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53 unusual facts about Perth


1993 Asian Baseball Championship

The tournament was held in Perth, Australia for the second and likely last time; Australia has not participated in the tournament since joining the Baseball Confederation of Oceania.

ABC Great Southern

When local programs are not broadcast the station is a relay of ABC South Coast and 720 ABC Perth.

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

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

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.

Moving in an uphill direction away from the Swan River, it passes alongside the Supreme Court Gardens and the Stirling Gardens.

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

Brian Muggleton

The son of Merv Muggleton, who had played baseball for Sturt and South Australia, Muggleton was born in Adelaide, South Australia, but moved with his family to Perth, Western Australia, in 1949, after his father was transferred.

Bridge of Tilt

The A9 runs past the River Garry to the south of Bridge of Tilt, and connects the village with Newtonmore and Inverness in the north and Pitlochry, Perth and Stirling in the south.

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

Claremont railway station, Perth in Claremont, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Claremont railway station, Perth

Scotch College is primarily served by Swanbourne station.

Douglas Wiseman

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

Drew McPherson

Drew William McPherson was born on December 25, 1976 in Perth, Ontario, Canada.

Frank Counsell

He returned to Adelaide, where for a year or so he worked for Edward Davies and Cavanagh, then moved to Perth, where he gained more eperience with railway stations, then returned to South Australia where his interstate experience gained him design work on the Adelaide Railway Station.

George Oywello

In the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia, Oywello won a gold medal in the heavyweight competition beating New Zealander, Bill Kini in the final.

Glenn Trimble

Trimble played in 57 Sheffield Shield and other first-class matches for Queensland between 1982–83 and 1989–90 and two One Day International World Series Cup matches in Perth and Adelaide against New Zealand in 1985–86 under Allan Border.

Graham Stewart

Graham Stewart (born 1975 in Perth, Scotland) is a Scottish broadcaster who currently presents The Business on BBC Radio Scotland.

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.

Justin Kemp

He went on the South African tour of Australia where he made a rare appearance in a Test Match when he and Jacques Rudolph formed a partnership that rescued a draw for South Africa at Perth.

Ken MacLeay

In 2001, MacLeay was named as a life member of the WACA Ground in Perth for his contributions to cricket.

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.

Lorne Argyle Campbell

He was born in Perth, Ontario, the son of John G. Campbell and Helen Gray Murdoch, and was educated at Perth Collegiate.

Love in Perth

Starring Gita Gutawa, Derby Romero, Petra Sihombing, and Michella Putri, it tells the story of Lola, an Indonesian student studying in Perth, Australia, who falls in love with another Indonesian student, Dhani.

Lola (Gita Gutawa), a shy 16-year-old Indonesian girl, receives a scholarship to study at a famous high school in Perth.

Nicholas Tritton

Nicholas "Nick" Tritton (born July 20, 1984 in Perth, Ontario) is a male judoka from Canada, who won the bronze medal in the men's lightweight division (– 73 kg) at the 2007 Pan American Games, alongside Cuba's Ronald Girones.

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.

Perth, New York

Mike Tyson, boxer, was a one-time resident of the Tryon School for Boys in the town.

Robert P. Aitken (1819–1873), Michigan State Representative and Civil War veteran

Perth, Tasmania

Federal Lyons MHR Eric Hutchinson also has an office in the town.

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

St Georges Terrace was named after St George's Cathedral.

The level of St Georges Terrace is in effect at the top of a ridge, where the short roads that descend southerly towards Perth Water all provide views of the Swan River, including Barrack Street, Sherwood Court, Howard Street, William Street, Mill Street, and Spring Street.

The main streetscape between Barrack Street and William Street in the 1930s and 1940s constituted considerable uniformity of design and building height, by the late 1970s removal of significant older buildings for taller more modern buildings changed this permanently.

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.

Tarcoola railway station

The station has two triangles, one for turning locomotives, and a larger one that gives direct access from the Darwin line to the Perth line.

Tobique River

The river rises from Nictau Lake in Mount Carleton Provincial Park and flows for 148 kilometres to its confluence with the Saint John River near Perth-Andover.

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.

Tree Martin

This is most common in western Australia, where breeding occurs even in large cities like Adelaide and Perth.

Victoria Avenue, Perth

On the corner of Victoria Avenue and St Georges Terrace, a school named Christian Brothers College existed, it was located at that site until 1961 when it was demolished.

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

Vincent O'Brien

O'Brien and his wife latterly spent half of each year in her home town of Perth, Australia and the remainder of the year in Ireland.

West Coast University – Panama

The “West Coast Institute of Management & Technology (WCIMT)” was established in 1996 at Perth by a Christian family “S. Lloyd Family Trust” to provide vocational and Professional Educational Services at National and International Levels under a Christian mission and vision of preaching, teaching and Social work.It is Autonomous Educational Institute and Vocational Training School.

William E. Nelson

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

William Street, Perth

This is followed by Murray and Hay streets, which are pedestrian malls to the east; and then St Georges Terrace, which is a through-route for vehicular traffic.

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.

Adam Said Galore

Adam Said Galore were formed in 1994, by Michael Lake on guitar, Matt Maguire on drums, Andrew Ryan on guitar and lead vocals, and Simon Struthers on bass guitar, in the Perth suburb of Greenwood.

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.

Air data inertial reference unit

On 1 August 2005 a serious incident involving Malaysia Airlines Flight 124, occurred when a Boeing 777-2H6ER (9M-MRG) flying from Perth to Kuala Lumpur also involved an ADIRU fault resulting in uncommanded manoeuvres by the aircraft acting on false indications.

American Ship Hull numbers

For example the Perth class guided missile destroyers that were built for the Royal Australian Navy in Bay City, Michigan were given the hull numbers DDG-25, DDG-26, and DDG-27; but these hull numbers were not assigned to any American destroyers after the Australian Navy had changed those to its own identification numbers.

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.

Barbara Jefferis Award

The Seamstress, Geraldine Wooller, University of Western Australia Press, Perth, ISBN 978-1-920694-93-7

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.

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.

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.

Clarissa House

She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Theatre Arts degree from Perth's Curtin University (formerly the Western Australian Institute of Technology)

Driver Group

Driver Group today operates charters originating in Melbourne and operating to destinations around the country, Great Sights day tours in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide and Gray Line Australia day tours in Melbourne, Perth, Cairns, Adelaide, Darwin, Alice Springs and Tasmania.

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.

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.

Graham Ibbeson

He has created bronze sculptures in towns and cities across Britain including Leeds, Cardiff, Dover, Barnsley, Doncaster, Northampton, Chesterfield, Middlesbrough, Perth, Otley and Rugby.

GWN7

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

Hughesdale, Victoria

Sacred Heart Girls' College was opened in 1957 by the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, who came from the convent in Highgate, Perth, Western Australia.

James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth

The City of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, which sits on the waterfront facing Staten Island, New York, and which was once a port city in its own right, is named in his honor — a statue of Lord Perth stands in front of City Hall (the "Amboy" comes from an Algonquian word meaning "valley").

Jammer keyboard

It was coined by Jim Plamondon, founder of Thumtronics, and first used when the "Thummer(tm)-brand jammer" was publicly announced on December 15, 2005, in Perth, Western Australia.

Jim Fenlon

Fenlon joined AFC Wimbledon Under–16s after returning to England from Australia, where he lived for six years, playing association football for Western Australia state and Stirling Lions, a club in Perth that compete in the West State League, one stage lower than the Australian A–League.

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 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.

Jon Stratton

Jonathon, or Jonathan, (Jon) Stratton is an Australian academic currently serving as Professor of Cultural Studies at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia.

Karnivool

In October 2001, the band were chosen to support the Rollins Band but, due to the Ansett collapse, Henry Rollins and his band were forced to cancel their Perth show.

Kwinana Freeway

In 1999, the state government announced that a two way bus transitway would be built in the Kwinana Freeway median, to link Perth's Esplanade Busport with the Murdoch station at South Street.

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.

Louis Kahan

After travelling across the United States he moved to Perth, Western Australia to join his family, who had emigrated to Australia before the war.

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.

Meikleour Beech Hedges

The Meikleour Beech Hedge(s) (European Beech = Fagus sylvatica), located near Meikleour, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, alongside the A93 Perth-Blairgowrie Road, was planted in the autumn of 1745 by Jean Mercer and her husband, Robert Murray Nairne on the Marquess of Lansdowne's Meikleour estate.

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 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.

Perth-Andover

Much of Perth was originally part of the territory of the Tobique First Nation, whose reserve was established in 1801, at the band's request.

Preston Point

It is located in the Perth suburb of East Fremantle, about 12 km south west of the city centre.

Regan Tamanui

The show also included Godfrey Blow who had followed Tamanui's lead and founded a Perth Stuckists group.

Roman Catholic Church Group, Toodyay

On 3 December 1971 Lancelot Goody, Archbishop of Perth, wrote to the Sisters of Mercy in Toodyay advising of St Aloysius Convent School's imminent closure.

Royal Perth Hospital

Several well-known practitioners and medical researchers have worked at Royal Perth Hospital over the years, including Dr Fiona Wood, winner of the 2005 Australian of the Year Award, and Professor Barry Marshall and Dr Robin Warren, winners of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology.

Ryan Mitchell

At the 1998 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Mitchell finished fifth in the 200m breaststroke and then won silver at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, behind fellow Australian Simon Cowley, who won both breaststroke events.

Silverton Tramway

After the completion of the Trans-Australian Railway, the Silverton Tramway and the South Australian line to Port Pirie was a missing link in an unbroken Sydney to Perth rail journey (Perth to Kalgoorlie, Western Australia was the other).

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.

Starcom IP Asia

Starcom IP Asia consists of 17 countries and 29 offices, with locations in Australia (Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast, Brisbane) Bangalore, Bangladesh, China (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong), India (New Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai), Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand (Auckland, Wellington), Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Trevor Bickle

In the 1962 Commonwealth Games in Perth at Perry Lakes Stadium, he won the gold medal with a vault of 4.41 m (13 feet 9 inches).

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.