Flying Foam Passage is a north south passage between Angel island and Dolphin island in Nickol Bay near Dampier, Western Australia

Dampier, Western Australia

Dampier is a major industrial port in the north-west of Western Australia. The Dampier Port is part of the Dampier Archipelago. The port services petrochemical, salt, iron ore and natural gas export industries. Rio Tinto exports large volumes of iron ore through the port, and in September 2010...

  in the Dampier Archipelago

Dampier Archipelago

The Dampier Archipelago is a group of islands near Dampier, Western Australia. It is named after William Dampier, an English buccaneer and explorer who visited in 1699. Dampier named one of the islands, Rosemary Island.-History:...

The name of the passage is usually associated with the massacre

Flying Foam massacre

The Flying Foam Massacres were a series of confrontations between white settlers and Aboriginal people around Flying Foam Passage on Murujuga , between February and May 1868...

of indigenous Australians in the area, but it is also significant in that it is named after the 33 ton coastal schooner Flying Foam that disappeared without trace in March 1872.

The passage is a significant site of vessels lost