Nickol Bay is a bay between the Burrup Peninsula and Dixon Island, on the Pilbara coast in Western Australia.
Once alternatively spelled "Nicol Bay", it was named by John Septimus Roe for a sailor who was lost overboard during an expedition. [1]
F. T. Gregory visited the bay a number of times in 1861. [2] [3]
When the tiny Forlorn Hope sailed around the Bay in June 1865, they landed several times but found no signs of European habitation, [4] yet two years later a settlement named Roebourne had been established and the district's virtues for rearing sheep were being extolled widely. [5] [6]