Settlement of Albany
.The port city of Albany and the final destination of Edward John Eyre (1841) was first settled on the 26 of December 1826 and is the oldest permanently settled town in Western Australia.
The settlement of Albany was a strategic military outpost to signify to the French that "the whole of New Holland is subject to His Britannic Majesty's Government, and that orders have been given for the Establishment at King George's Sound of a Settlement for the reception of Criminals accourdingly"
Major Edmund Lockyer was placed in command by Govenor Darling to establish a suitable settlement. By 30 December twenty troops and twenty-three prisoners were disembarked from the HM brig Amity to assist in establishing settlement with only six months provisions.
Local Indigenous People of Albany, the Noongar Indigenous people made use of Albany during the summer months for fishing and other activates. The local Noongar people had good relationships established earlier between local Aboriginal groups of the area and European explores as a result of Lockyer's actions. He rescued Aboriginal women form offshore islands, who had been kidnapped by sealers operating in the Great Australian Bight and arrested the culprits to stand trial. The local Noongar showed their gratitude by organising a corroboree in his honour.
an Aboriginal, Mokare developed a close relationship with early settlers and shared his knowledge of the land, its natural resources and rich cultural practices of his people. Like many Noongars of the area he died of European disease, which he had no natural resistance to. Significant archaeologists sites include 19000 yea old Kalgan hall site and the stone fish at the northern end of oyster harbour
The settlement of Albany was a strategic military outpost to signify to the French that "the whole of New Holland is subject to His Britannic Majesty's Government, and that orders have been given for the Establishment at King George's Sound of a Settlement for the reception of Criminals accourdingly"
Major Edmund Lockyer was placed in command by Govenor Darling to establish a suitable settlement. By 30 December twenty troops and twenty-three prisoners were disembarked from the HM brig Amity to assist in establishing settlement with only six months provisions.
Local Indigenous People of Albany, the Noongar Indigenous people made use of Albany during the summer months for fishing and other activates. The local Noongar people had good relationships established earlier between local Aboriginal groups of the area and European explores as a result of Lockyer's actions. He rescued Aboriginal women form offshore islands, who had been kidnapped by sealers operating in the Great Australian Bight and arrested the culprits to stand trial. The local Noongar showed their gratitude by organising a corroboree in his honour.
an Aboriginal, Mokare developed a close relationship with early settlers and shared his knowledge of the land, its natural resources and rich cultural practices of his people. Like many Noongars of the area he died of European disease, which he had no natural resistance to. Significant archaeologists sites include 19000 yea old Kalgan hall site and the stone fish at the northern end of oyster harbour