Woodman Point Quarantine Station

Woodman Point (formerly Woodman's Point) is part of the territory of the Belliar Group of the Bibbulman people, and known to them as Nyyerbup.
Its European naming was declared in 1827 by Captain James Stirling after the Purser of the HMS Success.
In 1829, Captain Stirling granted Thomas Peel, 250,000 acres of land, including land on the Woodman Point peninsula. Although twenty acres of that peninsula was reserved for a quarantine station when the 500 hectare town site of Clarence was gazetted in 1836. Clarence took its name from Thomas Peel's settlement named Clarence, which was established behind Woodman Point in 1829, and deserted in 1830.
It was then when a plan of proposed boundaries for Thomas Peel's townsite of Clarence, and signed by Captain James Stirling on the 7th March 1836, designates Woodman Point's isolated tip as a quarantine station, however forty years will pass before it will be officially gazetted for that purpose.
Western Australia's first quarantine law was proclaimed in 1836 and this being influenced by the United Kingdom's cholera epidemic that occurred between 1832 and 1866, with the Town of Clarence being gazetted in 1836 and this included a quarantine station located on Woodman Point's peninsula.

Compiled by Earle Seubert