July 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. "Mr. F. T. Gregory's Expedition to the N. W. Coast of Australia". The Inquirer And Commercial News. XXII (1, 087). Western Australia. 27 November 1861. p. 2. Retrieved 17 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. "Gregory's Last Expedition to the North-West Coast of Australia". The Age (2, 237). Victoria, Australia. 26 December 1861. p. 7. Retrieved 17 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. "Voyage of the Forlorn Hope". The Adelaide Express. II (529). South Australia. 24 August 1865. p. 2. Retrieved 23 July 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. "Nickol Bay". The Perth Gazette And West Australian Times. 4 (12). Western Australia. 27 December 1867. p. 2. Retrieved 17 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. "Nickol Bay". The Inquirer And Commercial News. XXXI (1569). Western Australia. 23 December 1868. p. 3. Retrieved 17 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.

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