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37 unusual facts about Perth


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.

Australian Super Sedan Championship

New South Wales driver Grenville Anderson (1951-2004), holds the record for most championship wins with four titles to his name - 1975/76 (Rowley Park Speedway in Adelaide, South Australia), 1977/78 (Claremont Speedway in Perth, Western Australia), 1979/80 (Bagot Park in Darwin, Northern Territory), and 1992/93 (Latrobe Speedway in Latrobe, Tasmania).

Barrack Street

Commercial buildings on the opposite side of the street give way to small retail businesses on both sides between Hay Street and Wellington Street.

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

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.

Bennelongia

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

Brian Faehse

Faehse represented South Australia with distinction 19 times between 1948 and 1956 and played in the 1950 (Brisbane), 1953 (Adelaide) and 1956 (Perth) Australian National Football Carnival's.

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.

Claremont railway station

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

Colin Milburn

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

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.

Frank Moores

On July 10, 2005, Moores lost his battle with liver cancer in Perth, Ontario.

Gita Gutawa

The following year, she appeared in her first feature-length film, Love in Perth, in which she played a shy student studying in Perth, Australia.

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.

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.

Ian Millar

He operates "Millar Brooke Farm" near the small town of Perth, Ontario.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 Hungerford

A. G. Hungerford, was an Australian writer, noted for his World War II novel The Ridge and the River, and his short stories that chronicle growing up in South Perth, Western Australia during the Great Depression.

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.

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.

Wellington Street, Perth

In the suburb of Perth, Wellington Street is adjacent to a number of notable buildings and landmarks, including Royal Perth Hospital, Forrest Chase shopping centre, Perth railway station, Wellington Street bus station, and Perth Arena, before reaching the Mitchell Freeway.

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.

Wesley Church is also on the corner of William Street and Hay Street.

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


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 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.

Barbara Jefferis Award

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

Botany 2000

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

Carlingford, New Brunswick

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

Chicken Treat

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

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.

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.

Edna Walling

Her design practice grew and she worked across Australia, in Perth, Hobart, Sydney, and Buderim in Queensland.

Elizabeth Edmondson

Around the time that Elizabeth was starting to prepare for the Paralympics, she was a student at St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls, a member of the West Perth Swimming Club, and an avid surfer.

Ernest Augustus Lee Steere

Lee Steere was descended from one of the prominent so-called six hungry families of Perth, which included his uncle, Sir James George Lee Steere (1830-1903).

Ernest Randell

The son of George Randell, who was a member of the Legislative Council, and Mary Louise Smith (his father's second wife), Randell was born in Perth, where he was raised.

Ernie Hannigan

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

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.

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.

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 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 Shirlow

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

Kryptonics

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

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.

Logan Northern Australia Water Scheme

Following a change of government, the canal component of the scheme was rejected by the incoming Premier, Richard Court, who considered Perth did not have a water problem.

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.

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.

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.

Michael Swart

Born in Perth, Swart was a member of the state under-19 teams in 2000 and 2001 that were captained by Brett Jones and Shaun Marsh, respectively.

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.

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.

Paul Peos

He became the stand-in East Perth coach in the latter part of 2006, nurturing talent such as Matthew Leuenberger.

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, Tasmania

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

Preston Point

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

Ralph Simmonds

Simmonds was Foundation Dean (1992–95, 1997-2003) and Foundation Professor of Law at Murdoch University in Perth.

Regan Tamanui

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

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.

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.

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.

SCEA

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

Sebastian Östling

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Ostling competed for the second time as a crew member in the men's 470 class by finishing eleventh and receiving a berth from the ISAF World Championships in Perth, Western Australia.

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).

Thornlie, Western Australia

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

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).

William E. Nelson

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