Flying Foam Passage is a northsouth passage between Angel Island and Dolphin Island in the Dampier Archipelago, near Dampier, Western Australia.
The passage is named after the 33-ton coastal schooner Flying Foam,Dickson, Rod (1994) Ships registered in Western Australia from 1856 : their details, their owners and their fate Fremantle, W.A : Western Australian Maritime Museum Report (Western Australian Maritime Museum. Dept. of Maritime Archaeology); no. 80. v. 1 1856-1884 which disappeared without trace in March 1872.Murray, Ian, with Marion Hercock (2008) Where on the coast is that? Carlisle, W.A. : Hesperian Press. . page 107 Its name is, however, most prominently associated with the 1868 massacre of indigenous Australians in the area.
The passage is a significant site of vessels lost.A sample of vessels from the 1890s: http://henrietta.liswa.wa.gov.au/record=b1790826~S2 ; http://henrietta.liswa.wa.gov.au/record=b1796464~S2 ; http://henrietta.liswa.wa.gov.au/record=b1796546~S2 ; http://henrietta.liswa.wa.gov.au/record=b1815269~S2 ; http://henrietta.liswa.wa.gov.au/record=b1815312~S2; http://henrietta.liswa.wa.gov.au/record=b1815690~S2
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