Fremantle is a port city in Western Australia located at the mouth of the Swan River in the metropolitan area of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth. The Western Australian vernacular diminutive for Fremantle is Freo.
Aerial view of Fremantle
Fremantle
Completed in 1831, the Round House is the oldest public building in Western Australia. It can be seen atop Arthur Head in the painting below.
Jane Eliza Currie (wife of explorer Mark John Currie), Panorama of the Swan River Settlement, c. 1831
Western Australia is a state of Australia occupying the western third of the land area of Australia, excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. With a total land area of 2,527,013 square kilometres (975,685 sq mi), Western Australia is Australia's largest state as well as the second-largest subdivision of any country on Earth, surpassed only by the Sakha Republic in eastern Russia. As of 2021, the state has 2.76 million inhabitants—11 percent of the national total. The vast majority live in the south-west corner; 79 percent of the population lives in the Perth area, leaving the remainder of the state sparsely populated.
John Forrest was the first Premier of Western Australia.
A quokka on Rottnest Island
The black swan is the state bird of Western Australia
Western Australia's capital and largest city, Perth. Its metropolitan area is home to 75% of the state's population.