Pearl Luggers Broome
Pearl Luggers Broome's historic tours touch on the fascinating Broome Pearling Industry and it's gallery showcases incredible jewellery.
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Pearl Luggers Broome
Pearl Luggers Gallery in Broome offers historic guided tours and showcases stunning pearls in their display room. Video by tourvision.com.au
Pearl Luggers Tours
The Pearl Luggers tour run out of Broome Western Australia.
Destination WA - Broome Walking Tours
Broome may be small, but it has some big history. It’s well known for its pearling industry, its involvement in World War 2 and its multicultural heritage. History is all around you here in Broome and what better way to find out more, than a walking tour!
Pearl Luggers
From its early days, Indigenous Australians have been crucial to Broome's long and industrious pearling industry. The Nero siblings from Walminyaru remember a lively, exciting and diverse Broome and say the town's pearling legacy lives on -- a legacy they hope will be treasured. Sundays at 4:30pm on SBS ONE.
Pearling in Broome
A journey to Broome in Western Australia to see the journey of a pearl.
Intombi - 1903 Pearl Lugger Tour
Experience the romance of INTOMBI as you sail the pristine waters of Broome in
Australia's North West. Capture the adventure of bygone pearling days walking the same decks as the divers who sought fortunes over 100 years ago.
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Pearl Diving Broome
Diving for Mother Of Pearl on a pearling lugger.
BROOME Australia, Travel Guide - What To Do: IN ONE DAY (Tour - Self Guided Highlights)
An easy self-guided tour of Broome, Australia. Showing you the best highlights and how to navigate them. Check the links below for further information on how to better plan your journey.
Broome is a beach resort town in western Australia’s Kimberley region. Along its Indian Ocean coastline, the white sands of 22km-long Cable Beach offer a dramatic backdrop for sunset camel rides. At Gantheaume Point nearby, dinosaur tracks are revealed in the beach’s red rocks during low tide. Broome’s historic Chinatown overlooks Roebuck Bay, a jumping off point for cruises to local pearl farms.
Attractions in town include Chinatown’s Sun Pictures, the world’s oldest operating outdoor cinema. Pearl Luggers and the Broome Museum, both by Roebuck Bay, celebrate the town’s long involvement with the pearling industry. Thousands of shorebirds, some flying from as far away as Siberia, can be spotted at the Broome Bird Observatory just outside town. Malcolm Douglas Crocodile Park shelters an array of Australia's wildlife on its 30 hectares, including many crocodiles. To the north, the Dampier Peninsula is home to several Aboriginal communities and sheltered beaches.
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Broome is hot year-round with a humid, wet season Dec–Mar. Dry season (Apr–Nov) is when most visitors and locals flock to 22km-long Cable Beach. In a natural phenomenon nicknamed the Staircase to the Moon, an optical illusion is created at the coincidence of low tide and a full moon, usually on 3 consecutive evenings per month Mar–Nov. The annual Festival of the Pearl (Aug–Sep), also called Shinju Matsuri, celebrates Broome's Japanese pearl-diving heritage.
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Streeter's Jetty to Broome Historical Society & Museum
Broome Historical Society & Museum to Cable Beach
Cable Beach to Adam James Gaffney Memorial
Adam James Gaffney Memorial to Cable Beach
Cable Beach to Gantheaume Point
Historical Broome with Broome museum WA Western Australia
CARAVAN TRIP 2007
Broome is a pearling and tourist town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, 2200 km north of Perth. The year round population is approximately 14,000, growing to around 30,000 during the tourist season.[citation needed] Broome International Airport provides transport to several regional and domestic towns and cities.
History
The first European to visit Broome was William Dampier in 1688 and again in 1699. Many of the coastal features of the area are named by him. In 1879, Charles Harper suggested that the pearling industry could be served by a port closer to the pearling grounds and that Roebuck Bay would be suitable. In 1883, John Forrest selected the site for the town, and it was named after the Governor of Western Australia, Sir Frederick Broome.
In 1889, a telegraph undersea cable was laid from Broome to Singapore, connecting to England. Hence the name Cable Beach given to the landfall site.
Location of BroomeThe town has an interesting history based around the exploits of the men and women who developed the pearling industry, starting with the harvesting of oysters for mother of pearl in the 1880s to the current major cultured pearl farming enterprises. The riches from the pearl beds did not come cheap, and the town's Japanese cemetery is the resting place of more than 900 Japanese divers who lost their lives working in the industry. Many were lost at sea and the exact number of deaths is unknown.
The Japanese were only one of the major ethnic groups who flocked to Broome to work on the luggers or the shore based activities supporting the harvesting of oysters from the waters around Broome. They were specialist divers and, despite political pressure to expel them in support of the White Australia Policy, became an indispensable part of the industry until World War II.
Broome was attacked by Japanese aircraft on March 3, 1942. The air raid killed at least 88 people. Following the end of the war in 1945, the town and its pearling industry gradually recovered from the disruptions of wartime.
The West Australian mining boom of the 1960s, as well as the growth of the tourism industry, also helped Broome develop and diversify. Broome is one of the fastest growing cities in Australia.
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Pearl Luggers Tour
It is often said that Broome’s pearling industry is as rich in culture as it is in pearls. Join us as we reveal the impact pearling has had on Northern Australia and how the melting pot of cultures enticed by the lure of the pearl influenced Broome.
Willie Creek Pearls | Pearl Farm Tour including transfers from Broome | Experience Oz
Get admission to the attraction that put Broome on the map - the Willie Creek Pearl Farm is a great, interactive showcase of these stunning stones.
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Broome, Western Australia
We were in Broome in July 2011. We were about to film the Dampier Peninsula for an upcoming (since released) DVD.
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A History of Australian Pearl Divers
A history of Australian Opal Cutters Pearl Divers including footage and very nice pictures of all types of Pearls
BROOME WESTERN AUSTRALIA WA
CARAVAN TRIP 2007
Broome (17°57′S 122°14′E) is a pearling and tourist town in the Kimberley in the far north of Western Australia. The year round population is approximately 14,000, but that grows to around 30,000 during the tourist season.
Broome is famous for its beautiful Indian Ocean beaches and wonderful dry season climate. Being in the tropics, it has two seasons. The wet season extends from October to March and has hot and humid weather with tropical downpours. The early pearl masters used to send their families to Perth to escape the wet season and beached their luggers to avoid the tropical cyclones that occasionally visit during the wet.
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Broome - WA Trip Ep 4
As I headed further north up the coast of Western Australia I arrived in the familiar town of Broome - the gateway to the amazing and wild Kimberley region in Australia's north west. I ended up spending 6 weeks exploring this awesome place and the surrounding area. I haven't had a job in 5 months and was originally planning on getting work here, but I feel it is time to watch the sun set over a new horizon once again and explore more of the amazing Kimberley region.
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Willie Creek Pearl Farm, Broome, Western Australia
A trip to a Pearl Farm on Australia's Top End We were given a demonstration on how corals are formed and made into jewellery, very informative. We were then brought for a trip on a boat to show where the fishing is done. Lovely trip well worth it. Didn't get a lot of great shots on the old video on this trip. More just captured the ralaxed athmosphere.
Minshull Mechanical, Guy St Broome
Use your dollars to support Broome Business. Broome's 4x4 megastore is Minshull Mechanical, they have all the right gear whatever you're chasing. They even do service and repairs so see Minshull Mechanical
The Pearlers
Made by The National Film Board 1949. Directed by Lee Robinson.
Beautifully filmed in black and white, this classic short film looks at pearling in the late 1940s. It goes on board the boats that work off the coast of Broome, Western Australia, from March to December each year. Crewed mainly by Aboriginal, Malay and Chinese men, they work six days a week from sun up to sun down—replenished occasionally by supply boats that also take away their hauls of pearl shell. The film captures the atmosphere, the detail and the danger involved in the search for shell as the divers in huge metal helmets and layers of clothing under their suits dive two at a time, each with one person tending their airhose and another their lifeline.