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2 unusual facts about Swan River


Swan River, Itasca County, Minnesota

Swan River is located along the boundary line between Sago Township and Wawina Township.

Swan River, Minnesota

Swan River, Itasca County, Minnesota, an unincorporated community in northern Minnesota


Andrew McCleary

He sought the nomination of this party for the constituency of Swan River in the 1920 provincial election, but lost to Robert Emmond.

Barrack Street

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

Black Swan

Black Swans were first seen by Europeans in 1697, when Willem de Vlamingh's expedition explored the Swan River, Western Australia.

Bunbury Bridge

The bridge crossed the Swan River near Claise Brook and was built for passenger and freight traffic to Bunbury on the South Western Railway, and was also part of the Armadale railway line.

CKOS-TV

In March 1959, in response to CKX-TV's announcement that it would extend its signal further north, Harold Olson, director of Yorkton Television said his company's plans called for extension of CKOS' signal to the Manitoba communities of Dauphin, Swan River and Baldy Mountain.

Hardey River

The river was named in 1861 during an expedition by explorer Francis Gregory, after Swan River colonist John Wall Hardey, who was a family friend.

Kent Street, Perth

Kent Street is also the street address for Kent Street Senior High School, which was the first state government school to be built south of the Swan River.

Perth Water

Perth Water is the section of the Swan River between the Causeway to the east, and Narrows Bridge to the west – a large wide but shallow section of river on the southern edge of the central business district of Perth, Western Australia, and the northern edge of the suburb South Perth.

Railway Reserves Heritage Trail

The two earlier routes of the Eastern Railway followed closely the line of two creeks - the first route followed Nyaania Creek which is part of the Helena River catchment, while the second followed Jane Brook which joins the Swan River at Middle Swan.

St Georges Terrace

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.

Synaphea spinulosa

Prior to this, the only known visit by Europeans to an area where S. spinulosa occurs was the voyage of Dutch mariner Willem de Vlamingh, who explored Rottnest Island and the Swan River in December 1696 and January 1697 respectively.


see also

CJSB

CJSB-FM, a radio station (104.5 FM) licensed to Swan River, Manitoba, Canada

CJSB-FM

On August 19, 2010, CJSB-FM applied to add an FM transmitter in Benito, Manitoba on the frequency of 99.1 MHz to rebroadcast the programming of CJSB-FM Swan River.

Claisebrook

Claise Brook, a watercourse which discharges into the Swan River at Claisebrook Cove

East Perth Power Station

The site of East Perth was chosen because coal could easily be delivered there by rail and because the enormous quantities of cooling water required by the condensing plant could easily be drawn from the Swan River.

General view of the botany of the vicinity of Swan River

Brown then considers the biogeographic affinities of the region, emphasising the close relationship between the Swan River Colony flora and that of King George Sound and Lucky Bay on the south coast.

Perth foreshore

The foreshore of Perth Water on either the northern or southern side of the Swan River, Western Australia

Swan River Colony

Karl Marx used the Swan River Colony to illustrate a point about a shortcoming of capitalism in Das Kapital.