Bathers Beach, Public beach in Fremantle, Australia.
Bathers Beach is a public beach along the Indian Ocean coast near Fremantle Harbour, featuring white sand and clear water. The shore is bounded by rocks and piers that create a sheltered cove feeling within the larger harbor area.
The site housed a whaling operation starting in 1836 that connected to the city through an underground passage. The area later took its name from the Marquis of Anglesea ship, which wrecked during a gale in 1829.
The Whadjuk Noongar know the precinct as Manjaree, a meeting and trading place before European settlement. Aboriginal people camped near the whaling station in the 1830s, and their traces and artefacts were later found on the beach and rocks. The 1837 Whalers Tunnel, cut through limestone in five months using prisoners from the Round House, now carries beachgoers to the sand.
The beach lies below the Round House at the south side of Arthur Head, where the South Mole begins at its northern end. The Whalers Tunnel, cut through limestone in 1837, now gives walkers access from High Street down to the sand. Bones were found along the beach in 1983, most of them on the northern half of the bay.
The Whalers Tunnel was cut through limestone in five months and finished in January 1838, using prisoners from the Round House and overseen by Henry Willey Reveley. It was originally 57 metres long; after the cliffs were cut back sometime after 1880 it measures about 45 metres.
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