Dunsborough

Dunsborough (33° 36' S. 115° 06' E.) is a town on the south-west coast of Western Australia, 254 kilometres south of Perth on the shores of Geographe Bay. The town is named after the nearby Dunn Bay which was named after Captain Richard Dalling Dunn under whom Governor James Stirling had served in the Hibernia and the Armide in 1810-1811. It was gazetted as a Townsite in 1879, but land for a townsite was set aside here in the late 1830's, and there is a recorded whale fishery at "Dunsbro" in 1850. When Dunsborough first appeared on a map in 1839 it was spelt "Dunnsbro" but the extra n appears to have disappeared by 1850, and the spelling of "bro" was amended to "borough" when the name was gazetted in 1879.