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"Slip into Broometime" is the well-worn local aphorism that captures the tropical charm of BROOME , a popular and unexpectedly classy town of fourteen thousand people, which clings to a peninsula hanging over Roebuck Bay. William Dampier, the English buccaneer-explorer, passed the area in 1699 while on the run from an irate Spanish flotilla, and nearly two hundred years later the Djuleun Aborigines repelled an early fleet of prospective pastoralists. However, the imminent discovery of literally heaps of pearl shell soon led to the " Pearl Rush " of the 1880s and firmly set Broome on the … more »

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