Australia Highseas

These waters lie in the Timor Sea off the Kimberley coast, a sea of tides, mangroves and shifting shoals. Macassan fishers from Sulawesi sailed to the northern Australian coasts for trepang long before British settlement. William Dampier's ships visited the northwest coast in the late seventeenth century, and Phillip Parker King surveyed these shores in the 1820s, naming bays and headlands as he went.