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Champion Bay was named by Lieutenant John Lort Stokes of HMS Beagle , who surveyed the area in April 1840.[2] Champion George Fletcher Moore had travelled to the region and first located the bay in January of that year.[3] [4]
The locality at the bay was also called Champion Bay. The townsite of Geraldton was surveyed in 1850, named after Captain Charles Fitzgerald , 4th Governor of Western Australia .[5]
The area around Champion Bay was traditionally inhabited by an Aboriginal people who spoke the Nhanhagardi language .[6]
In 1877 a lighthouse was with a diptric lens was built at Bluff Point in Champion Bay. The upper square portion was 7.5 metres high while the lower octagonal base was 11.3 metres high.[7]
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^ "Expedition to the Northwest" . The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal 23 . Retrieved 6 November 2014 .
^ Kimberly, Warren Bert (1897). "13. Land Laws; Exploration; Australiand Settlement 1839-1842". History of West Australia Co . Retrieved 22 April 2014 .
^ Gregory, A.C. (15 March 1850). "Assist.-Surv.-Gregory's Report" . The Perth Gazette and Independent Journal of Politics and News 2 . Retrieved 22 April 2014 .
^ "A93: Nhanhagardi" . Austlang . AIATSIS. Retrieved 14 January 2020 .
^ Lighthouses of the World, AG Findlay, 1879,
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