Yampi Sound

The traditional owners of the areas around the sound are the Umiida people. The sound was visited in March 1838 by Lieutenant John Lort Stokes of HMS Beagle, who named Yampee Point, Yampee being the local Aboriginal people's word for fresh water. The sound is off the Yampi Peninsula, which is bounded by King Sound to the south, Collier Bay to the north, and the Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges inland on the north-eastern side. During World War II, several raids were launched against the Japanese forces in Borneo and Java using Catalina flying boats by the Royal Australian Air Force from Cockatoo Island in Yampi Sound. ==Description==

Yampi Sound is located between King Sound and Collier Bay. equivalent to in . The Australian Defence Force has maintained a training facility at Yampi Sound since the 1970s. == References ==