Tag: Port Denison

• 25 March 2021

  Foreshore Submission from IDHS

  Port Denison Foreshore Concept Masterplan, Revision G Introduction These comments refer to the strategies and illustrated plans provided in the Concept. Note: The original file is not available for download…

• 22 October 2019

  Port Denison Hall (fmr. Bond Store, 1894)

  A historic chronology, including attempts to save the building from demolition by the Irwin Shire Council on October 10 2019

• 5 June 2019

  Fishing along the Irwin Coast

  Its not unusual to see the retail shops in Perth proudly displaying the sign Dongara Crayfish. Crayfish or the Western Rock Lobster (Panulirus cygnus) range all along Western Australia’s west…

• 7 March 2019

  Convict Tracks of the Victoria District – The Exhibition

  • Convict Transport Around The World
  • Transportation to Eastern and Western Australia
  • Colonising the Victoria District
  • Policing and the Dongara Occurrence Books
  • Irwin District Convict Mapping
  • The Ticket-of-Leave

• 4 March 2019

  A Brief History of the Irwin Districts

  A short chronological history of the Irwin Districts since colonisation

• 1 March 2019

  A Port for the Irwin District

  Situated on Arurine Bay, a townsite was surveyed as “Denison” in 1866, but was generally referred to as “Port Irwin” up to the 1880’s. It was later called “Port Dongara”…