Admiralty Gulf
shown on map
51
Anchor Islandsee
Bessieres Island
Armadale225
Ashburton River32–33, 110, 123, 127, 137, 249, 263–265, 276
shown on map33
Balla Balla
cyclone, April 1898157
loading of copper ore149
shown on map150
Banningarra Creek244
Barrambi107
Beadon Point264–265
Beagle Bay
mission88–93
shown on map51
Bedout Island
confused with Bezout Island244–245
dangerous turning point185–186, 188, 196–197
focus of Koombana search188, 195–196
south-western reef188
unattended light44, 195, 198, 204–206, 250
Bernier Island30–31, 103–105, 109–110
shown on map29
Bessieres Island137
Bezout Island245–246
Bonaparte Archipelago
shown on map51
Bridgetown224
Broome
and White Australia policy269, 283
Chinatown134
cyclone, November 1910160
Davis residence “De Vahl”293–294, 300, 303
English pearl divers, 1912270–273, 297
ethnic mix44
illicit pearl trade308, 311–312, 323–324
Japanese quarter296
Mark Liebglid murder306, 308–311
Pearlers’ Association133–134
pearling industry221
prosperity45–46
Quarter Sessions, June 1909323–324
role of citizens in Koombana search187–189, 195–196
ships left stranded by tide65–66, 215
susceptibility to cyclones132–135
water supply226–227
winter pearling season219
Buccaneer Archipelago
shown on map51
Bunbury129
Cable Beach134
Cambridge Gulf
shown on map51
Camden Sound
shown on map51
Cape Bossut
Cape Bougainville
shown on map51
Cape Cuvier
shown on map29
Cape Inscription
shown on map29
Cape Latouche Treville271
Cape Leeuwin167
Cape Leveque46
Cape Levillain13
shown on map29
Cape Londonderry
shown on map51
Cape Peron
shown on map29
Cape Voltaire
shown on map51
Carnarvon
and Koombana search189
Carnarvon Hotel fire, 1913262–263
“Coffee Pot” locomotive28
commonage262
cyclones128
drought 1911–14261–263
flood, January 190929–30
gaol46
irrigation farming261–262
rat plague262–263
shown on map29
wealth from wool28
Collier Bay
shown on map51
Condon
cyclone of 1896129–130
demise of43–44
jetty planned but not built43
pearling126–127
Tiffany’s Jetty130
Traini’s Condon Hotel129–130
Coolgurra Creek124–125
Cossack
Asian population266–267
devastating cyclone, April 1898142
government buildings36
‘Japtown’131–132
naming and renaming of35
Paxton’s boarding house132
pearling industry301
settlement of121
Tee & Company132
town wharf36
tramway spur line265–267
Weld Hotel130–132
Cue225–226
Dalwallinu225
Dampier Archipelago196
Darlot107–108
De Grey River
shown on map33
Denham Sound
shown on map29
Denham
navigation channel13–14
absence of deepwater jetty28
first impressions of27
stench of ‘pogey’26
disembarkation of passengers14
hospitality18
anchorage70
shown on map29
Depuch Island
cyclone, February 191170
cyclone, March 1912149–163, 194, 259
graves158
squall, February 191066
Derby
description of49
engagement with Koombana274–275
extreme tides65–66
meat processing works50
royal commission hearings, 190496–98
shown on map185
shown on map29
Doorawarrah263
shown on map29
Drysdale River90
East Moore Island159
shown on map150
Egg Island Bay27
Eighty Mile Beach
cyclone, April 1908132–133
cyclone, December 1908133
cyclone, March 1887126–127
search for Koombana along188
Escape Pass47
shown on map47
Fitzroy River275
shown on map51
Forestier Bay
shown on map150
Fortescue River123–124
shown on map33
Fremantle
arrival of Koombana, February 19091
arrival of Otranto, July 191076
Castlemaine Brewery67
Comet Skating Rink229
Emerald Isle Hotel165
English divers, February 1912220–221
Fire Brigade68–70
Fremantle Gaol317–319
gaol259–260
Koombana firemen’s strike, 1911113–120
Liveringa shearers, March 1912224–225
planned wireless station84
police court113–114
reception for Bullarra, 1900146
Smith’s Railway Hotel214
storm, February 1893128–129
Waratah bottle hoax67
Gascoyne River
drought 1911–14262
shown on map29
vast catchment30
Geographe Channel
shown on map29
Geraldton
port facilities57
rowing club219
Liveringa shearers, March 1912225–226
anxiety for Koombana192
announcement, loss of Koombana203
Gingin223
Hadley Pass
shown on map47
Hamelin Pool128
Heirisson Flat, Shark Bay13–14
Isdell River96
Jarman Island34
Joseph Bonaparte Gulf
shown on map51
Kate Carney Island124
Kimberley region
beef cattle industry50–51, 274–278
pioneering families51
shown on map51
size of properties51
wool industry50–51
King Sound46–47
La Grange Bay96
shown on map185
Lagrange Baysee
La Grange Bay
Laverton107
Legendre Island70
Mangrove Islands125
Marble Bar267
Mary Ann Passage196
Mary Ann Patch124–125
Meda Pass
shown on map47
Meekatharra110
Minilya River262
Monkey Mia128
Montebello Islands189, 191, 194, 196, 258
Mount Magnet107
shown on map33
Naturaliste Channel
shown on map29
Nickol Bay Settlementsee
North-West Settlement
Ninety Mile Beachsee
Eighty Mile Beach
North West Cape31–32, 137, 179
shown on map33
North-West Settlement34–35
Northam225
Nullagine267
One Arm Point
shown on map47
Onslow
cyclone, February 1893127
approach to137
Ashburton Roads258
cyclone, April 190933–34
description of33
exposed anchorage137
jetty at Beadon Point264–265
lack of port facilities263–265
Mechanics’ Institute33
Peake’s Temperance Hotel33
relocation of264–265
Rob Roy Hotel33
shown on map33
uncertain future32
Ord River
shown on map51
Pearl Pass
shown on map47
Penguin Deeps
shown on map51
Pingelly223
Point Samson
jetty planned and built36
tramway to Roebourne37, 265–267
first auction of town land38–39
jetty damage predicted38
jetty damage, March 1912163, 259, 265–267
repair of Bullarra, March 1912190
Point Torment47–48
Poondina269
Port Darwinsee
Darwin
Port Hedland
cyclone, March 1912163
description of40
drought 1911–14267–269
engagement with Koombana267
first arrival of Koombana39
Koombana inquiry235, 237, 240–248
news of Koombana disaster200–202
Pilbara railway10, 66, 238–239, 267
school strike, March 1914268
Ritchie Reefsee
Tryall Rocks
Rockingham165
Roebourne
shown on map33
devastating cyclone, March 1872121–123
cyclone precautions124
arrival of Bin Ahmat, March 1912162
trial of Seleno and Cappelli163, 257–259
shown on map185
Rowley Shoals127, 184, 188, 191
Sable Island
shown on map150
Samson’s Pointsee
Point Samson
Sandstone107–108
Shark Bay
desolation of25
cyclone, February 1839121
eviction of Chinese, 188627
cyclone, February 1893128
Koombana grounding, March 190913–24, 39, 55, 57–58, 69
pearling association26–27
no deepwater jetty324
shown on map29
Solitary Island244
Steep Point
shown on map29
Sunday Island
shown on map47
Sunday Strait46
shown on map47
Swan Island
shown on map47
Tien Tsin Harbour34–35
Tryall Rocks196
Tuckanarra223
Turkey Creek52
Turtle Islands243
Wallal307
West Moore Island
shown on map150
“West Pilbarra”, district36
Whim Creek
miner’s strike, 1911251–252
cultural issues251
Federal Hotel affray, December 1911149, 253–256, 258
Whim Creek Hotel253–254
police station256
funeral, Thomas Darlington257
Wooramel River262–263
Wyndham
beef processing facility276–278
cattle port191
description of50
effect of Koombana strike, 1911179
gaol50
jetty53
nearness to Asia50
‘night life’51
remoteness178
shown on map51
summer storm, February 191171
terminus port72
voyage from Derby50
Yalobia263
Yaringa263
Youanmi229