Historically it is also sometimes called York Harbour, a name given by James Webb in 1760 when he claimed the harbour for the English.
[2] It was surveyed by James Cook in 1763, during his survey of the Strait of Belle Isle aboard HMS Grenville.
[3] In August 1766 Joseph Banks arrived in Chateau Bay as a part of a partially scientific journey to study and collect the plants and animals.
[4] One of the specimens collected there was the now extinct great auk.
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