Portal:Western Australia/Did you know/Archive

The following list is an archive of former entries listed in the Did you know of the Western Australia portal. For queued entries see Portal:Western Australia/Nominate/Did you know.

...that Hamel, a town located in the South West of Western Australia, owes its name to solicitor and politician Lancel Victor de Hamel, the former owner of the land where the townsite is situated?
...that Tryal Rocks is a reef off Western Australia named after the Tryall, the first shipwreck in Australian history?

...there are at least twelve large Rottnest Island shipwrecks?
...that one reason why Foundation Day is officially celebrated on June 1 is because it is the anniversary of a famous British naval victory, the Glorious First of June?
...that due to Claude de Bernales marketing of the gold fields of Western Australia in the 1930s, production increased sevenfold and employment in the industry quadrupled?
...that the Concorde visited Perth Airport on four separate occasions including it's life, including on it's 20th anniversary tour in 1989?

...that Tranby House (pictured) is the oldest surviving brick building in Perth, Western Australia?
...that the endemic Western Australian shrub Stirlingia latifolia is commonly known as "Blueboy" because wall plaster turns blue if made using sand taken from where the plant occurs?
...that East Perth Cemeteries is a now-disused complex of seven independently administered cemeteries in Western Australia where as many as 10,000 people were buried between 1830 and 1919?
...that Rear Admiral Sir Richard Trowbridge was the twenty-fifth Governor of Western Australia and the first officer of the Royal Navy to rise from boy seaman to captain of the Queen's yacht HMY Britannia?

...that Clontarf Aboriginal College in Western Australia is a former boys orphanage established by the Christian Brothers in 1901?
...that Kingsley Fairbridge established the first child migration scheme for impoverished British children which over 68 years housed and educated 1,195 boys and girls at his farm school in Pinjarra, Western Australia?
...that the Western Australian whaling industry operated for more than 140 years until the last whaling station closed in 1979?

...that the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme (pictured) which opened in Western Australia in 1903 included what was then the world's longest fresh-water pipeline at 530 km?
...that the Hartog Plate is a pewter plate which was left on remote Dirk Hartog Island off Western Australia in 1616 and is the oldest-known artefact of European exploration in Australia?
... that Calyute was an Indigenous Australian resistance leader who was involved in a series of battles with white settlers in the 1830s in colonial Western Australia?
...that the Dictionary of Western Australians and the related Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians are two biographical dictionaries which contain biographical details of over 20,000 individuals?