City of Perth - Brief History

This elegant page from Perth's local government provides a short but well-written history of the city's origins, convicts, naming, mineral wealth and how a spaceship made it known as "The...

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World Facts - Perth, Australia

This US site describes the main centres of contemporary Perth as well as a good history of how the city and it's parts came into existence. In a no-graphics layout...

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Wikipedia - Perth, Australia

This site gives only a very short history of Perth from the perspective of it as a British colony, but the page contains a lot of geographical details about the...

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Western Australian Museum - History Department

This site gives the the aims of and contact information for people in the History Department of the West Australian Museum. A useful resource for anyone wishing to begin serious...

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A Short History Of Perth

This useful website gives a few hundred words about how Perth came to be first colonial outpost in Australia to be established as a free settlement. Also included is a...

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Yahoo! Travel Guide - Perth History

Providing a brief but detailed history of Perth's discovery by Europe, British colonisation and its later growth resulting from mineral resources and unscrupulous entrepreneurs.

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