Champion Bay is a coastal feature north of Geraldton, Western Australia, facing the port and city between Point Moore and Bluff Point.[1]
Champion Bay was named by Lieutenant John Lort Stokes of HMS Beagle, who surveyed the area in April 1840.[2] He named it after the colonial schooner Champion, in which 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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