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Fremantle Harbour

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Fremantle Harbour is Western Australia's largest and busiest general cargo port and an important historical site. [1]

86 relations: Albany, Western Australia, Allied submarines in the Pacific War, Anchorage (maritime), Anti-submarine indicator loop, Anti-submarine net, Barge, Bathers Beach, Fremantle, Battle of Singapore, C. Y. O'Connor, Cantonment Hill, Fremantle, Cape Peron, Carnac Island, Chamber of commerce, City of Cockburn, City of Kwinana, Cockburn Sound, Cruise ship, David Brand, Dredging, Eolianite, Export, Federation, Fremantle, Fremantle Long Jetty, Fremantle Passenger Terminal, Fremantle Port Authority, Fremantle railway station, Fremantle submarine base, Gage Roads, Garden Island (Western Australia), Gold, Government of Western Australia, HMS Driver (1840), HMS Prince of Wales (53), HMS Repulse (1916), Holocene, Import, John Coode (engineer), John Forrest, Kings Square, Fremantle, Kwinana Beach, Western Australia, Livestock, London, Midland Railway Workshops, New South Wales, North Mole Lighthouse, Orient Steam Navigation Company, Passenger ship, Perth Metropolitan Region, Pleistocene, ..., Police, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom, RMS Orion, RMS Queen Elizabeth, RMS Queen Mary, RMS Strathaird, RMS Strathnaver, Rockingham, Western Australia, Rottnest Island, Rous Head, Royal Netherlands Navy, Rubble, Sailor, Sea breeze, Sea lane, Seabed, Seagrass, Statue, Stevedore, Submarine, Success Bank, Swan River (Western Australia), Swan River Colony, Swanbourne, Sydney, The West Australian, Tonnage, Trigg, Western Australia, Victoria (Australia), Victoria Quay, Fremantle, Warehouse, Western Australia, Western Australian Museum, Wharf, Woodman Point, 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. Expand index (36 more) »

Albany, Western Australia

Albany is a port city in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, 418 km SE of Perth, the state capital.

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Allied submarines in the Pacific War

Allied submarines were used extensively during the Pacific War and were a key contributor to the defeat of the Empire of Japan.

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Anchorage (maritime)

An anchorage is a location at sea where ships can lower anchors.

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Anti-submarine indicator loop

An anti-submarine indicator loop was a submerged cable laid on the sea bed and used to detect the passage of enemy submarines.

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Anti-submarine net

An anti-submarine net or anti-submarine boom is a boom placed across the mouth of a harbour or a strait for protection against submarines.

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Barge

A barge is a flat-bottomed ship, built mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods.

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Bathers Beach, Fremantle

Bathers Beach, Fremantle also known as Whalers Beach is a section of coastline which has a written history since the European settlement of what is now called Fremantle, Western Australia.

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Battle of Singapore

The Battle of Singapore, also known as the Fall of Singapore, was fought in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II when the Empire of Japan invaded the British stronghold of Singapore—nicknamed the "Gibraltar of the East".

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C. Y. O'Connor

Charles Yelverton O'Connor CMG (11 January 184310 March 1902) was an Irish engineer who is best known for his work in Western Australia, especially the construction of Fremantle Harbour, thought to be impossible, and the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme.

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Cantonment Hill, Fremantle

Cantonment Hill is a small rise overlooking the port city of Fremantle, Western Australia.

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Cape Peron

Cape Peron is a headland at Rockingham, at the southern end of Cockburn Sound in Western Australia.

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Carnac Island

Carnac Island is a, A Class, island nature reserve about south-west of Fremantle in Western Australia.

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Chamber of commerce

A chamber of commerce (or board of trade) is a form of business network, for example, a local organization of businesses whose goal is to further the interests of businesses.

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City of Cockburn

The City of Cockburn is a local government area in the southern suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth about south of Fremantle and about south of Perth's central business district.

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City of Kwinana

The City of Kwinana is a local government area of Western Australia.

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Cockburn Sound

Cockburn Sound is an inlet of the Indian Ocean on the coast of Western Australia.

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Cruise ship

A cruise ship or cruise liner is a passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, when the voyage itself, the ship's amenities, and sometimes the different destinations along the way (i.e., ports of call), are part of the experience.

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David Brand

Sir David Brand KCMG (1 August 1912 – 15 April 1979) was an Australian politician.

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Dredging

Dredging is an excavation activity usually carried out underwater, in harbours, shallow seas or freshwater areas with the purpose of gathering up bottom sediments to deepen or widen the sea bottom / channel.

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Eolianite

Eolianite or aeolianite is any rock formed by the lithification of sediment deposited by aeolian processes; that is, the wind.

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Export

The term export means sending of goods or services produced in one country to another country.

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Federation

A federation (also known as a federal state) is a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a central (federal) government.

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Fremantle

Fremantle is a major Australian port city in Western Australia, located at the mouth of the Swan River.

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Fremantle Long Jetty

Fremantle Long Jetty was constructed in 1873 to replace the smaller South Jetty which had become too small for the large amounts of vessels entering the colony in Western Australia.

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Fremantle Passenger Terminal

The Fremantle Passenger Terminal was built on Victoria Quay, Fremantle in 1960–62, and opened in time for arrival of competitors for the Empire Games in 1962.

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Fremantle Port Authority

Fremantle Port Authority also known as Fremantle Ports is the responsible authority created under the Western Australian Port Authorities Act 1999.

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Fremantle railway station

Fremantle railway station is the terminus of Transperth's Fremantle line in Western Australia.

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Fremantle submarine base

Fremantle submarine base was the utilisation of Fremantle Harbour as a submarine base in World War II.

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Gage Roads

Gage Roads is an area in the outer harbour area of Fremantle Harbour in the Indian Ocean offshore from Fremantle, Western Australia.

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Garden Island (Western Australia)

Garden Island is a slender island about long and wide, lying about off the Western Australian coast, to which it is now linked by a man-made causeway.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element with symbol Au (from aurum) and atomic number 79, making it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally.

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Government of Western Australia

The Government of Western Australia, also referred to formally as Her Majesty's Government of Western Australia, or as the Western Australian Government or the West Australian Government, is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of Western Australia.

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HMS Driver (1840)

HMS Driver was a ''Driver''-class wooden paddle sloop of the Royal Navy.

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HMS Prince of Wales (53)

HMS Prince of Wales was a ''King George V''-class battleship of the Royal Navy, built at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, England.

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HMS Repulse (1916)

HMS Repulse was a of the Royal Navy built during the First World War.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch.

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Import

An import is a good brought into a jurisdiction, especially across a national border, from an external source.

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John Coode (engineer)

Sir John Coode (11 November 1816 – 2 March 1892), English civil engineer, known for harbour works.

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John Forrest

John Forrest, 1st Baron Forrest of Bunbury GCMG (22 August 18472 SeptemberSome sources give the date as 3 September 1918 1918) was an Australian explorer, the first Premier of Western Australia and a cabinet minister in Australia's first federal parliament.

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Kings Square, Fremantle

Kings Square, also known as King's Square, is a town square in Fremantle, Western Australia.

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Kwinana Beach, Western Australia

Kwinana Beach is an industrial suburb of Perth, Western Australia within the City of Kwinana.

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Livestock

Livestock are domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce labor and commodities such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Midland Railway Workshops

The Midland Railway Workshops in Midland, Western Australia were the main workshops for the Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR) for over 80 years.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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North Mole Lighthouse

The North Mole Lighthouse began operation in 1906 at entrance to Fremantle Harbour.

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Orient Steam Navigation Company

The Orient Steam Navigation Company, also known as the Orient Line, was a British shipping company with roots going back to the late 18th century.

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Passenger ship

A passenger ship is a merchant ship whose primary function is to carry passengers on the sea.

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Perth Metropolitan Region

The Perth metropolitan region or Perth metropolitan area is a term used to describe the administrative area and geographical extent of the Western Australian capital city of Perth and its conurbation.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Police

A police force is a constituted body of persons empowered by a state to enforce the law, to protect people and property, and to prevent crime and civil disorder.

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Postmaster General of the United Kingdom

The Postmaster General of the United Kingdom was a Cabinet-level ministerial position in HM Government.

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RMS Orion

RMS Orion was an ocean liner launched by the Orient Steam Navigation Company in 1934 and retired from the water in 1963 after carrying about 500,000 passengers.

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RMS Queen Elizabeth

The RMS Queen Elizabeth was an ocean liner operated by Cunard Line.

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RMS Queen Mary

The RMS Queen Mary is a retired British ocean liner that sailed primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line – known as Cunard-White Star Line when the vessel entered service.

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RMS Strathaird

RMS Strathaird, later TSS Strathaird, was an ocean liner of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O).

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RMS Strathnaver

RMS Strathnaver, later SS Strathnaver, was an ocean liner of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O).

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Rockingham, Western Australia

Rockingham is a city and primary centre in Western Australia south-west of the Perth city centre and south of Fremantle.

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Rottnest Island

Rottnest Island (known as Wadjemup to the local Noongar people, and otherwise colloquially known as Rotto) is an island off the coast of Western Australia, located west of Fremantle.

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Rous Head

Rous Head is a reclaimed seabed area, which is utilised as a service industrial area.

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Royal Netherlands Navy

The Royal Netherlands Navy (Koninklijke Marine, “Royal Navy”) is the navy of the Netherlands.

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Rubble

Rubble is broken stone, of irregular size, shape and texture; undressed especially as a filling-in.

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Sailor

A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who navigates waterborne vessels or assists as a crewmember in their operation and maintenance.

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Sea breeze

A sea breeze or onshore breeze is any wind that blows from a large body of water toward or onto a landmass; it develops due to differences in air pressure created by the differing heat capacities of water and dry land.

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Sea lane

A sea lane, sea road or shipping lane is a regularly used route for vessels on oceans and large lakes.

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Seabed

The seabed (also known as the seafloor, sea floor, or ocean floor) is the bottom of the ocean.

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Seagrass

Seagrasses are flowering plants (angiosperms) belonging to four families (Posidoniaceae, Zosteraceae, Hydrocharitaceae and Cymodoceaceae), all in the order Alismatales (in the class of monocotyledons), which grow in marine, fully saline environments.

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Statue

A statue is a sculpture, representing one or more people or animals (including abstract concepts allegorically represented as people or animals), free-standing (as opposed to a relief) and normally full-length (as opposed to a bust) and at least close to life-size, or larger.

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Stevedore

A stevedore, longshoreman, or dockworker is a waterfront manual laborer who is involved in loading and unloading ships, trucks, trains or airplanes.

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Submarine

A submarine (or simply sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.

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Success Bank

Success Bank is a sandbank to the north of Cockburn Sound, off Fremantle, Western Australia within the limits of the Outer Harbour of Fremantle Harbour.

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Swan River (Western Australia)

The Swan River is a river in the south west of Western Australia.

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Swan River Colony

The Swan River Colony was a British colony established in 1829 on the Swan River, in Western Australia.

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Swanbourne

Swanbourne is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Sydney

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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The West Australian

The West Australian, widely known as The West (Saturday edition: The Weekend West) is the only locally edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia, and is owned by Seven West Media (SWM), as is the state's other major newspaper, The Sunday Times.

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Tonnage

Tonnage is a measure of the cargo-carrying capacity of a ship.

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Trigg, Western Australia

Trigg is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Victoria Quay, Fremantle

Victoria Quay is a wharf on the south bank of the Swan River mouth in the Western Australian port city of Fremantle.

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Warehouse

A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods.

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Western Australia

Western Australia (abbreviated as WA) is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia.

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Western Australian Museum

The Western Australian Museum is the state museum for Western Australia.

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Wharf

A wharf, quay (also), staith or staithe is a structure on the shore of a harbor or on the bank of a river or canal where ships may dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.

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Woodman Point

Woodman Point is a headland on the west coast of Western Australia.

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1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

The 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games were held in Perth, Western Australia, from 22 November to 1 December 1962.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremantle_Harbour

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