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City on the Swan River, SW Australia; capital of Western Australia. Founded in 1829, the city grew rapidly after the discovery of gold at Coolgardie in the 1890s, the development of the port at Fremantle and the construction of railways to the E in the early 20th century. Industries: textiles, cement, food processing, motor vehicles. Pop. (2005) 1,484,000.

Perth

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Capital of the state of Western Australia and Australia's fourth-largest city; population (2001 est) 1,340,000. Perth is situated on the southwest coast of Australia, on the River Swan, 19 km/12 mi inland. Its port is at Fremantle , to the southwest at the mouth of the Swan. The metropolitan area of Perth, which now includes Fremantle, contains about three-quarters of the population of the state of Western Australia. Perth is a major centre of finance and of varied industry, including oil refining, electronics, food processing, steel, shipbuilding, rubber, paint, fertilizers, textiles, furniture, cement, tractors, and tourism. Perth is also an important centre for the export of primary products: refined oil, minerals, wool, wheat, meat, fruit, timber, and dairy produce. History Perth was founded as a colony in 1829 by Captain James Stirling . It received city status in 1856. The colony suffered difficulties such as a shortage of labour, poor communications, and financial problems. This…
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From Brewer's Britain and Ireland
‘copse’ or ‘thicket’, OCelt perth. The Gaelic name is Peart. A city and royal BURGH in central Scotland, on the River Tay, some 50 km (30 miles) north of Edinburgh. In the Middle Ages it was an important port. Until the 17th century the city was also known as St John's Town or St Johnstoun , as the…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Capital of the state of Western Australia and Australia's fourth-largest city; population (2001 est) 1,340,000. Perth is situated on the southwest coast of Australia, on the River Swan, 19 km/12 mi inland. Its port is at Fremantle , to the southwest at the mouth of the Swan. The metropolitan area of…
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From The Macquarie Dictionary
a city in, and the capital of, WA, in the south-western part, on the Swan River. a city in central Scotland, on the Tay River; administrative centre of Perth and Kinross; capital of Scotland from the 12th century until 1437. a town in Tasmania, south of Launceston. Perth , WA, lies in territory…
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From Historical Dictionary of Australia
Perth is the capital city of the state of Western Australia . Located on the southeastern coast on the Swan River, Perth was named after Perthshire, Scotland, the birthplace and parliamentary seat of the then British secretary of state for war and the colonies. It was founded in 1829 by Captain…
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From Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary
also Perth•shire \-ˌshir, -shər\. City, ✽ of Western Australia, Australia, on Swan River 10 mi. (16 km.) from its mouth; pop. (1991c) 80,517; commercial, financial, and transportation center of Western Australia; ships agricultural products and minerals; Univ. of Western Australia (1911), Murdoch…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Town and administrative headquarters of Perth and Kinross , central Scotland, on the River Tay, 70 km/43 mi northwest of Edinburgh; population (2001) 43,450. It is known as the ‘fair city’. Industries include dyeing, textiles, whisky distilling, and light engineering. It is an important agricultural…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(ăm'boi), city (1990 pop. 41,962), Middlesex co., NE N.J., with a harbor on Arthur Kill at the mouth of the Raritan River, which is crossed there to Staten Island, N.Y., by the Outerbridge Crossing (1928); settled 1683, inc. as a city 1718. A port of entry, Perth Amboy is a shipping center with…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
The Swan River at Perth, Western Australia....
City (pop., 2006: 1,445,078), capital of Western Australia state, Australia. Located on the Swan River 10 mi (16 km) from its mouth, Perth was settled in 1829. It developed rapidly after the discovery of goldfields around Kalgoonie in the early 1890s and the opening of Fremantle Harbour in 1897. It…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
City (pop., 2004 est.: 43,590), central Scotland. Located on the River Tay , northwest of Edinburgh , Perth was a Roman settlement; it became a royal burgh in 1210. It was the capital of Scotland until about 1452. At the Church of St. John the Baptist in 1559, John Knox denounced idolatry; the…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Industrial town and port in Middlesex County, northeastern New Jersey, USA, on the outflow of the Raritan River into Raritan Bay, at the southern end of the Arthur Kill, 26 km/16 mi south of Newark; population (1990) 42,000. It is linked to Staten Island by the Outerbridge Crossing (1928) over the…
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