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37 unusual facts about Perth


ABC Great Southern

It was originally built solely as a retransmission facility, relaying 6WF from Perth to the greater southwest area of the state.

Adam Voges

From Perth, Western Australia, Voges excelled at cricket from an early age, attending the Western Australian Institute of Sport and playing both Test and ODI matches for the Australian under-19 cricket team.

Amanda Muggleton

Out of Marvellous Party! came Darling It's Noel, produced by International Concert Attractions and directed by Rodney Fisher at the Sydney Opera House in May 2004 and at His Majesty's Theatre, Perth in June 2004.

Barrack Street

Barrack Street is one of two major cross-streets in the central business district of Perth, Western Australia.

The section between Murray Street and Wellington Street saw a minor urban renewal with Barrack Plaza officially opening on 12 July 2006.

William Street, one block over to the west, carries the route southbound.

The street terminates at Wellington Street continuing as Beaufort Street on and over the Barrack Street Bridge which crosses the Midland and Armadale railway lines.

Together with St Georges Terrace, Wellington Street and William Street it defines the boundary of the main shopping precinct of the central city.

Bennelongia

Bennelongia gwelupensis Martens et al., 2012 – Western Australia, Perth, southwest coast

Charles Riley

With many difficulties Guildford Grammar School was taken over by the Church and firmly established, but frequently came into conflict with Percy Henn, the school headmaster.

Claremont railway station, Perth

Scotch College is primarily served by Swanbourne station.

Colin Milburn

Milburn returned to Perth, where he enjoyed a prolific season for Western Australia.

Demography of Scotland

Around 70% of the country's population live in the Central Lowlands — region stretching in a northeast-southwest orientation between the major cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and including major settlements such as Paisley, Stirling, Falkirk, Perth and Dundee.

Douglas Wiseman

Wiseman was also a public school board chair, and a trustee of St. Paul's United Church in Perth, Ontario.

Gita Gutawa

She voiced a character for the animated Meraih Mimpi, and made her feature film debut in 2010's Love in Perth.

Glenn Maxwell

On 3 February in the 2nd ODI against West Indies at Perth, he scored a duck, but then took 4/63 with the ball to support Mitchell Starc (5/32) and bowl out the visitors for 212 in 38.1 overs.

Greg Blewett

He followed that with a century in the WACA Ground in Perth during his second match and scored a century at Edgbaston in England in 1997 and scoring three centuries in his first three Ashes Test series.

Howlett and Bailey Architects

Howlett and Bailey Architects was founded by Jeffrey Howlett and Donald Bailey in 1960, in Perth, Western Australia.

James Alipius Goold

In order to expand Catholic education, in 1857 Bishop Goold succeeded in bringing the Mercy Sisters from Perth into the diocese.

John Balmer

Partnered by a fellow officer, he set a cross-country record of 65 hours and 10 minutes travelling from Perth, Western Australia, to Melbourne in December 1936.

Leonidas Bott

Born in Adelaide, Bott was educated at Perth Boys' School and Christian Brothers' College, and later received a scholarship to study at the University of Adelaide.

Michael Potter

Potter retired at the end of the 1993 season but signed to play for one of the four new teams introduced for the 1995 season, the Western Reds, going on to play 21 games for the Perth based team before retiring for good at the end of the 1996 ARL season.

Nathan Coulter-Nile

From Perth, Western Australia, Coulter-Nile attended Aquinas College, and represented the state under-17 and under-19 teams, later going on to play three One Day International (ODI) matches for the Australian national under-19 team.

National Campus Band Competition

Since then, the National final has travelled around the country (Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Lismore, Adelaide and Wollongong) and the competition has attracted more and more bands, as well as receiving great kudos from the music industry.

Ommatoiulus moreleti

Since being introduced to Port Lincoln, South Australia in 1953, the millipede has spread to other parts of South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, Australian Capital Territory, southern New South Wales and Western Australia around Perth

Perth-Andover

In 1894 the Tobique Valley Railway constructed a line from a junction with the CPR at Perth to Plaster Rock; it was leased by CPR in 1897.

Russell Dumas

A bronze plaque with Dumas's name was laid in the footpath of St Georges Terrace, Perth as part of the WAY 1979 celebrations to commemorate 150 notable figures in Western Australia's history.

St Georges Terrace

Some of these houses such as The Deanery remain, however the majority of these were demolished in the 1960s.

Suta suta

In Victoria the curl snake occurs only in the north and central regions and in Perth it is restricted to the far north eastern boundaries.

Tom Moody

Schooled at Guildford Grammar School in Perth, where his father was headmaster, he exhibited great talent for athletics (particularly the high jump) and Australian rules football but truly excelled at cricket being selected to train with the 1st XI side (usually made up of year twelve students) at just thirteen, and play with them the following year.

Varekai

Later that year, Varekai finished its Australian tour in Perth, and moved on to its first European tour.

Victoria Avenue, Perth

At the northern end of Victoria Avenue is Victoria Square, enclosing St Mary's Cathedral.

Wellington Street, Perth

Wellington Street is part of State Route 65, which continues south from the street's eastern end to Riverside Drive, near The Causeway, and from the western end of the street to West Coast Highway south of City Beach.

Wellington Street continues into West Perth, past Harbour Town and commercial properties, until it ends at an intersection with Thomas Street and Roberts Road, near Princess Margaret Hospital.

William E. Nelson

William E. Nelson (born February 18, 1941) was an environmental wax researcher from Perth, Ontario, Canada.

William Street, Perth

William Street began as a two-way street, and during the era of trams in Perth, there were tramline along it.

William Street is a suburban distributor and one of two major cross-streets in the CBD of Perth, Western Australia.


1987 Defender Selection Series

The third syndicate was a well funded group known as Taskforce '87 and headed by Perth businessman Kevin Parry. Taskforce '87 built three boats, Kookaburra (KA-11), Kookaburra II (KA-12) skippered by Peter Gilmour and Kookaburra III (KA-15) skippered by Iain Murray.

2012 Australian Baseball League postseason

The Perth Heat were the first team to clinch a postseason position when they defeated the Brisbane Bandits in Perth on 8 January, and then clinched a first place finish in their next game when they defeated the Canberra Cavalry in Canberra on 12 January.

Adam Said Galore

Simon Struthers has also produced a number of other records for Perth bands and musicians, including Suburban Kid for Kevin Mitchell (aka Bob Evans) in 2003, the Tucker B's Kill Devil Hills, Apricot Rail, Umpire and Mukaizake.

Amuza

Amuza Motors Pty Ltd of Perth is an Australian automotive company which exhibited its Ford Falcon-based stretch limo at the 2003 Tokyo Auto Salon.

Andrew Lovett

Lovett played for the Northern Knights in the TAC Cup and North Heidelberg in the Northern Football League before relocating to Perth to play for East Perth in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), where he hoped he could be drafted into the AFL.

Ben Folds and WASO Live in Perth

Filmed over two nights on March 12 & 13, 2005 at Kings Park and Botanical Gardens in Perth, Australia - a venue Folds jokingly refers to as a "luminous green petri dish" - the DVD offers 14 songs from the three major Ben Folds Five albums and Folds' debut solo album Rockin' the Suburbs.

Betty Judge

In the national championships, at Perth in 1940, Judge won the 880-yd event and was placed second in the 440-yd sprint.

Botany 2000

Neville Marchant, Director of the Western Australian Herbarium in Perth, has been involved in the Botany 2000-Asia programme since its inception.

Brad Hardie

After initially living in Perth, Hardie now lives in Melbourne and works exclusively for 882 6PR.

Brian Luckhurst

He made 131 in the Second Test at Perth in its inaugural Test match, and so became the first batsman to make a Test century at the WACA.

Carlingford, New Brunswick

It is on the International Boundary between Maine and New Brunswick, midway between Perth-Andover and Fort Fairfield.

Carrier Air Wing Two

Port calls during the past three deployments have included stops in Sydney and Perth, Western Australia, Manama (Bahrain), Jebel Ali (United Arab Emirates), Singapore, Kelang (Malaysia), Hong Kong (China), Pusan (Korea), Yokosuka (Japan), and Hawaii.

Chicken Treat

During the first season of the reality TV series Big Brother, adverts replicated the 'bum dance' of Perth contestant Sara-Marie Fedele.

Cundall Johnston and Partners

Founded in Newcastle and Edinburgh, Cundall now has United Kingdom offices in London, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester, with Australian offices in Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and Adelaide plus offices in Dubai, Doha, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Cyprus in Paphos and Nicosia, Madrid, Cluj-Napoca and Bucharest in Romania.

Duncraig, Western Australia

The only Gilbert and Sullivan performer with a street named after him is Bernard Manning (1888–1961), a performer with the J. C. Williamson company and founder of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Western Australia in Perth.

Ed Joyce

He totalled 288 runs in nine matches at an average of 32.00, including his maiden half-century in the losing run-chase against New Zealand at Perth.

Edward Boddington

Edward Robert Boddington was born 29 April 1862 in Wakefield and died 4 March 1897 in Perth, Western Australia.

Ernie Hannigan

He then spent one season with Eastern Hong Kong before emigrating to Perth, Western Australia joining Stirling City.

Gary van Egmond

The FFA charged Van Egmond with bringing the game into disrepute for a furious on-field outburst with Perth Glory player, Adrian Trinidad, in round 11.

GWN7

Seven News Perth and Today Tonight are aired live across the network direct from Perth.

Hartley Jackson

In 2005, Hartley Jackson made his first trip to the USA which was sponsored by Rick Sanders, a founder of EPW in Perth, and took Mikey Nicholls with him Hartley and Mikey lived and trained at the NJPW Dojo located in Los Angeles, California where they trained pro wresting with Kendo Kashin, Rocky Romero, Antonio Inoki and Terry Taylor and also trained in MMA which was coached by UFC referee Herb Dean.

Hélène Joy

Joy was born and raised in Australia, studying at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth.

High Wycombe, Western Australia

Routes 296 and 299 provide the primary service for High Wycombe, operating to Esplanade Busport in the Perth CBD via Great Eastern Highway, or to Kalamunda bus station in Kalamunda, a regional centre of the Perth Hills.

History of Perth, Scotland

The restoration of Charles II was not without incident, and with the Act of Settlement came the Jacobite Risings, to which Perth was supportive.

Jeff Martin 777

Following the disbanding of his group The Tea Party in 2005, Canadian singer-songwriter Jeff Martin lived for sometime in Ireland before settling in Perth.

Jin Kab-yong

In February 1993, while attending Busan High School in Busan, South Korea, Jin was selected for the South Korea national baseball team as a high schooler to compete in the 17th Asian Baseball Championship in Perth, Australia.

John Burns Hynd

Educated at St Ninian's Episcopal School and Caledonian Road School, Perth, he left school at 14 and became a Railway Clerk in the District Office of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, Perth, where he worked until 1925.

John Row

He was the third surviving son of John Row (1525?–1580), a Scottish reformer, and Margaret Beaton of Balfour; he was born at Perth about the end of December 1568, and baptised on 6 January 1569.

John Shirlow

He is represented at the British Museum, the national galleries of Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Perth, and at Stockholm, Bendigo, Geelong and Castlemaine.

Joseph Nunan

He also built a convent in Perth for the Sisters of Mercy, and a store and house for Walter Padbury near his flour mill in Guildford.

Kryptonics

They were contemporaries of celebrated Perth bands, The Stems, The Triffids & The Bamboos and were a popular local band of that time.

Ladislav Mucina

He completed post-doctoral studies at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, and later served as visiting fellow and professor in Trieste, Camerino, Perugia, and Rome, all in Italy, Uppsala in Sweden, Brno in the Czech Republic, Perth in Australia and Pretoria and Stellenbosch, both in South Africa.

Leake family tree

Members of the family were included in the Six hungry families who inter-married and sustained a significant political power in nineteenth century Perth.

Louis Buvelot

He is represented in the galleries at Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth and Castlemaine, and his bust by Bertram Mackennal and a portrait in oils by J. C. Waite are also in the Melbourne gallery.

Malcolm Clark

At the age of 23 Malcolm was offered to become a member of up and coming Perth band The Sleepy Jackson.

Max Cramer

This included the Zeewijk, wrecked in the Pelsaert Group of the Houtman Abrolhos in 1727, which he dived on earlier in 1963, and the Zuytdorp which came to grief when it struck the Zuytdorp Cliffs, 560 kilometres north of Perth, in 1712.

Natalie Medhurst

In 2014, Medhurst will be moving to Perth to play for the West Coast Fever, reuniting with her former Australian coach Norma Plummer, shifting with Firebirds wing attack Chelsea Pitman, and forging stronger links with Australian goal shooter Caitlin Bassett.

Nugan Hand Bank

In April 1983 a Perth businessman, Murray Quartermaine, testified to the Stewart Royal Commission on drugs that Hand was living in Pretoria, South Africa under the name of "Hahn".

OTC Satellite Earth Station Carnarvon

The ‘sugar scoop’ became famous again on 21 July 1969, the day of the Apollo 11 moon landing, relaying Neil Armstrong's first steps on the Moon from NASA's Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station, Canberra, to Perth's TV audience via Moree earth station - the first live telecast into Western Australia.

Perth Central Area Transit

The Yellow CAT runs between East Perth, Perth and West Perth areas along Wellington Street, including Wellington Street Bus Station, Perth Train Station and Claisebrook Train Station.

Perth Modern School

Perth Modern embraced a new motto, Savoir C’est Pouvoir (Knowledge is Power), and the Sphinx, representing knowledge and wisdom, was adopted as the school emblem.

Richard Weller

He is also identified as a major proponent for the Elizabeth Quay project in Perth, Western Australia, and this can be found in the contents of Boomtown where he uses quotes from various supporters and detractors of the project.

Robert Bropho

During the 1930s Bropho, his parents and eleven siblings camped in a swamp at Swanbourne in the western suburbs of Perth.

SCEA

Swan Christian Education Association owns and operates schools in Perth, Western Australia

St. Johnstone F.C. in European football

A Frazer Wright goal in Trondheim, the home city of Rosenborg, gave the Perth club a chance of proceeding to the next round and, despite an early goal by Rosenborg in the home leg at McDiarmid Park, a Stevie May goal in front of 7,850 supporters (almost all behind the home club) was enough for St. Johnstone to earn a place in the third qualifying round against FC Minsk of Belarus.

Thornlie, Western Australia

Crestwood was based on the ideas of Paul Ritter, Perth's first and somewhat controversial city planner.

Village Kid

The E.P. sold out of the print run of 1,000 copies, however, before the second E.P. could be completed, vocalist Aaron Malone left the band to be replaced with Jeremy Gregory, who had recently returned to Perth from Los Angeles where he was signed to Warner Bros. Records.

Wellington Street, Perth

The area of the street facing the Perth railway station to the north, Forrest Place to the south, and bound by Barrack Street to the east, and William Street to the west, was effectively the transport hub of Perth from the 1880s when the first railway station was built, until the 1960s when public transport and private car usage changed significantly in Perth.