Plaque about Captain James Stirling on the Rockingham Waterfront Pioneer Rotary Walk in Rockingham, Western Australia. It reads, "On 5 March 1827, Captain James Stirling R.N. arrived in H.M.S. Success. After his voyage of exploration, Stirling persuaded the British Colonial Office to endorse the formation of the new colony and included Garden Island (then Ile Buache) as part of this 100,000 acre land allocation."