Lagrange Bay | |
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Lagrange Bay | |
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| Coordinates: 18°41′04″S 121°46′39″E / 18.68442°S 121.77748°E / -18.68442; 121.77748 | |
| Country | Australia |
| State | Western Australia |
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| Population | |
| • Total | 617 (2016 census)1 |
| Postcode | 6725 |
Lagrange Bay is a coastal locality about 200 kilometres (120 mi) southwest of Broome, Western Australia in the Kimberley region. It is the site of the Catholic Pallottine La Grange Mission,2 and the Aboriginal community of Bidyadanga.3
History
Lagrange Bay was named in 1801 by the Baudin expedition to Australia after Italian-French mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736–1813).4
It was the location of the 1865 La Grange expedition, which found three men dead, having been speared and clubbed to death by Aboriginal people, and the subsequent massacre of Aboriginal people by the expedition party.
References
References
- Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Bidyadana (La Grange) (L)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
- "La Grange Mission celebrates its 50th anniversary.", Kimberley community profile, pp. 12–13, August 2005.
- "Welcome to the Bidyadanga CRC". WA Community Resource Network. Archived from the original on 20 February 2011. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
- "Naming Australia's Coastal Features".
Further reading
Further reading
- Zucker, Margaret (2005). From patrons to partners and the separated children of the Kimberley : a history of the Catholic Church in the Kimberley, WA. Fremantle, WA: University of Notre Dame Australia Press. ISBN 0-9579988-3-X