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2 unusual facts about Broome


Broome, Western Australia

The campaign has received ardent support from public figures such as John Butler, Missy Higgins, Clare Bowditch and former leader of the Australian Greens, Dr Bob Brown.

Tropical cyclone basins

According to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, the most frequently hit portion of Australia is between Exmouth and Broome in Western Australia.


Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green

McAlpine founded his own publishing house in London in the 1960s, and was variously an art dealer, art collector, zookeeper (in Broome, Western Australia), horticulturist, aviculturist, agriculturist, gardener and passionate traveller.

Amasa J. Parker

Parker was elected as a Democrat to the 25th United States Congress, serving from March 4, 1837, to March 3, 1839, as the representative from Delaware and Broome counties.

Animal welfare science

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) was founded in 1824 by a group of twenty-two reformers led by Richard Martin MP (who would thereby earn the nickname Humanity Dick), William Wilberforce MP and the Reverend Arthur Broome.

Antoinette Hatfield Hall

It was designed by Broome, Oringdulph, O'Toole, Rudolf, Boles & Associates and Barton Myers.

Broome County Sheriff's Office

DARE: responsible for community policing and teaching DARE in Broome County.

Dick-a-Dick

Broome, R. (2001) Aboriginal Australians: black responses to white dominance, 1788–2001, third edition, Allen and Unwin:Sydney.

Florence Cole Talbert

In 1919 she recorded three songs for the Broome Special Phonograph label, including "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" and "Villanelle".

George Burarrwanga

Burarrwanga performed at a number of major music festivals, including WOMADelaide, the Melbourne International Arts Festival, the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the indigenous music events Stompen Ground in Broome and the Garma Festival in Gove.

Harvey Broome

In October 1934, while attending a forestry conference in the Smokies, Broome met fellow conservationists Bob Marshall, Benton MacKaye and Bernard Frank, all of whom shared a common interest in the need for an organization to protect America's wilderness areas.

Henry Kitchener, 3rd Earl Kitchener

Major Henry Herbert Kitchener, 3rd Earl Kitchener DL TD (24 February 1919 – 16 December 2011), styled Viscount Broome from 1928 to 1937, was a British peer.

HMQS Gayundah

At Scott Reef, on 25 May, Gayundah boarded and detained two Dutch schooners with illegal catches of trepang (sea cucumber) and trochus shell, and escorted them into Broome on 29 May.

John Broome

Jack Broome (John Egerton Broome, 1901–1985), British Royal Navy officer

Johnny Broome

In 1848 Broome accepted an offer to compete in the Grand National steeplechase at Aintree.

Koolan Island

On 23 December 1984, a single-engined Cessna 210 aircraft, which had just taken off from the island en route to Broome, struck power lines and somersaulted.

Muellerolimon

Most specimens collections have been near the coast between Geraldton and Broome, but there have also been collections from the west coast south of Perth, the south coast in the vicinity of Esperance, and as far inland as Wiluna.

Richard Broome

Richard Broome is a professor of history at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Ross Park Carousel

The carousel was purchased about 1920 and is one of six carousels donated to the citizens of Broome County by George F. Johnson (1857–1948), president of Endicott Johnson Corporation.

Scotty Broome

Broome's current sponsors include CWB, O'Neill, Tige, Smith, Reef, Ology, Napster, Proline

The End League

The series was created by Rick Remender and Mat Broome and focuses on the struggles of the last of the superheroes in a world in which the supervillains have prevailed and enslaved what remains of the world.

Thornhill Francis Broome

William Richard Broome was the owner of the southern portion of the historic Spanish land grant Rancho Guadalasca in Ventura County, which lay from Pitcher Slough to and beyond Sycamore Canyon with minor property breaks.


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