Denmark's history and pioneering past The first people to arrive
in the Denmark area were Aborigines, thought to be about 40,000
years ago. has been found, such as fish traps in Wilson Inlet
and carbon from Aboriginal cooking fires identified in the sand
from a cave near Ocean Beach. Thomas Braidwood Wilson, a
Scottish navy surgeon, discovered this area in 1829 when
conducting an expedition from Frederickstown - later to become
Albany. He came across the river here and named it the Denmark
River, after Dr Alexander Denmark RN, his friend and former
tutor at Naval Medical College in England. The town grew around
the banks of the river and was initially known as Denmark River,
but the word ‘river’ was later dropped. The town’s name, you
see, has nothing to do with the country of the same name. The
first European land use was by graziers and, in 1893, the Millar
brothers set up a sawmilling operation on the Denmark River to
meet the needs of the Goldfields which used huge amounts of
timber … and here the story o