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3 unusual facts about Leichhardt


APIA Leichhardt Tigers FC

APIA Leichhardt Tigers Football Club, also known simply as APIA, is a semi-professional soccer club based in the suburb of Leichhardt in Sydney, Australia.

Genevieve Lemon

Lemon began her career with the Leichhardt-based amateur theater company, The Rocks Players.

Robert Leslie Brown

Brown was born into a working-class family in the Sydney suburb of Leichhardt.


Cheesewood

Nauclea orientalis (Leichhardt tree, Yellow Cheesewood, Canary Cheesewood)

Herbert Bolt

Williams, Terry (2008) Through Blue Eyes: A Photographic History of Newtown RLFC, Newtown RLFC, Leichhardt

Nourlangie Rock

Together they produced Leichhardt's grasshopper (Petasida ephippigera) Al-yurr, a species of blue and orange grasshopper which in Aboriginal mythology are believed to be the lightning spirit's children.

Petersham, New South Wales

Mosquito HR576 RAF (UK) disintegrated over the inner western Sydney suburbs of Leichhardt and Petersham on 2 May 1945 during an air test flight.

Port Essington

The New South Wales government had hoped to establish a direct line of communication with Asia, India and the Pacific, and supported Leichhardt's journey, which successfully charted an overland route between Moreton Bay (now Brisbane) and Port Essington.

Thelma Forshaw

Forshaw was educated at St Michael's Catholic Primary School in Stanmore and St Fiacre's Primary School in Leichardt.

William Fulton

Bill Fulton (1909–1988), Australian Labor politician, Representative for Leichhardt (1958–1975)

Youanmi, Western Australia

The first Europeans to visit the Youanmi area were the Robert Austin party in 1854, followed by the Forrest Expedition in 1869, which passed through in search of Leichhardt and his party.


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