Lagrange Bay is a coastal locality about southwest of Broome, Western Australia in the Kimberley region. It is the site of the Catholic Pallottine La Grange Mission, and the Aboriginal community of Bidyadanga.

History

Lagrange Bay was named in 1801 by the Baudin expedition to Australia after Italian-French mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange (17361813).

It was the location of the 1865 La Grange expedition, which found three men dead, having been speared and clubbed to death by Aboriginal people, and the subsequent massacre of Aboriginal people by the expedition party.

References

Further reading

• Zucker, Margaret (2005). From patrons to partners and the separated children of the Kimberley : a history of the Catholic Church in the Kimberley, WA. Fremantle, WA: University of Notre Dame Australia Press.