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Fremantle is the end of the Fremantle railway line which runs from Perth to Fremantle, run by the Western Australia's Public Transport Authority.
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It is clear that Stirling had already selected the name Perth for the capital well before the town was proclaimed, as his proclamation of the colony, read in Fremantle on 18 June 1829, ended " given under my hand and Seal at Perth this 18th Day of June 1829.
* June 3, 1829 – The Swan River Colony ( later to become the cities of Perth and Fremantle ) is founded in Western Australia.
* June 3 – The Swan River Colony ( later to become the cities of Perth and Fremantle ) is founded in Western Australia.
* June 1 – The transportation of British convicts to Western Australia begins, as the transportation of British convicts to other parts of Australia is phased out, when the ship Scindian arrives in Fremantle with 75 male prisoners.
The Swan is located on the edge of the Darling Scarp, flowing downhill across the coastal plain to its mouth at Fremantle.
Fremantle () is a city in Western Australia, located at the mouth of the Swan River.
The city is named after Captain Charles Howe Fremantle, the English naval officer who had pronounced possession of Western Australia and who established a camp at the site.
The Western Australian vernacular diminutive for Fremantle is Freo.
Fremantle lies on a series of limestone hills known by the Nyungar people as Booyeembara ; the sandplain to the east is Gardoo.
The regular sea breeze is known as the Fremantle Doctor, as it provides cooling relief from the summer heat.
The Noongar people inhabited the area that is now Fremantle, which was known as Walyalup.
On 2 May 1829, Fremantle hoisted the Union Flag in a bay near what is now known as Arthur Head, and in accordance with his instructions, took formal possession " of the whole of the West Coast of New Holland " in the name of George IV of the United Kingdom.
Fremantle is renowned for its well-preserved architectural heritage, including convict-built colonial-era buildings, an old jetty and port, and prisons ; presenting a variety and unity of historic buildings and streetscapes.
The Fremantle Arts Centre is another building constructed in the 1860s by convicts from locally quarried limestone: it is a former lunatic asylum building on Ord Street, and is one of Fremantle's most significant landmarks.
For a city of small size, Fremantle is very diverse.
Fremantle is home to the main campus of the private Roman Catholic University of Notre Dame Australia.
The Central Business District is also home to a major teaching hospital, Fremantle Hospital.
Fremantle is home to other beaches such as South Beach, Leighton Beach and Port Beach.
Cottesloe Beach is located north, halfway between Fremantle and Perth.
Fremantle — along with the inner suburbs of Northbridge and Leederville — is one of Perth's major nightlife hubs.
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The thirty-seventh and last convict ship to dock at Fremantle was the Hougoumont on 10 January 1868, signalling the end of penal transportation to Australia.
After an average first half to the 2006 season, Fremantle finished the year with a club record 9 straight wins to earn themselves 3rd position at the end of the home and away season, a club record 15 wins in a year and a double chance for their September finals campaign.
It lies on the southern side of the Swan River, at the eastern end of the Perth CBD, and is connected to Fremantle and South Perth via Canning Highway ; to the Perth CBD by Graham Farmer Freeway and The Causeway ; to Belmont and Perth Airport by Great Eastern Highway and to Cannington by Shepperton Road and Albany Highway.
He played most recently and notably for the Melbourne Football Club, following a move from the Fremantle Dockers at the end of 1997.
He announced at the end of the 2010 AFL season that he would return to Melbourne for personal reasons and would not extend his contract with Fremantle for the 2011 season.
After the Fremantle Football Club took the unusual step of referring the matter to the AFL to investigate, they fined Tarrant $ 5, 000 and suspended him for three matches, with two matches suspended until the end of 2008.
However, after the end of the 2005 season, Harvey resigned as Essendon assistant coach to take up a job at Fremantle as an assistant coach to Chris Connolly.
At the end of the 2008 season Fremantle finished fourteenth on the ladder with six wins and sixteen loses.
The following year at the end of the 2009 season Fremantle finished fourteenth on the ladder yet again with six wins and sixteen loses.
To the end of the 2006 season the two clubs had met 344 times with South Fremantle winning 156 to East Fremantle's 184 wins, 4 Draws have occurred between the two sides.
He was born in Western Australia, in the small town of Yarloop, and lived in Fremantle towards the end of his life.
The ground remained relatively unchanged until 1968 when the South Fremantle Football Club acquired a portion of land freehold at the hospital end of the ground for the construction of social club, members pavilion and players changerooms.
When Stirling returned to establish the colony in 1829 he created three settlements: Fremantle as the port ; Perth as the major commercial and political centre ; and Guildford on the southern end of the Swan Valley region.
Burns Beach marks one end of a coastal nature walk extending to Fremantle.
Despite an indifferent start to the season and with immense media scrutiny on Connolly's coaching, Fremantle again stormed home, winning a club record nine games in a row and finished third at the end of the home and away season.
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Shooting for the 2006 film Last Train to Freo took place outside Fremantle railway station, and the 2010 musical film Bran Nue Dae had scenes shot in Fremantle's West End.
Fremantle railway station
Fremantle is a railway terminus, bus terminus and location of ocean and river ferry berths.
In 1881, the railway line from Perth to Fremantle came through and the community's focus shifted to the area between Fremantle Road ( Stirling Highway ) and the railway, particularly around Bay View Terrace.
Cottesloe is served by Swanbourne, Grant Street, Cottesloe, Mosman Park and Victoria Street railway stations on the Fremantle line.
The campus is adjacent to the Shenton Park railway station ( Fremantle line ).
Swanbourne is bounded by the Swanbourne Rifle Range and Cottesloe Golf Club to the north, Lake Claremont and Stirling Road to the east, the Fremantle railway line and North Street to the south, and the Indian Ocean to the west.
Perth Station including Perth Underground is the largest railway station in Perth, Western Australia, and functions as an interchange between the Transperth Trains Armadale / Thornlie, Fremantle, Joondalup, Mandurah and Midland railway lines, as well as the Transwa Australind.
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