Qualla: Buccaneer Archipelago https://qualla.com/buccaneer-archipelago en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:27 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/q/t/p/s/buccaneer-archipelago-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Buccaneer Archipelago https://qualla.com/buccaneer-archipelago Buccaneer Archipelago: Introduction https://qualla.com/buccaneer-archipelago/ Photo credit Natalie Siegel-Brown, CC BY-SA 4.0. William Dampier was an English buccaneer and privateer who became one of history's most accomplished naturalists — a man who sailed with pirates, recorded species unknown to European science, and charted coastlines that others had never seen. In 1688 he crossed these waters off the Kimberley coast and noted them in his journal. In August 1821, the surveyor Philip Parker King formally named the island group after him. The Buccaneer Archipelago: a name that belongs to colonial cartography, imposed on a place whose rocks are two billion years old and whose people have known it for far longer.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/t/p/s/buccaneer-archipelago-wp/qtps-buccaneer-archipelago-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Buccaneer Archipelago: Eight Hundred Islands https://qualla.com/buccaneer-archipelago/ Photo credit NASA/Michala Garrison; U.S. Geological Survey, Public domain. The archipelago covers more than 50 square kilometres at the head of King Sound, packed between King Sound and Collier Bay near Yampi Sound. About 800 islands make up the group, ranging from large rocky masses with high cliffs to tiny formations barely breaking the surface at low...

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/t/p/s/buccaneer-archipelago-wp/qtps-buccaneer-archipelago-eight-hundred-islands.mp3 0:06 2 full Buccaneer Archipelago: The Country and Its People https://qualla.com/buccaneer-archipelago/ Photo credit Natalie Siegel-Brown, CC BY-SA 4.0. Aboriginal Australians have lived in the Kimberley region for thousands of years, and the archipelago has been part of that world throughout. The traditional owners of the islands are the Mayala group, comprising the Yawijibaya and Unggarranggu peoples. The Bardi people hold trad...

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/t/p/s/buccaneer-archipelago-wp/qtps-buccaneer-archipelago-the-country-and-its-people.mp3 0:06 3 full Buccaneer Archipelago: A New Marine Future https://qualla.com/buccaneer-archipelago/ Photo credit Natalie Siegel-Brown, CC BY-SA 4.0. For most of the twentieth century, the archipelago was known primarily for mining and pearling. That is changing. In December 2020, the Western Australian government published indicative joint management plans for a new marine park to be known as the Mayala Marine Park, co-design...

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