The London Illustrated News published this photo in January 1921 ( shown at right ) This 1921 photo was also used by the Perth Western Mail in 1924 in a montage and is shown at the right below it.

There is also a collection of her fungi paintings at the Perth Museum and Art Gallery in Perth, Scotland donated by Charles McIntosh.

There is a town in the Western Australian wheatbelt approx 300 km east of Perth called Southern Cross.

Scotland is home to the international governing body for curling, the World Curling Federation, Perth, which originated as a committee of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club, the mother club of curling.

Margaret River is a town in the South West of Western Australia, located in the valley of the eponymous Margaret River, south of Perth, the state capital.

Perth is the capital of Western Australia.

Perth () is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia.

It is the fourth most populous city in Australia, with an estimated population of 1. 74 million living in the Perth metropolitan area.

Part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, the majority of the metropolitan area of Perth is located on the Swan Coastal Plain, a narrow strip between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp, a low coastal escarpment.

The Foundation of Perth 1829 by George Pitt Morison is an historically accurate reconstruction of the official ceremony by which Perth was founded.

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.

The nearest city to Perth with a population of more than 100, 000 is Adelaide, South Australia, which is away.

Author Bill Bryson states that Perth is the most remote city on earth, which he justifies by noting that the population of metropolitan Perth is greater than the combined populations of the rest of Western Australia, the Northern Territory and South Australia, west of Adelaide.

Perth is geographically closer to both Dili () and Jakarta () than Sydney (), Brisbane () or Canberra ().

The central business district of Perth is bounded by the Swan River to the south and east, with Kings Park on the western end, while the railway reserve formed a northern border.

Perth is on generally flat, rolling land – largely due to the high amount of sandy soils and deep bedrock.

The Perth metropolitan area has two major river systems ; the first is made up of the Swan and Canning Rivers.

** James IV makes the first recorded purchase of golf equipment, a set of golf clubs from a bow-maker in Perth.

They briefly stopped over in Perth, Western Australia but a planned farewell performance on a temporary stage set up on the tarmac at Perth Airport had to be cancelled amid chaotic scenes, with 4000 fans breaking through barriers and storming the runway.

Berry pickers were brought in by bus from Perth and Dundee, and large encampments were set up on farms for pickers from further afield, mainly from the Glasgow area, who made this their annual holiday.

Farmer's name was included in the 150 bronze tablets set into the footpath along St Georges Terrace, Perth that commemorate notable figures in Western Australia's history, as part of the WAY 1979 celebrations.

In 1830, John Butler, a settler, set up an inn at Freshwater Bay ( in modern-day Peppermint Grove ) to attract travellers on the road from Perth to Fremantle.

After being spotted playing at the Inglewood Hotel by Happy Mondays ' Gaz Whelan and Pete Carroll, following Happy Mondays ' Perth performance at The Big Day Out in 2000, they were the first signing to the UK-based label LittleBIGMAN Records, a label set up by Carroll and Whelan.

During the first two Tests of 1983 – 84 against Pakistan at Perth, he took only one wicket and looked set to be dropped from the Test team as well.

On November 18, 1931, construction was accelerated between Madoc and Perth as a major depression-relief project when eight contracts were set to build the new route.

Although by the end of the 1950s television had expanded to also include Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, it was estimated that less than 5 % of the residents in Melbourne, and fewer than 1 % in Sydney owned a television set, which at the time cost, on average, six to ten weeks ' wages.

They are now set to play the Rewind Festival in Perth, Scotland in July, and Henley-on-Thames, England in August, 2012.

In 1986, the VFL Commission announced plans to set up privately owned clubs based in Perth and Brisbane, motivated by the need to sell multimillion-dollar licences to save a number of Victorian clubs which were struggling financially.

* Swan Bells, a set of bells in Perth, Australia

The Reserves also claimed the minor premiership and set up a grand final clash with East Perth.

Swan Districts then cruised to a win over East Perth in the Preliminary Final to set up a Grand Final for the ages between by far the 2 best sides in the competition in 2010.

A team of police then set out after them, and they were captured on 29 September near the present-day site of the town of Westonia, about 300 kilometres north east of Perth.

On 8 August 1928, the " Southern Cross " took off from Point Cook near Melbourne and set course for Perth, a distance of over.

" The hearing was set to take place on 14 January in Perth however the BCCI dropped the charges a few days later.

Anstey arrived in Western Australia on the Yeoman in June 1887, and set up a metallurgical laboratory in Perth.

Although many of the stories do not contain references to any particular setting, it is most likely that all stories in the anthology are set in Perth, Western Australia, around the late ( post-World War II ) 20th century.

Scaddan's government became involved in numerous industries: it established a state shipping service ; started a dairy farm at Claremont and a sawmill at Manjimup ; reopened a quarry at Boya ; set up a brickworks and an agricultural implement works ; took over the South Perth ferries and Perth's trams ; started up abattoirs ; and even purchased hotels.

Mid July 1987 East-West and Skywest were sold to formally, to circumvent possible issues with government regulations, to the Perth car dealer Perron Group which sold them by the end of the month on to Bodas Pty Ltd, a company set up by Ansett's owners, Sir Peter Abeles ' TNT and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation for a reported AUD 150 million.

1845 x, pp. 44 – 45 ) and again for Charles I in 1633, by the Incorporation of Skinners and Glovers of Perth, " his Majesty's chair being set upon the wall next to the Water of Tay whereupon was a floating stage of timber clad about with birks, upon the which for his Majesty's welcome and entry thirteen of our brethren of this calling of Glovers with green caps, silver strings, red ribbons, white shoes and bells upon their legs, shearing rapiers in their hands and all other abulzements, danced our sword dance with many difficult knots and allapallajesse, five being under and five above upon their shoulders, three of them dancing through their feet and about them, drinking wine and breaking glasses.

Lord John Drummond set forth from Perth with four thousand men and heavy artillery.

Examples of narrow gauge systems are found in Japan, Switzerland, in the Brisbane ( Citytrain ) and Perth ( Transperth ) systems in Australia, in Sweden, and on the Genoa-Casella line in Italy.

After more delays, he finally achieved his seventh WSR at Lake Dumbleyung near Perth, Western Australia, on the last day of 1964, at a speed of.

Perth became known worldwide as the " City of Light " when city residents lit their house lights and streetlights as American astronaut John Glenn passed overhead while orbiting the earth on Friendship 7 in 1962.

Although the British Army had established a base at King George Sound ( later Albany ) on the south coast of western Australia in 1826 in response to rumours that the area would be annexed by France, Perth was the first full-scale settlement by Europeans in the western third of the continent.

The only contemporary information on the source of the name comes from Fremantle's diary entry for 12 August, which records that they " named the town Perth according to the wishes of Sir George Murray ".

Much of Perth was originally built on a series of freshwater wetlands running from Herdsman Lake in the west through to Claisebrook Cove in the east.

It has been estimated that up to 80 % of Perth was built on reclaimed wetlands.

The highest ever recorded temperature in Perth was on 23 February 1991, although Perth Airport recorded on the same day.

The lowest temperature recorded in Perth was on 17 June 2006.

The lowest temperature within the Perth metropolitan area was on the same day at Jandakot Airport.

A significant reduction in winter rainfall has been observed with a greater number of extreme rainfall events in the summer months, such as slow-moving storms on 8 February 1992 which brought of rain, the highest recorded in Perth, and a severe thunderstorm on 22 March 2010, which brought of rain and caused significant damage in the metropolitan area.

Six weeks after Comyn was killed in Dumfries, Bruce was crowned King of Scots by Bishop William de Lamberton at Scone, near Perth on 25 March with all formality and solemnity.

The first bhikkhuni ordination in Australia in the Theravadin tradition was held in Perth on October 22, 2009 at Bodhinyana Monastery.