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Champion Bay is a coastal feature north of Geraldton, Western Australia, facing the port and city between and Bluff Point. Champion Bay was named by Lieutenant John Lort Stokes of HMS Beagle, who surveyed the area in April 1840. He named it after the colonial schooner Champion, in which George Fletcher Moore had travelled to the region and first located the bay in January of that year. The locality at the bay was also called Champion Bay. The townsite of Geraldton was surveyed in 1850, named after Captain Charles Fitzgerald, 4th Governor of Western Australia.

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  • Champion Bay is a coastal feature north of Geraldton, Western Australia, facing the port and city between and Bluff Point. Champion Bay was named by Lieutenant John Lort Stokes of HMS Beagle, who surveyed the area in April 1840. He named it after the colonial schooner Champion, in which George Fletcher Moore had travelled to the region and first located the bay in January of that year. The locality at the bay was also called Champion Bay. The townsite of Geraldton was surveyed in 1850, named after Captain Charles Fitzgerald, 4th Governor of Western Australia. The area around Champion Bay was traditionally inhabited by an Aboriginal people who spoke the Nhanhagardi language. (en)
  • Champion Bay is een baai boven Geraldton in de regio Mid West in West-Australië. (nl)
  • Champion Bay är en vik i Australien. Den ligger i delstaten Western Australia, omkring 370 kilometer norr om delstatshuvudstaden Perth. Runt Champion Bay är det mycket glesbefolkat, med 6 invånare per kvadratkilometer. Stäppklimat råder i trakten. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är 360 millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är juni, med i genomsnitt 65 mm nederbörd, och den torraste är februari, med 3 mm nederbörd. (sv)
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  • Champion Bay is een baai boven Geraldton in de regio Mid West in West-Australië. (nl)
  • Champion Bay är en vik i Australien. Den ligger i delstaten Western Australia, omkring 370 kilometer norr om delstatshuvudstaden Perth. Runt Champion Bay är det mycket glesbefolkat, med 6 invånare per kvadratkilometer. Stäppklimat råder i trakten. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är 360 millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är juni, med i genomsnitt 65 mm nederbörd, och den torraste är februari, med 3 mm nederbörd. (sv)
  • Champion Bay is a coastal feature north of Geraldton, Western Australia, facing the port and city between and Bluff Point. Champion Bay was named by Lieutenant John Lort Stokes of HMS Beagle, who surveyed the area in April 1840. He named it after the colonial schooner Champion, in which George Fletcher Moore had travelled to the region and first located the bay in January of that year. The locality at the bay was also called Champion Bay. The townsite of Geraldton was surveyed in 1850, named after Captain Charles Fitzgerald, 4th Governor of Western Australia. (en)
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  • Champion Bay (en)
  • Champion Bay (nl)
  • Champion Bay (sv)
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