Vancouver Peninsula is a locality in
Western Australia. It is located about from
Albany on the other side of
King George Sound. The only residential structure on the Vancouver Peninsula is
Camp Quaranup at Geake Point.
Vancouver Peninsula is part of the traditional settlement area of the
Mineng Aboriginal people. The name refers to
George Vancouver
Captain George Vancouver (22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798) was a British Royal Navy officer best known for his 1791–1795 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of what a ...
, a British officer, and explorer who was the first European to visit the bay in 1791. Originally, Vancouver Peninsula was part of
Frenchman Bay
Frenchman Bay is a bay in Hancock County, Maine, named for Samuel de Champlain, the French explorer who visited the area in 1604.
Frenchman Bay may have been the location of the Jesuit St. Sauveur mission, established in 1613.
In a 1960 book ...
in which was split from in 2000.
Demographics
As of the
2021 Australian census
The 2021 Australian census, simply called the 2021 Census, was the eighteenth national Census of Population and Housing in Australia. The 2021 Census took place on 10 August 2021, and was conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). T ...
, 4 people resided in Vancouver Peninsula,
up from 3 in the .
References
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