In 1832 land in the vicinity of Geographe Bay was selected by English migrants the Bussells, the Molloys, the Chapmans, George Layman and the Turners. Queen Street approximately follows the track from the beach, where the Bussell party arrived from Augusta, to the banks of the Vasse River. ‘The Vasse’ town site, later to become Busselton, was originally surveyed in 1839.