History of Broome

  • pastoralists invading

    people who were investigating this had claimed that the area (where you find gold) was proved 'fruitless', so they used sheep instead.The Aboriginals was annoyed with pastoralists who were invading them.
  • muder

    three members of the pastoralists were murdered.
  • replaced to Pearlers

    the pastoralists was replaced by pearlers - working north from Cossack in the 1870's
  • new towns name

    the towns name was changed to Sir Frederick Napier Broom.
  • diving for Pearls

    people started to go diving for pearls
  • traditional owners

    The traditional owners of Broome are the Yawuru, Djugan and Goolarabooloo people