Fremantle has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate.

Fremantle has seen many industrial conflicts, the most famous of which occurred in 1919 when rioting broke out during " the lumpers ' strike ", resulting in one death and many injuries.

Fremantle has been represented by some significant Australian political figures.

The City of Fremantle has published a range of sheets related to the history of the port including:

The Fremantle Surf Life Saving Club has been active since the 1930s.

Fremantle also has an independent local radio station Radio Fremantle 107. 9FM.

Fremantle has subsequently served as a stopover in the Clipper, VELUX and Volvo round-the-world yacht races, and hosted the 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships, a major qualifying event for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

East Fremantle Oval has been the team's home ground since 1953.

As in many other parts of Australia, Fremantle has seen a rise in popularity of association football ( soccer ) since the arrival of Southern European immigrants.

Alternative rock / folk groups The Waifs, Little Birdy and Eskimo Joe all have connections with Fremantle, and belong to what has been dubbed the ' Freo Sound '.

Fremantle has twin-town relationships with five other cities.

Fremantle also has friendship-city relationships with three cities:

Australia has three architectural listings on UNESCO's World Heritage list: Australian Convict Sites ( comprising a collection of separate sites around Australia, including Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney, Port Arthur in Tasmania, and Fremantle Prison in Western Australia ); the Sydney Opera House ; and the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne.

Over 100 years of continued use of Fremantle Harbour by heavy shipping has erased all doubt concerning O ' Connor's technical judgement.

For over 100 years it has been represented by two strong clubs in the West Australian Football League: East Fremantle and South Fremantle.

However, since the introduction of two Western Australia-based clubs into the VFL ( later renamed the Australian Football League ) – the West Coast Eagles in 1987 and the Fremantle Football Club in 1995 – the popularity and standard of the league has decreased to the point where it is considered a feeder competition to the AFL.

The Socialist Alliance has had only one electoral success, electing Sam Wainwright to Fremantle City Council in 2009.

The University has campuses in Fremantle, Western Australia, Broome, Western Australia and in two locations in Sydney, New South Wales.

The University of Notre Dame Australia opened in Western Australia in December 1989 and now has over 9000 students on three campuses in Fremantle, Sydney and Broome.

It has a population of about 14, 300 people ( 2011 census ), of whom about 25 % were born overseas, mostly in the United Kingdom, and has a landmark high-rise hotel, the Rendezvous Observation City, originally built in 1986 for Alan Bond whose intention was to profit from anticipated accommodation demand when the 1987 America's Cup challenge was held at nearby Fremantle.

Chris Tarrant ( born 18 September 1980 ) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Collingwood Football Club, and has also played for the Fremantle Football Club.

In 2009, Fremantle model Tahnee Atkinson won the fifth cycle of Australia's Next Top Model.

On 12 March 1994, following the resignation of former Federal treasurer and member for Fremantle, John Dawkins, she won a by-election for the seat and entered federal politics.

Though there was some slight improvement in his second season, in which Fremantle won several high-profile games, the club nevertheless struggled, and finished twelfth.

Fremantle won its first three matches of a season for the first time ever ; which culminated in an upset seven-point victory over the previous season's premiers,.

1987 was a busy year as he was the skipper of the top-ranked Admiral's Cup boat Propaganda when New Zealand won the Admiral's Cup in England after being aboard New Zealand's first America's Cup challenge in Fremantle as tactician earlier in the same year.

In 1981 they kicked an Australian record 3, 352 points in 21 matches, and won their fifth flag over an inaccurate South Fremantle.

The East Fremantle Football Club was formed in 1898 and has won 29 league premierships in the West Australian Football League, making the club the 2nd most successful in Western Australia and the third most successful, to South Bunbury Football Club, with 44 SWFL premierships, in Australia.

East Fremantle's success has thus far eclipsed that of South Fremantle, who ( as of 2009 ) have won just 13 WAFL premierships.

That year, despite being held to the lowest WAFL score between 1946 and 2002 by Perth in torrential rain and genuine darkness at the WACA, the Royals won fourteen of their nineteen games and beat South Fremantle twice.

Though wingman David Pretty won the Simpson Medal, Perth failed against East Fremantle, and missed the finals in 1975.

Sorely lacking in high quality players, Subiaco between 1947 and 1956 won only thirty-eight of 198 games, and simply failed to recruit players of the quality that the two Fremantle sides, Perth and West Perth did.

In the process they won just 44 of 189 games, and in 1982 looked like a winless season before beating East Fremantle in the seventeenth round.

The Fremantle Football Club ( originally known as Unions and unrelated to either an earlier club and the current AFL club of the same name ) had won ten premierships in the fourteen years that they were in the WA Football Association ( now known as the West Australian Football League ).

They won their first premiership in 1916 and went back-to-back in 1917, both times defeating their local rivals, East Fremantle in the final and challenge final.

South Fremantle was the first WAFL club to have won 10 grand finals since World-War II.

Four of their 13 premierships were won against the club's traditional rivals, East Fremantle.

Collingwood vs Fremantle Round 8, 1999, at the MCG: Collingwood had not won a match all season.

Falling into the South Fremantle Football Club's recruitment zone, he played in the club's underage teams, and also played in the Western Australia under-18 team that won the state's first Teal Cup in 1985.

At South Fremantle, he also won " Player of the Future " and " Best First Year Player " awards in 1985 and 1986, respectively.

In the derby grand final against at Subiaco Oval the following week, East Fremantle won by 36 points in front of a crowd of 21, 000 people.

Perth won its first premiership against East Fremantle there in 1907.

In Round 19, 2008, against the Fremantle Football Club, he kicked the last goal in the final minute and won the game by four points.