There Were Three Ships

History

From Clunes to the Kimberley


In November 1864, three heavily laden ships sailed from Melbourne and its old sea port of Williamstown,bound for the land of promise


They carried 120 men, women and children from gold mining and farming communities and thousands of head of livestock. Their destination, an isolated bay in the unexplored territory of far north western Australia


But Utopia became a hell


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