Roebuck Bay

Designations
Official nameRoebuck Bay
Designated7 June 1990
Reference no.479[1]
The red sand beaches of northern Roebuck Bay
Astronaut photo of the coastline of Roebuck Bay, 2015. Broome is just offscreen at top right.

Roebuck Bay is a bay on the coast of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Its entrance is bounded in the north by the town of Broome, and in the south by Bush Point and Sandy Point. It is named after HMS Roebuck, the ship captained by William Dampier when he explored the coast of north-western Australia in 1699. The Broome Bird Observatory lies on the northern coast of the bay.

  1. ^ "Roebuck Bay". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.