On January 27th, 1923 Charles Topsail Robertson age 13 was fatally bitten by a shark. He was swimming just five miles from the river mouth on the Swan River whena shark bit the back of his thigh, killing him.

V.M. Coppleson.W1.(1933); V.M. Coppleson (1958), pp.111 & 241; A. Sharpe, p.129