Lagrange Bay is located south of
Broome, Western Australia
Broome, also known as Rubibi by the Yawuru people, is a coastal pearling and tourist town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, north of Perth. In the the population was recorded as 14,660. It is the largest town in the Kimberley reg ...
in the
Kimberley region. It is the site of the Catholic
Pallottine
The Pallottines officially named the Society of the Catholic Apostolate ( la, Societas Apostolatus Catholici), abbreviated SAC is a Society of Apostolic Life of Pontifical Right for men in the Roman Catholic Church, founded in 1835 by the Roman C ...
''La Grange Mission'',
and the Aboriginal community of
Bidyadanga.
It was the location of the
La Grange massacre and expedition in 1865.
See also
*
Explorers' Monument
References
Further reading
* Zucker, Margaret.(2005) ''From patrons to partners and the separated children of the Kimberley : a history of the Catholic Church in the Kimberley, WA'' Fremantle, W.A. : University of Notre Dame Australia Press.
Kimberley (Western Australia)
Bays of Western Australia
Australian Aboriginal missions
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