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Fremantle

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January 24th 2009
drove along the coast to fremantle, its realy nice there - older, the oldest western settlement in WA, the houses look like the wild west - thats called colonial apparently. we went to the round house first, where the first convicts from england were held. at 1pm they fire a cannon and drop a time-ball - it used to be done to tell the whole town what the time was - thats were the phrase "on the b ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more