Lameroo Beach
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A small beach off the Esplanade in central Darwin, Lameroo Beach takes its name from a corrupted reading of Damoe-Ra, a Larrakia site nearby whose name means eye or spring. Larrakia people paddled across from the Cox Peninsula to gather…
Timeline
- 1922-1974
Mayor J. F. Burton opened the Lameroo Baths on the beach on 14 May 1922 at a cost of 2,000 pounds. They were Darwin's only swimming pool until private pools began appearing in 1955, and Cyclone Tracy destroyed them completely in 1974.
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