Point Cloates - Wikipedia
WEBThe first Point Cloates Lighthouse (built in 1910). Point Cloates), formerly known as Cloate's Island, is a peninsula approximately 100 kilometres south south-west of North West Cape, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Point Cloates Lighthouse - Lighthouses of Australia Inc.
WEBPoint Cloates Lighthouse. The abandoned tower of the Point Cloates Lighthouse stands starkly on a sandhill ridge near Ningaloo in north Western Australia. Built in 1910, the light is one of five built with Commonwealth funding before …
Point Cloates - Wikiwand
WEBPoint Cloates, formerly known as Cloate's Island, is a peninsula approximately 100 kilometres south south-west of North West Cape, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Point Cloates - Beach in Ningaloo Exmouth WA - SLS Beachsafe
WEBPoint Cloates beach (WA 1533) commences at the southern tip of the point and trends to the northwest, then north for 1.5 km, terminating in a small embayment 700 m west of the Point Cloates Light. Continuous fringing reefs lie …
Old Point Cloates Lighthouse (Ruins) - WA - ExplorOz
WEBPoint Cloates lighthouse was built in 1910 from local limestone on the hill near Ningaloo Station homestead. The lighthouse was particularly remote and the living conditions were cramped with the two lighthouse keepers living in one cottage with their families.
Stefano, 1875 - Western Australian Museum
WEBOct 2, 2022 · Point Cloates is known as a ‘ship trap’ due to its combination of coastal-setting current, offshore reefs, low-lying land (which is hard to see at night), and north-west trending coast in an area where many ships are on a north-east course.
Correio da Azia | Maritime Archaeology Databases
WEBPoint Cloates. 1817 Emilla was dispatched to salvage the Correio da Azia. Capt. Pedro Jose da Silva Loureiro, Pilot Luis Beltrao. The Correio da Azia was ‘coming from Lisbon to Macau against weather, seas and wind, fire, shallows and coastal dangers and errors of maps’ (de Freitas 1816) when it ran aground on Ningaloo reef on 26 November, 1816.
inHerit - State Heritage Office
WEBWithin 1 kilometre of Ningaloo Homestead that is located in close proximity to the Indian Ocean, a track veers to the south west and skirts around the base of Cloates Hill, to approach Point Cloates Lighthouse & Quarters (ruins) from the west.
Heritage Council of WA - Places Database - Western Australian …
WEBDuring the latter part of 1948, a party arrived at Norwegian Bay, now known as Point Cloates and began the Nor West Whaling Company.
Point Cloates Whaling Station in the 1950s
WEBThe Point Cloates operations began in July 1949. Whaling was a bloody, grisly affair. Once the whale was tracked and killed its carcass was dragged from the water where the skin was stripped off the blubber using winches, with flensers using sharp knives to help.
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