William Dampier might be a familiar name to many Western Australians - the port town of Dampier is named after him, as is the Dampier Archipelago, and several other landmarks. Who was William Dampier, and what significance did he have for Western Australia? Was he a pirate, an explorer, a naturalist, or a writer? Or all of the above? 

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